Blood in the City : Violence and Revelation in Paris, 1789-1945 /

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Burton, Richard D. E., 1946-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2001.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Violence > France > Paris > History.
Historic sites > France > Paris.
Paris (France) > History > 20th century.
Paris (France) > History > 1789-1900.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Paris à vol d'oiseau (1789-1914)
  • Violent origins : the taking of the Bastille (July 1789)
  • Killing the king : Place de la Revolution/Concorde (21 January 1793)
  • Vendôme/Invalides : the Paris of the Bonapartes (1802-1871)
  • Heart of the city : Place de Greve/Hôtel de Ville (1789-1871)
  • The miraculous medal : Rue du Bac (1830)
  • Killing the living, burying the dead : Pere-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 : Sacre-Coeur 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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