Sciolino, Elaine

Summary: "Part memoir, part travelogue, part love letter to the people who live and work on a magical street in Paris. Elaine Sciolino, the former Paris bureau chief for the New York Times, invites us on a tour of her favorite Parisian street, offering an homage to street life and the pleasures of Parisian living. 'I can never be sad on the rue des Martyrs,' Sciolino explains, as she celebrates the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2016

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Riding, Alan.

Summary: Throughout this penetrating and unsettling account, Riding keeps alive the quandaries facing many of these artists. Were they "saving" French culture by working? Were they betraying France if they performed before German soldiers or made movies with Nazi approval? Was it the intellectual's duty to take up arms against the occupier? Then, after Paris was liberated, what was deserving punishment...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010

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Darnton, Robert

Summary: "When a Parisian crowd stormed the Bastille in July 1789, it triggered an event of global consequence: the overthrow of the monarchy and the birth of a new society. Most historians account for the French Revolution by viewing it in retrospect as the outcome of underlying conditions such as a faltering economy, social tensions, or the influence of Enlightenment thought. But what did Parisians...

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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2024

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DeJean, Joan E.

Summary: Explains how Paris became a modern city, from the urban designs of the seventeenth century, to its transformation to a city of parks and boulevards, to its emergence as a cultural center of art and wealth by the mid-nineteenth century.

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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014

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Roth, Joseph

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2003

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Hewitt, Catherine

Summary: "Comtesse Valtesse de la Bigne was a celebrated nineteenth-century Parisian courtesan. She was painted by Manet and inspired Emile Zola, who immortalized her in his scandalous novel Nana. Her rumored affairs with Napoleon III and the future Edward VII kept gossip columns full. But her glamorous existence hid a dark secret: she was no Comtesse. She was born into abject poverty, raised on a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LA BIGNE, VALTESSE de, HEW

Hoban, Sarah.

Summary: Explores daily life in Paris, from the time of its early settlement in the seventh century B.C. through the Middle Ages up to two world wars and after.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Runestone Press 2001

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Rappaport, Helen

Summary: "From Helen Rappaport, the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanov Sisters comes After the Romanovs, the story of the Russian aristocrats, artists, and intellectuals who sought freedom and refuge in the City of Light. Paris has always been a cityof cultural excellence, fine wine and food and the latest fashions. But it has also been a place of refuge for those fleeing persecution,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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