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100 1 $aHorne, Alistair.
245 10 $aSeven ages of Paris /$cAlistair Horne.
246 3 $a7 ages of Paris
250 $a1st Vintage books ed.
260 $aNew York :$bVintage Books,$c2004.
300 $axvii, 458 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations (some color) ;$c21 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 428-436) and index.
505 0 $aForeword by Maurice Druon -- Preface -- A note on money -- Introduction : From Caesar to Abelard -- Age One 1180-1314 : Philippe Auguste -- Sunday at Bouvines ; Capital city ; The Templars' curse -- Age two 1314-1643 : Henri IV -- Besieged ; Worth a mass ; Regicide, regent and Richelieu -- Age three 1643-1795 : Louis XIV -- The move to Versailles ; A building boom ; Death of the Ancien Regime -- Age four 1795-1815 : Napoleon -- Empire and reform ; The most beautiful city that could ever exist ; Downfall of an empire -- Age five 1815-1871 : The Commune -- Constitutional monarchy and revolt ; The Second empire ; L'Annee terrible -- Age six 1871-1940 : The Treaty of Versailles -- Belle Epoque ; The Great War ; The Phoney peace -- Age seven 1940-1969 : De Gaulle -- The occupation ; I was France ; Les Jours de Mai -- Epilogue : Death in Paris--the Pere Lachaise Cemetery.
520 $aAn unprecedented history of Paris -- the result of a 25-year labor of love undertaken by the renowned English historian. Beginning his narrative in the 12th century and ending in the mid-20th, Alistair Home divides the city's history into seven ages: the Medieval Paris of Abelard and Heloise and of Philip Augustus, who made the city into the intellectual capital of Europe; Renaissance Paris under the first Bourbon king, Henry of Navarre, who proclaimed the city worth a mass; the glittering 18th-century capital of Louis XIV -- the Sun King -- and Louis XV; revolutionary and Napoleonic Paris, a place both of splendor and of terror and tribulation; the 19th-century city of the Commune, the Exhibition, and the Bloody Week of 1871; the Paris of La Belle Epoque and the cultural ferment that lasted until the outbreak of war in 1914; and, finally, occupied Paris, from its worldshattering fall to the Germans in 1940 to its joyful liberation at the end of World War II. Horne's telling of the story of Paris is as impassioned as it is comprehensive, as anecdotal as it is historically informed. A landmark history of the city, and a delight for anyone who has fallen under its indelible spell.
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