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  • Published: 4 June 2007
  • ISBN: 9780141011134
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 528
  • RRP: $39.99
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Paris




This authoritative yet juicy history book does for Paris what Peter Ackroyd's London: The Biography did for London - it is essential reading for any visitor to Paris

Paris is the city of light and the city of darkness - a place of ceaseless revolution and reinvention that for two thousand years has drawn those with the highest ideals and the lowest morals to its teeming streets.

In Andrew Hussey's wonderful book we encounter the myriad citizens whose stories have shaped Paris: the nineteenth-century flaneurs aimlessly wandering Haussman's new streets; survivors and victims of ravaging plagues; the builders of Notre Dame Cathedral; those who turned the River Seine red with blood on St Bartholomew's Day; and the many others whose lives have imprinted themselves on a city that has always aroused strong emotions.

  • Published: 4 June 2007
  • ISBN: 9780141011134
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 528
  • RRP: $39.99
Categories:

About the author

Andrew Hussey

Andrew Hussey was born in Liverpool in 1963. He has written for the Independent on Sunday, the Times Literary Supplement, the London Review of Books and other publications. He is the author of The Game of War a biography of Guy Debord.

Praise for Paris

Fascinating . . . A vivid sans-culottes history, from the street up

David Starkey

Outrageously readable . . . a fascinating riot of a book

Simon Sebag-Montefiore

Fascinating . . . A vivid sans-culottes history, from the street up

David Starkey

Magnificent and entertaining . . . riveting

Jason Burke, Observer