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Blood in the city : violence and revelation in Paris, 1789-1945

Author: Richard D E Burton
Publisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2001.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Richard D E Burton
ISBN: 0801438683 9780801438684
OCLC Number: 46353319
Description: xv, 395 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents: Paris à vol d'oiseau (1789-1914) --
Violent origins : the taking of the Bastille (July 1789) --
Killing the king : Place de la Révolution/Concorde (21 January 1793) --
Vendôme/Invalides : the Paris of the Bonapartes (1802-1871) --
Heart of the city : Place de Grève/Hôtel de Ville (1789-1871) --
The miraculous medal : Rue du Bac (1830) --
Killing the living, burying the dead : Père-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 : Sacré-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.
Responsibility: Richard D.E. Burton.
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