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Joan DeJean · 307 pages
In this compelling portrait of a city in transition, Joan DeJean shows that by 1700 Paris had become the capital that would transform forever our conception of the city and of urban life.
Metronome: A History of Paris from the Underground Up
Lorant Deutsch · 336 pages
The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism
Ross King · 448 pages
Chronicles the origins of Impressionism against the backdrop of the artistic and cultural events of the nineteenth century as exemplified in the work of two artists--Ernest Meissonier and Edouard Manet.
When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-1944
Ronald C. Rosbottom · 496 pages
The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
David McCullough · 733 pages
This is the inspiring and, until now, untold story of the adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, architects, and others of high aspiration who set off for Paris in the years between 1830 and 1900, ambitious to excel in their work. Most had never left home, never experienced a different culture. None had any guarantee of success. That they achieved so much for themselves and t
Is Paris Burning?
Larry Collins, Dominique Lapierre · 385 pages
**Is Paris Burning?** Is a 1965 book by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre telling the story of the Liberation of Paris during the Second World War. The book examines the military and political actions surrounding the events of late August 1944 around Paris and how these events unfolded. The title is taken from the question reportedly asked by Adolf Hitler following his order to destroy the city
Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris
Graham Robb · 421 pages
This is the Paris you never knew. From the Revolution to the present, Graham Robb has distilled a series of astonishing true narratives, all stranger than fiction, of the lives of the great, the near-great, and the forgotten. A young artillery lieutenant, strolling through the Palais-Royal, observes disapprovingly the courtesans plying their trade. A particular woman catches his eye; nature takes
Paris: The Secret History
Andrew Hussey · 498 pages
"Spanning Paris's history from the earliest days to the present, this book traces the city's story through kings and queens, revolutions and wars, massacres and plagues. But it also brings Paris's fabled outsiders alive - vagabonds, immigrants, prostitutes and criminals, whose experiences are markedly different from those related in official histories." "Paris itself is like a palimpsest: the very
Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris
David King · 424 pages
Death in the City of Light is the gripping true story of a brutal serial killer who unleashed his own reign of terror in Nazi-occupied Paris. As decapitated heads and dismembered body parts surfaced in the Seine, Commissaire Georges-Victor Massu, head of the Brigade Criminelle, was tasked with traking down the elusive murderer in a twilight world of Gestapo, gangsters, Resistance fighters, pimps,
Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved, and Died Under Nazi Occupation
Anne Sebba · 457 pages
"What did it feel like to be a woman living in Paris from 1939 to 1949? These were years of fear, power, aggression, courage, deprivation and secrets until--finally--renewal and retribution. Even at the darkest moments of Occupation, with the Swastika flying from the Eiffel Tower and pet dogs abandoned howling on the streets, glamour was ever present. French women wore lipstick. Why? It was women
The Banquet Years: The Origins of the Avant-Garde in France, 1885 to World War I
Roger Shattuck · 397 pages
The modernism of our times explained through a study of four significant men.
Avenue of Spies: A True Story of Terror, Espionage, and One American Family's Heroic Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Paris
Alex Kershaw · 286 pages
Brings to life the true story of an American doctor and his family in Paris, and his heroic espionage efforts during World War II. Exclusive Avenue Foch was Paris's hotbed of spies, secret police, informers, and Vichy collaborators. So when the couple at number 11--American physician Sumner Jackson and his Swiss-born wife Toquette--joined the French resistance, they knew the stakes were extraordin
Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King
Antonia Fraser · 416 pages
The self-proclaimed Sun King, Louis XIV ruled over the most glorious and extravagant court in seventeenth-century Europe. Now, Antonia Fraser goes behind the well-known tales of Louis's accomplishments and follies, exploring in detail his intimate relationships with women. The king's mother, Anne of Austria, had been in a childless marriage for 22 years before she gave birth to Louis XIV. A devout
Americans in Paris: Life and Death under Nazi Occupation 1940-1944
Charles Glass · 524 pages
"Nearly 30,000 Americans lived in or near Paris before the Second World War. Those who refused to leave were, paraphrasing Dickens, the best and the worst of America. Like the French, some collaborated, other resisted. The Germans forced some into slave labour. At least one was taken back to the United States to face a trial for treason. Americans in Paris under the occupation were among the most
Paris: After the Liberation 1944-1949
Antony Beevor, Artemis Cooper · 436 pages
And the Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris
Alan Riding
On June 14, 1940, German tanks rolled into a silent and deserted Paris. Eight days later, a humbled France accepted defeat along with foreign occupation. The only consolation was that, while the swastika now flew over Paris, the City of Light was undamaged. Soon, a peculiar kind of normality returned as theaters, opera houses, movie theaters and nightclubs reopened for business. This suited both c
A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America
Stacy Schiff · 508 pages
Paris, Paris: Journey into the City of Light
David Downie · 304 pages
Presents a guide to the districts of Paris, describing the history, buildings, landscape, social customs, and people of the city in each section.
The Days of the French Revolution
Christopher Hibbert · 351 pages
A narrative history of the French Revolution from the meeting of the Estates General at Versailles in 1789 to Napoleon's entry into Paris.
In Montmartre
Sue Roe · 384 pages
When young Pablo Picasso arrived in Paris in October 1900 he made his way up the hillside of Montmartre ... The real revolution in the arts first took place not, as is commonly supposed, in the 1920s to the accompaniment of the Charleston, black jazz and mint juleps but more quietly and intimately, in the shadow of the windmills-- artificial and real-- and in the cafes and cabarets of Montmartre d
The Lost King of France: How DNA Solved the Mystery of the Murdered Son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
Deborah Cadbury · 336 pages
The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss
Edmund de Waal · 368 pages
Traces the parallel stories of nineteenth-century art patron Charles Ephrussi and his unique collection of 360 miniature netsuke Japanese ivory carvings, documenting Ephrussi's relationship with Marcel Proust and the impact of the Holocaust on his cosmopolitan family.
Paris to the Past: Traveling through French History by Train
Ina Caro · 400 pages
Through twenty-five one-day train trips, the author describes outings spanning seven hundred years of French history, including Orléans, Versailles, Place de la Concorde, and Saint-Denis.