Panorama Of Paris

Author : Jeremy Popkin
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271043036
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Panorama of Paris written by Jeremy Popkin and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Panorama of Paris offers English-language readers an introduction to one of the forgotten masterpieces of French literature, Louis-Sébastien Mercier's twelve-volume Le Tableau de Paris (published from 1781 to 1788), an important and original work that helped shape many kinds of French writing. Colorfully written, the text provides a fascinating portrait of everyday life in Paris on the eve of the French Revolution, describing the interactions of workers, street peddlers, prostitutes, police spies, actresses, noblemen, parish priests, servants, and criminals. Based on Helen Simpson's lively 1933 abridged translation, this edition includes seven newly translated chapters and an introduction by Jeremy D. Popkin. Earlier authors had described Paris's monuments and the lives of its wealthy elites, but Mercier was the first to try to capture in words the texture of its everyday life. His text, contemporary with Rousseau's Confessions, is the first attempt to write the autobiography of a unique urban community. His writing deeply influenced Balzac and other nineteenth-century French novelists and continues to serve as a major source of social and cultural history for French historians. Panorama of Paris will fascinate all lovers of Paris and its history. It should be of special interest to students of French literature and history, and to anyone interested in the origins of modern attitudes toward city life.

Author : Louis-Sébastien Mercier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Panorama of Paris written by Louis-Sébastien Mercier and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520323009
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paris as Revolution written by Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In nineteenth-century Paris, passionate involvement with revolution turned the city into an engrossing object of cultural speculation. For writers caught between an explosive past and a bewildering future, revolution offered a virtuoso metaphor by which the city could be known and a vital principle through which it could be portrayed. In this engaging book, Priscilla Ferguson locates the originality and modernity of nineteenth-century French literature in the intersection of the city with revolution. A cultural geography, Paris as Revolution "reads" the nineteenth-century city not in literary works alone but across a broad spectrum of urban icons and narratives. Ferguson moves easily between literary and cultural history and between semiotic and sociological analysis to underscore the movement and change that fueled the powerful narratives defining the century, the city, and their literature. In her understanding and reconstruction of the guidebooks of Mercier, Hugo, Vallès, and others, alongside the novels of Flaubert, Hugo, Vallès, and Zola, Ferguson reveals that these works are themselves revolutionary performances, ones that challenged the modernizing city even as they transcribed its emergence. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994.

Author : Bernard Comment
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 9781861891235
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Panorama written by Bernard Comment and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Bernard Comment examines the wide variety of panoramas featuring both the old and the new worlds. Included among views of cities are Robert Baker's View of Edinburgh and depictions of Paris, Moscow and Lima.

Author : William Slattery Lieberman
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 0810943654
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Painted Panorama written by William Slattery Lieberman and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2000-03 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first half of the 20th century, Paris was the undisputed centre of the art world. This book showcases 115 works from that period chosen for an exhibition at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Author : Bill Carr
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0557259258
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paris in Panorama written by Bill Carr and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-01-19 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book filled with fresh and exciting images in portrait and panorama of Paris, Normandy and the Loire Valley.Come along for the journey!

Author : Lindsey Tramuta
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1683350146
Total Pages : 535 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Paris written by Lindsey Tramuta and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[Tramuta] draws back the curtain on the city’s hipper, more happening side—as obsessed with coffee, creativity, and brunch as Brooklyn or Berlin.” —My Little Paris The city long-adored for its medieval beauty, old-timey brasseries, and corner cafés has even more to offer today. In the last few years, a flood of new ideas and creative locals has infused a once-static, traditional city with a new open-minded sensibility and energy. Journalist Lindsey Tramuta offers detailed insight into the rapidly evolving worlds of food, wine, pastry, coffee, beer, fashion, and design in the delightful city of Paris. Tramuta puts the spotlight on the new trends and people that are making France’s capital a more whimsical, creative, vibrant, and curious place to explore than its classical reputation might suggest. With hundreds of striking photographs that capture this fresh, animated spirit—and a curated directory of Tramuta’s favorite places to eat, drink, stay, and shop—The New Paris shows us the storied City of Light as never before. “The author’s vibrant and precise command of English frames this lively collection of insights about cultural change and stories regarding multiple chefs and merchants.” —Forbes “As the culinary scene in Paris evolves, a new palate of flavors and styles of eating have emerged, redefining what is ‘French cuisine.’ The New Paris documents these changes through the lens of bakers, coffee roasters, ice cream makers, chefs, and even food truck owners. A thoughtful, and delicious, look at how Paris continues to delight and excite the palates of visitors and locals.” —David Lebovitz, author of My Paris Kitchen

Author : Sarah McMenemy
Publisher : Candlewick Press (MA)
ISBN 13 : 9780763653538
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book London written by Sarah McMenemy and published by Candlewick Press (MA). This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enticing slipcased 10-foot, 3D foldout of London's most celebrated sites, including the Tower of London, the Tower Bridge, and the Houses of Parliament. Full color.

Author : Dominique Ehrhard
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 078933688X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paris Pop-up written by Dominique Ehrhard and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebration of the monuments, landmarks and other sites that make Paris unmistakable from any other world city in a fun, interactive pop-up book format A selection of the city's most iconic monuments, landmarks, and architectural wonders unfold in seven pop-ups contained in a charming pint-sized package making it an easy impulse purchase. Easy to tuck in a bag or a pocket, this book is truly the perfect keepsake for tourists as well as the ideal gift for anyone who wants to share their love of the world's favorite city - Paris. Each spread delivers an iconic building or monument accompanied by a two page spread of text provifing the historical background and cultural significance of the structure depicted by the pop-up. The package is designed with a retro feel like travel guides from the past lending it a nostalgic charm. This elegant, charming little book is the ideal gift or souvenir for anyone who wishes a keepsake of a visit to Paris. Represented as pop-ups are the most beautiful classic architectural sites of Paris: Arc de Triomphe, Eiffel Tower, Hôtel des Invalides, the Louvre, Notre Dame, Place des Vosges, Centre Pompidou, and Sacré-Coeur. Artist Dominique Ehrhard has conceived a one of a kind work that will delight all ages.

Author : Vanessa R. Schwartz
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520221680
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spectacular Realities written by Vanessa R. Schwartz and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An exciting, innovative, and significant work. The author points to how the crowd experience transcended class and gender divisions and was transformed from acts of collective violence into acts of collective consumption."—Michael B. Miller, author of Shanghai on the Métro