Showing Paris: The Secret History by Andrew Hussey

Paperback. Pub Date: 2007 Pages: 544 Publisher: Penguin Paris is the City of Light and the City of darkness - a place of ceaseless revolution and based Reinvention that for two thousand years has drawn those with the HIGHEST Ideals and the lowest morals to its teeming streets. In Andrew Hussey's wonderful book we encounter the myriad citizens whose stories have shaped Paris: the nineteenth-century flaneurs aimlessly wandering Haussman's new streets; survivors and victims of ravaging plagues; the builders of Notre Dame Cathedral; those who turned the River Seine red with blood on St Bartholomew's Day; and the many others whose lives have imprinted themselves on a city that has always aroused strong emotions.