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Paris: The Biography of a City
Colin Jones

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Paris: The Biography of a City

Viking Adult (Apr 21, 2005)
9780670033935
| Hardcover
592 pages | 5.9 x 9.4 inch | English
Dewey 944.361
LC Classification DC707 .J66 2005
LC Control No. 2004053608

Subject

  • History / Europe / France
  • History / General
  • Paris (France)

Plot

A history of the "city of lights" profiles it as one of the world's most culturally significant locales, in an accessible volume that covers such events as Paris's settlement at the end of the Stone Age, its role in numerous social and political revolutions, its survival of the Middle Age plague, and the cultural and architectural achievements of the Impressionist era. 25,000 first printing.