The Invention of Paris (e-book) (used book) | Eric Hazan | bookbook.eu

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A radical guide to Paris through art, literature and revolution.

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.