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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Reader, Keith (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.