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Selected Bibliography of Paris


Paris, General Histories

    Bailey, William G. Americans in Paris, 1900 - 1930: A Selected, Annotated Bibliography. Westport: Greenwood, 1989.

    Balon, Hilary. The Paris of Henri IV: Architecture and Urbanism. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995.

    Barclay, Steven and Barrows, Annie, eds. A Place in the World Called Paris. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1994. [Anthology of evocative descriptions of Paris by 20th century writers. Foreword by Susan Sontag].

    Beevor, Antony and Cooper, Artemis. Paris After the Liberation, 1944- 1949. New York: Doubleday, 1994.

    Bennett, Arnold. Paris Nights and Impressions of Places and People.New York: Doran, 1913.

    Berlanstein, Lenard R. The Working People of Paris, 1871 - 1914. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1985.

    Bernier, Olivier. Fireworks at Dusk: Paris in the Thirties. New York: Little, Brown, 1993.

    Burchell, S.C. Imperial Masquerades: The Paris of Napoleon III. New York: Atheneum, 1971.

    Cameron, Robert and Pierre Salinger. Above Paris. San Francisco: Cameron, 1984 [Color aerial photos of Paris neighborhoods and landmarks].

    Cartier-Bresson, Henri. A Propos de Paris. Boston: Bulfinch, 1994. [130 black and white photos taken over 50 years]

    Chelminski, Rudolph. Great Cities: Paris. Amsterdam: Time-Life, 1977.

    Chevalier, Louis. The Assassination of Paris. Translated by David Jordan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. [Originally published in 1977 as L'assassinat de Paris].

    Cole, Robert. A Traveller's History of Paris. New York: Interlink, 1994.

    Deedes-Vincke, Patrick. Paris: the City and its Photographers. Boston: Bulfinch, 1992.

    Edwards, Stewart. The Paris Commune, 1871. Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1971.

    Edwards. Stewart. The Communards of Paris, 1871. Ithaca: Cornell, 1973.

    Evenson, Norma. Paris: A century of Change, 1878 - 1978. New Haven: Yale, 1979. [heavily illustrated history documenting a century of urban change].

    Farge, Arlette and others. The Vanishing Children of Paris: Rumor and Politics Before the Revolution. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991.

    Farr, Evelyn. Before the Deluge: Parisian Society in the Reign of Louis the Sixteenth. Chester Springs [PA]: Peter Owen, 1994.

    Friedrich, Otto. Olympia: Paris in the Age of Manet. New York: HarperCollins, 1992.

    Ganetti, Nicolai. The Rooftops of Paris. London: Peebles, 1976.

    Glyn, Anthony. The Seine. New York: Putnams, 1966.

    Green, Julian. Paris: Bilingual Edition. New York: Boyars, 1993. (18 essays in English and French about different parts of the city).

    Hemingway, Ernest. The Moveable Feast. (Granada Paperbacks).

    Hobson, Charles. Parisian Encounters; Great Loves and Passions. San Francisco: Chroncile, 1994. [The lives of several famous lovers are described, including Rodin and Camille, Henry Miller and Anais Nin, and Georges Sand and Chopin].

    Horne, Alistair. The Fall of Paris: the Siege and the Commune, 1870- 1871. New York: St Martin's, 1965.

    Isherwood. Robert M. Farce & Fantasy: Popular Entertainment in Eighteenth Century Paris. New York: Oxford, 1986.

    Kete, Kathleen. The Beast in the Boudoir: Petkeeping in Nineteenth Century Paris. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1994.

    Lottman, Herbert R. The Fall of Paris: June, 1940. New York: HarperCollins, 1992.

    Loyrette, Henri. Gustave Eiffel. New York: Rizzoli, 1985. (includes a chapter on the influence of the Tower on artists and the development of the tower as icon for France and Paris.)

    Maspero, Francois. Roissy Express: A Journey Through the Paris Suburbs. Translated by Paul Jones. London: Verson, 1994.

    Melly, George. Paris and the Surrealists. London: Thames and Hudson, 1992.

    Morton, Brian. Americans in Paris: An Anecdotal Street Guide to the Homes and Haunts of Americans from Jefferson to Capote. New York: Quill, 1986.

    Pardailhe-Galabrun, Annik. The Birth of Intimacy: Privacy & Domestic Life in Early Modern Paris. Jocelyn Phelps, Translator. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992.

    Prendergast, Christopher. Paris and the Nineteeth Century. London: Blackwell, 1995.

    Pinkney, David. Napoleon III and the Rebuilding of Paris. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1958.

    Reid, Donald. Paris Sewers and Sewermen: Realities and Representations. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993.

    Rifkin, Adrian. Street Noises: Studies in Parisian Pleasures, 1900- 1940. New York: Saint Martin's, 1993.

    Roche, Daniel.The People of Paris: An Essay on Popular Culture in the 18th Century. Translated by Marie Evans. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987. [Originally published in 1981 as La Peuple de Paris]

    Roelker, Nancy. One King, One Faith: the Parlement of Paris and the Religious Reformations of the Sixteenth Century. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.

    Rood, Karen Lane, ed. American Writers in Paris, 1920-1939. Detroit: Gale, 1980.

    Rosenblum, Mort. The Secret Life of the Seine. Reading (MA): Addison-Wesley, 1994.

    Schulkind, Eugene,ed. The Paris Commune of 1871: the View from the Left. New York: Grove, 1974.

    Shattuck, Roger. The Banquet years: The Arts in France 1885-1918: Alfred Jarry, Erik Satie, Henri Rousseau, Guillaume Apollinaire. London: Faber, 1958.

    Siegel, Jerrold. Bohemian Paris:Culture, Politics, and the Boundaries of Bourgeois Life, 1830-1930. New York: Viking Penguin, 1986.

    Steele, Valerie. Paris Fashion: A Cultural History. New York: Oxford, 1988.

    Vallois, Thirza. Around and About Paris. London: Iliad Books.
    Vol 1: From the Dawn of Time To The Eiffel Tower; Arrondissements 1 - 7 (pub. 1995)
    Vol 2: From the Guillotine to The Bastille Opera; Arrondissements 8 - 12 (pub. 1996)
    Vol 3: New Horizons: Haussmann's Annexation; Arrondissements 13 - 20 (pub. 1997)

    Willms, Johannes. Paris: From 1789 to the Belle Epoque. Translated by Eveline L. Kanes. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1995. Wright, Gordon. Notable or Notorious: A Gallery of Parisians. Cambridge: Harvard, 1991. [ includes biographies of Charles Peguy, Diana Vaughan, Juliette Adam, Allan Kardec, Eugene Sue and many others].

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