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Paris arouses strong emotions. In its long and vast history, it has been variously represented as a prison, a paradise and a vision of hell. It has also been characterised as a beautiful woman, a sorceress and a demon. As Andrew Hussey shows in this remarkable book, literature is an accurate reflection of daily life: Paris really is made up of violently different spaces and multiple personalities, always at odds with each other and often in noisy collision. It has been like this for nearly two thousand years.

Like Peter Ackroyd's biography of London, Andrew Hussey's book on Paris makes no claim to be a definitive history. Instead, it is an account of the city's history from the point of those who experienced it - its citizenry. The city itself is like a palimpsest: the very stones and street names allude to its often violent and turbulent past. It is a city of secret adventures, of hidden meanings which, on journeys from royal palaces to bars, brothels and opium dens, this book uncovers. Covering two thousand years of Paris's history, this is a sweeping, vivid portrait of an endlessly fascinating city.

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'Brilliantly engaging' -- Independent

'Delightful and enterprising ... this book is endlessly informative and entertaining, with a story on every page' -- Peter Ackroyd, The Times

'Fascinating . . . greatly readable' -- Daily Express

'Magnificent and entertaining . . . More than 400 acute, riveting pages full of thousands of colourful characters, references, details and colours' -- Jason Burke, The Observer

'Masterly. Fragments of sinister trivia and captivating alternative histories bob up on every page . . . passionately entertaining' -- Independent on Sunday

'Vivid, informed, delectably readable . . . an enlightened introduction to the city's best-kept secrets. No visitor to France should go without it' -- Sunday Times

‘Fascinating . . . A vivid sans-culottes history, from the street up. Hussey reveals the City of Light’s myriad dark secrets’ -- David Starkey

‘Outrageously readable, impressively researched, shockingly violent alternative history of Paris . . . A fascinating riot of a book’ -- Simon Sebag-Montefiore
About the Author:
Andrew Hussey was born in 1963. He first came to Paris in the late 1970s, fired up by the punk revolution in his home town of Liverpool and a with a thirst for anarchy and adventure. His first taste of Paris was busking in the metro: he was hooked. He has since lived and worked in Manchester, Lyons, Paris, Aberystwyth, Madrid and Barcelona, writing on the 90’s Parisian fashion for suicides, anarchy, radical Islam, art terrorism, Situationism, football, pornography and The Fall for a wide range of magazines and newspapers. Andrew Hussey is a contributing editor of the Observer Sports Magazine, and Head of French and Comparative Literature at the University of London in Paris.

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  • PublisherViking
  • Publication date2006
  • ISBN 10 0670913642
  • ISBN 13 9780670913640
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages512
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