Paris Noir: The Secret History of a City - Softcover

Yonnet, Jacques

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1903517486 ISBN 13: 9781903517482

Publisher: Dedalus Limited, 2007

Synopsis

In Paris Noir, Jaques Yonnet tells us about some of the darker quarters of Paris's Left Bank, centred on the Place Mauberge and the Rue Mouffetard, as he experienced it.

This book was mostly written during the 1940s, under the Occupation and in the immediate post-war period. There is a certain amount dealing with the resistance, but the main thrust of the book is a Paris that existed between the wars - and is well known from Film Noir - but has since disappeared. It concentrates on the people, a mixture of ordinary workers, tradesmen, artists, con men and criminals.

It invests the area with a sense of mystery, including occasional supernatural events; its style is remarkable and Yonnet often draws on the language of the inhabitants of the area.

About this title

About the Author:

Jacques Yonnet (1915-1974) was a French writer and poet. He fought during the Second World War in the French Resistance and was a prisoner of war. His most famous work is the Rue des Maléfices - the Chronique secrète d'une ville , translated into English as the enchanted streets of Paris. An intimate chronicle of a city , for which it was "unanimously considered as the most brilliant meteor of French literature"

About this edition

• Publisher: Dedalus Limited
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1903517486
• ISBN 13: 9781903517482
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280