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The Other Paris: The People'S City, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries download free [PDF and Ebook] by Luc Sante

The Other Paris: The People'S City, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries download free [PDF and Ebook] by Luc Sante year 2015
  • Book name: The Other Paris: The People'S City, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
  • Author: Luc Sante
  • Release date: 2015/9/19
  • Publisher: FARRAR, STRAUS & GIROUX INC
  • Language: English
  • Genre or Collection: History and Archaeology
  • ISBN: 9780374299323
  • Rating: 9.72 of 10
  • Votes: 490
  • Review by: Spencer Baldwin
  • Review rating: 9.07 of 10
  • Review Date: 2018/11/4
  • Total pages: 320
  • Includes a PDF summary of 29 pages
  • Description or summary of the book: A trip through Paris as it will never be again-dark and dank and poor and slapdash and truly bohemianParis, the City of Light, the city of fine dining and seductive couture and intellectual hauteur, was until fairly recently always accompanied by its shadow: the city of the poor, the outcast, the criminal, the eccentric, the willfully nonconforming. In The Other Paris, Luc Sante gives us a panoramic view of that second metropolis, which has nearly vanished but whose traces are in the bricks and stones of the contemporary city, in the culture of France itself, and, by extension, throughout the world.Drawing on testimony from a great range of witnesses-from Balzac and Hugo to assorted boulevardiers, rabble-rousers, and tramps-Sante, whose thorough research is matched only by the vividness of his narration, takes the reader on a whirlwind tour. Richly illustrated with more than three hundred images, The Other Paris scuttles through the knotted streets of pre-Haussmann Paris, through the improvised accommodations of the original bohemians, through the whorehouses and dance halls and hobo shelters of the old city.A lively survey of labor conditions, prostitution, drinking, crime, and popular entertainment, and of the reporters, rĂ©aliste singers, pamphleteers, and poets who chronicled their evolution, The Other Paris is a book meant to upend the story of the French capital, to reclaim the city from the bons vivants and the speculators, and to hold a light to the works and lives of those expunged from its center by the forces of profit.
  • Estimated reading time (average reader): 19H33M20S
  • Other categories, genre or collection: Social & Cultural History, Guidebooks, European History
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  • Format: Hardback
  • Approximate value: 33.75 USD
  • Dimensions: 211x241x29mm
  • Weight: 767g
  • Printed by: Not Available
  • Published in: New York, United States
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