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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.
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"Fascinating. An embarrassment of riches. One wants to visit—or revisit—Paris armed with this new knowledge and enrichment."
—The Christian Science Monitor
About the Author
Colin Jones, a professor of history at Warwick University, has written widely on the social, economic, religious, political, medical, and cultural history of France. He is the author of The Cambridge Illustrated History of France and The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon, also published by Penguin.
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- PublisherViking Adult
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0670033936
- ISBN 13 9780670033935
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages592
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