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Autore |
Reader Keith |
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Titolo |
Place de la Bastille : the story of a quartier / / Keith Reader |
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Liverpool, : Liverpool University Press, 2011 |
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1-78138-804-0 |
1-84631-678-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (viii, 184 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Historic sites - France - Paris |
France History Revolution, 1789-1799 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction : The Place de la Bastille -- "What's that poor creature doing here?" : the area and the fortress before the Revolution of 1789 -- "Thought blew the Bastille apart" : the fall of the fortress and the revolutionary years, 1789-1815 -- "The strategy of the generals of Africa shattered" : the Restoration, Orleanist and Second Republic years, 1815-1851 -- "Where is the noise of the storm that I love?" : The Second Empire from Haussmann to the Commune -- "Satan's bagpipes" : La Belle Époque's forty-three years of peace -- "Villains, stars and everybody in between" : The First War and the 'entre-deux-guerres' -- "Slicked hair and splendid sideburns" : Occupation and Liberation -- "Let's have some sun!" : post-Gaullism and the Mitterand years -- "A building, not a monument" : the construction of the Bastille Opéra -- "A real earthquake" : the impact of the Opéra on the 'quartier' -- Flânerie in the archive : the Faubourg/Bastille today. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Epicentre of the Revolution of 1789, erstwhile bastion of the skilled working-class and centre of radical agitation, along with Pigalle and Montmartre a focus for popular and raffish night-life in the early twentieth century, the Bastille area of Eastern Paris (also known as the Faubourg Saint-Antoine) is now an ethnically and socially mixed quartier which still bears the traces of its previous avatars. In a fascinating tour, Keith Reader charts the history and cultural geography of this unique area of Paris, from the fortress and prison that gave the |
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