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Parisians : an adventure history of Paris / Graham Robb.

by Robb, Graham, 1958-

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New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Co., c2010.

Paris (France) -- History -- Anecdotes.

Paris (France) -- Biography -- Anecdotes.

9780393067248 (hardcover) :

0393067246 (hardcover)

xi, 475 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), map ; 25 cm.

Departure -- One night at the Palais-Royal -- The man who saved Paris -- Lost -- Restoration -- Files of the Sûreté -- A property in Bohemia -- Marville -- Regression -- Madame Zola -- Marcel in the Métro -- The Notre-Dame equation -- A little tour of Paris -- Occupation -- Lovers of Saint-Germain-des-Prés -- The day of the fox -- Expanding the domain of the possible -- Périphérique -- Sarko, Bouna and Zyed -- Terminus : the North Col.

Napoleon Bonaparte, Marie Antoinette, Baudelaire, Baron Haussmann, the real-life Mimi of La Boheme, Proust, Charles de Gaulle--these and many more are Robb's cast of characters in a series of stories about the Paris you never knew.

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