Paris Noir (Paperback)
Language: English
Published by Dedalus Ltd, Cambs, 2025
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Paperback. In Paris Noir Yonnet tells us about some of the darker quarters of Paris on the left bank of the Seine, centred on the place Mauberge and the rue Mouffetard, as seen from his own experience. It is mainly written during the 1940s, under the Occupation and in the immediate post-war period; there is a certain amount dealing with the resistance, but the main thrust of the book is a Paris that existed between the wars - and is well known from the film noir -but has since disappeared. It concentrates on the people, rather than places, a mixture of ordinary workers, tradesmen, artists, con-men and criminals. Paris Noir will appeal to lovers of the supernatural and the bizarre. Essential reading for visitors to Paris who want to get beneath the skin of the city. AUTHOR: Storyteller, poet, traveller, racconteur, resistance fighter Jacques Yonnet(1915-1974) is one of the legendary Parisian figures of his epoch. In Paris Noir he reveals a hidden and unknown face of Paris's left bank. Written about Paris during the 1940s, this book tells us some of the darker quarters of Paris on the left bank of the Seine, centred on the place Mauberge and the rue Mouffetard, as seen from his own experience. It concentrates on the people, rather than places, a mixture of ordinary workers, tradesmen, artists, con-men and criminals. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …
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- Title
- Paris Noir (Paperback)
- Author
- Jacques Yonnet
- Publisher
- Dedalus Ltd, Cambs
- Publication year
- 2025
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1915568633
- ISBN 13
- 9781915568632
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
Yonnet portrays Paris as a character in her own right: the city is "edgy", the Seine "sulks". The geography determines the behaviour of its inhabitants, and will live on after their deaths. Certain névralgique points in the city incite Parisians to raise barricades, be it during revolutions or the Liberation of 1944. But, like François Villon and Charles Baudelaire, Yonnet conveys the fragility of things. The yarns drunkenly spun in dive bars strive to conjure away a fundamental loneliness: "men are so isolated, prisoners of their own wretched selves, that they can be unbelievably sociable".'
Gavin Bond in Scotland on Sunday
'Translated into English for the first time since its release in 1954, Yonnet's only published book is a macabre, savage account of life on Paris's Nazi-occupied Left Bank. Like Christopher Isherwood'' 1939 novel 'Goodbye to Berlin', this book sidelines conventional history in favour of anecdotal, autobiographical and brilliantly subjective snapshots of the city's marginalised 'human detritus' in a series of cinematic vignettes that straddle the real, the absurd and the supernatural...This is ultimately a unique panoramic memoir; an admiring but never sentimental love letter to the French capital destined to be loved in its turn by fans of film noir.'
Alex Barlow in Time Out *****
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