Parisians : an adventure history of Paris / Graham Robb.

Main entry:

Robb, Graham, 1958-

Title & Author:

Parisians : an adventure history of Paris / Graham Robb.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Description:

xi, 475 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-462) and indexes.
Departure -- One night at the Palais-Royal -- The man who saved Paris -- Lost -- Restoration -- Files of the Sûreté -- A property in Bohemia -- Marville -- Regression -- Madame Zola -- Marcel in the Métro -- The Notre-Dame equation -- A little tour of Paris -- Occupation -- Lovers of Saint-Germain-des-Prés -- The day of the fox -- Expanding the domain of the possible -- Périphérique -- Sarko, Bouna and Zyed -- Terminus : the North Col.

Summary:

Napoleon Bonaparte, Marie Antoinette, Baudelaire, Baron Haussmann, the real-life Mimi of La Boheme, Proust, Charles de Gaulle--these and many more are Robb's cast of characters in a series of stories about the Paris you never knew.

ISBN:

9780393067248 (hardcover)
0393067246 (hardcover)
0393339734 (paperback)
9780393339734 (paperback)

Subject:

Paris (France) History Anecdotes.
Paris (France) Biography Anecdotes.
Paris (France) Histoire Anecdotes.
France Paris.

Form/genre:

Anecdotes
Biographies.
History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 271057
Call No.: BIB 203989
Notes: hardcover
Status: Available

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