Paris: The Secret History

Paris is the city of light and the city of darkness - a place of ceaseless revolution and reinvention that for two thousand years has drawn those with the highest ideals and the lowest morals to its teeming streets.

In Andrew Hussey's wonderful book we encounter the myriad citizens whose stories have shaped Paris: the nineteenth-century flaneurs aimlessly wandering Haussman's new streets; survivors and victims of ravaging plagues; the builders of Notre Dame Cathedral; those who turned the River Seine red with blood on St Bartholomew's Day; and the many others whose lives have imprinted themselves on a city that has always aroused strong emotions.

Title - Paris: The Secret History

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Author - Andrew Hussey

ISBN 13 - 9780141011134

Imprint - Penguin Books Ltd

Publisher - Penguin Books Ltd

Date Published - 01/03/2007

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Binding Type - Paperback

Dimensions - 129 x 198 x 31mm

Weight - 362 g

Languages - English