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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779092303321

Autore

Rearick Charles <1942->

Titolo

Paris dreams, Paris memories [[electronic resource] ] : the city and its mystique / / Charles Rearick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, c2011

ISBN

0-8047-7751-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (298 p.)

Disciplina

944/.36108

Soggetti

Collective memory - France - Paris

Paris (France) Public opinion

Paris (France) History 19th century

Paris (France) History 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-272) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Paris : praised, modernized, remembered, staged, and loved : nineteenth-century foundations -- The memory of a certain "belle-epoque" (1914-c.1960) : or how the turn-of-the-century lived on beyond its time -- Postwar modernizing and the resistance of memory (1945-c.1980) -- New varieties of a "nouveau Paris" (1974-2008) -- Paris in comparison -- Contemporary Paris : images, spirit, soul, and sites -- Conclusion : to know Paris.

Sommario/riassunto

How did Paris become the world favorite it is today? Charles Rearick argues that we can best understand Paris as several cities in one, each with its own history and its own imaginary shaped by dream and memory.  Paris has long been at once a cosmopolitan City of Light and of modernity, a patchwork of time-resistant villages, a treasured heirloom, a hell for the disinherited, and a legendary pleasure dome.  Each of these has played a part in making the enchanting, flawed city of our time.  Focusing on the last century and a half,  Paris Dreams, Paris Memories makes contempo