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What is The Invention of Paris : A History in Footsteps about?
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. **
- Author
- Eric Hazan & David Fernbach
- Publisher
- Verso Books
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781781683712
- Subjects
- History, Humanities
- Rating
- 3.54 / 5 (73 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13