The Place de la Bastille
The Story of a Quartier
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
“A wonderful piece of work. Using topography to bring history, anthropology, literature, and the arts into a single focus, the book is also a guide or mode d’emploi for all who have affection for Paris and, more broadly, Gallic culture.”
"What is provocative about this text is an underlying argument that Paris cannot yet be consigned as a living museum. It is this spark which catches fire soon into the book and makes it so entertaining and accessible."—Andrew Hussey, author of Paris: the Secret History
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Place de la Bastille
1. ‘What’s that poor creature doing here?’: the area and the fortress before the Revolution of 1789
2. ‘Thought blew the Bastille apart’: the fall of the fortress and the revolutionary years, 1789–1815
3. ‘The strategy of the generals of Africa shattered’: the Restoration, Orleanist and Second Republic Years, 1815–1851
4. ‘Where is the noise of the storm that I love?’: The Second Empire from Haussmann to the Commune
5. ‘Satan’s bagpipes’: La Belle Époque’s forty-three years of peace
6. ‘Villains, stars and everybody in between’: The First War and the entre-deux-guerres
7. ‘Slicked hair and splendid sideburns’: Occupation and Liberation
8. ‘Let’s have some sun!’: post-Gaullism and the Mitterrand years
9. ‘A building, not a monument’: the construction of the Bastille Opéra
10. ‘A real earthquake’: the impact of the Opéra on the quartier
11. Flânerie in the archive: the Faubourg/Bastille today
Notes
Bibliography
Index
History: European History
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