Username or e-mail: *

Password: *

• Join the Community
• Forgot Your Password?

The Invention of Paris is a tour through the streets and history of the French capital under the guidance of radical Parisian author and publisher Eric Hazan. Hazan reveals a city whose squares echo with the riots, rebellions and revolutions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Combining the raconteur s ear for a story with a historian s command of the facts, he introduces an incomparable cast of characters: the literati, the philosophers and the artists Balzac, Baudelaire, Blanqui, Flaubert, Hugo, Maney, and Proust, of course; but also Doisneau, Nerval and Rousseau. It is a Paris dyed a deep red in its convictions. It is haunted and vitalized by the history of the barricades, which Hazan retells in rich detail. The Invention of Paris opens a window on the forgotten byways of the capital s vibrant and bloody past, revealing the city in striking new colors.

This book is on these lists:

Walking, Place, and Silence by erikcooke

All lists >>

• April 2012 Indie Next List
• March 2012 Indie Next List
• February 2012 Indie Next List