A walkers guide to Paris taking us through its past, present and possible futures.
Eric Hazan is the founder of the publisher La Fabrique and the author of several books, including the celebrated The Invention of Paris. He has lived in Paris all his life.
Praise for The Invention of Paris: "This is a wondrous book, either
to be read at home with a decent map, or carried about sur place
through areas no tourists bother with."
*Guardian*
Praise for The Invention of Paris: "Hazan is all business. He
trudges through Paris street by street, quoting what Balzac, Hugo,
Baudelaire or Kafka said about a particular spot, pointing out
where barricades were once erected and thieves gathered for
drinks."
*Financial Times*
Praise for The Invention of Paris: "Hazan's brick-by-brick account
of the city's history of strife and political posturing is
riveting"
*Publishers Weekly*
Praise for The Invention of Paris: "Hazan wants to rescue
individual moments from general forgetting and key sites from the
bland homogenization of international city development; he is also
a passionate left-wing historian seeking to rescue the truth of
Paris's revolutionary past."
*London Review of Books*
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