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Blood in the city : violence and revelation in Paris, 1789-1945
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Blood in the city : violence and revelation in Paris, 1789-1945 / Richard D.E. Burton.
ISBN
0801438683
Published
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2001.
Physical Description
xv, 395 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-387) and index.
Contents
Paris à vol d'oiseau (1789-1914)
Violent origins: the taking of the Bastille (July 1789)
Killing the king: Place de la Révolution/Concorde (21 January 1793)
Vendôme/Invalides: the Paris of the Bonapartes (1802-1871)
Heart of the city: Place de Grève/Hôtel de Ville (1789-1871)
The miraculous medal: Rue du Bac (1830)
Killing the living, burying the dead: Père-Lachaise (1804-1945)
Conversion?: Paul Claudel at Notre-Dame (Christmas 1886)
Church prowling: the back-to-front pilgrimage of Joris-Karl Huysmans (1884-1892)
Marble versus iron: Sacré-Cœur and the Eiffel Tower (1871-1914)
Operation Spring breeze: Rue des Rosiers, Vel' d'hiv', Drancy (July-August 1942)
Purging the city: Paris libre (August 1944-October 1945)
Conclusion: blood in the city, 1789-1945
Sacrificial victims: a chronology.
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