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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Sante, Lucy.     Subjects     City and town life -- France -- Paris -- History.     Poor -- France -- Paris -- History.     Working class -- France -- Paris -- History.     Criminals -- France -- Paris -- History.     Eccentrics and eccentricities -- France -- Paris -- History.     Paris (France) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.     Paris (France) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.     Paris (France) -- Social conditions.     Paris (France) -- Description and travel.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Sante, Lucy.       by title:      The other Paris / Lu...         MARC Display

The other Paris / Luc Sante. by Sante, Lucy. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015. Subjects City and town life -- France -- Paris -- History.   Poor -- France -- Paris -- History.   Working class -- France -- Paris -- History.   Criminals -- France -- Paris -- History.   Eccentrics and eccentricities -- France -- Paris -- History.   Paris (France) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.   Paris (France) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.   Paris (France) -- Social conditions.   Paris (France) -- Description and travel. ISBN:  9780374299323 (hardback) : 0374299323 (hardback) Description:  306 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm Edition:  First edition. Contents:  Capital -- Ghosts -- Pantruche -- Zone -- La Canaille -- Archipelago -- Le Business -- Saint Monday -- Show People -- Mort aux Vaches -- The Insurgents -- The Game. Requests:  0 Summary:  "A vivid investigation into the seamy underside of nineteenth and twentieth century Paris"-- "A trip through Paris as it will never be again--dark and dank and poor and slapdash and truly bohemian Paris, the City of Light. The city of the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre, of soft cheese and fresh baguettes. Or so tourist brochures would have you believe. In The Other Paris, Luc Sante reveals the city's hidden past, its seamy underside--one populated by working and criminal classes that, though virtually extinct today, have shaped Paris over the past two centuries. Drawing on testimony from a great range of witnesses--from Balzac and Hugo to assorted boulevardiers, rabble-rousers, and tramps--Sante, whose thorough research is matched only by the vividness of his narration, takes the reader on a whirlwind tour. Richly illustrated with more than three hundred images, The Other Paris scuttles through the knotted streets of pre-Haussmann Paris; through the improvised accommodations of the original bohemians; through the massive garbage dump at Montfaucon, active until 1849, in which, 'at any given time the carcasses of 12,000 horses were left to rot.' A wildly lively survey of labor conditions, prostitution, drinking, crime, and popular entertainment, of the reporters, realiste singers, pamphleteers, and poets who chronicled their evolution, The Other Paris is a book meant to upend the story of the French capital, to reclaim the city from the bon vivants and the speculators, and to hold a light to the works and days of the forgotten poor"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 944.36106 Sa Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 944.36106 Sante Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kaimuki Public Library Adult Nonfiction 944.36106 Sa Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kihei Public Library Adult Nonfiction 944.36106 Sa Checked In Add Copy to MyList Lihue Public Library Adult Nonfiction 944.36106 Sa Checked In Add Copy to MyList Mililani Public Library Adult Nonfiction 944.36106 Sa Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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