The Place de la Bastille : the story of a quartier /
Epicentre of the Revolution of 1789, erstwhile bastion of the skilled working-class and centre of radical agitation, along with Pigalle and Montmartre a focus for popular and raffish night-life in the early twentieth century, the Bastille area of Eastern Paris (also known as the Faubourg Saint-Antoi...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press,
2011.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : The Place de la Bastille
- "What's that poor creature doing here?" : the area and the fortress before the Revolution of 1789
- "Thought blew the Bastille apart" : the fall of the fortress and the revolutionary years, 1789-1815
- "The strategy of the generals of Africa shattered" : the Restoration, Orleanist and Second Republic years, 1815-1851
- "Where is the noise of the storm that I love?" : The Second Empire from Haussmann to the Commune
- "Satan's bagpipes" : La Belle Époque's forty-three years of peace
- "Villains, stars and everybody in between" : The First War and the 'entre-deux-guerres'
- "Slicked hair and splendid sideburns" : Occupation and Liberation
- "Let's have some sun!" : post-Gaullism and the Mitterand years
- "A building, not a monument" : the construction of the Bastille Opéra
- "A real earthquake" : the impact of the Opéra on the 'quartier'
- Flânerie in the archive : the Faubourg/Bastille today.