Blood in the City : : Violence and Revelation in Paris, 1789–1945 /

Blood in the City : : Violence and Revelation in Paris, 1789–1945 / / Richard D. E. Burton.

The Terror of 1793-94, the Paris Commune of 1871, the Dreyfus Affair—explosions of violence punctuated French history from the start of the Revolution until the Liberation at the close of World War II. The distinguished scholar Richard D. E. Burton here offers a stunningly original account of these...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Burton, Richard D. E.,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©2001
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (416 p.) :; 2 maps, 20 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Preface
  • 1. PARIS A VOL D'OISEAU (1789-1914)
  • 2. VIOLENT ORIGINS: The Taking of the Bastille (July 1789)
  • 3. KILLING THE KING: Place de la Révolution/Concorde (21 January 1793)
  • 4. VENDOME/INVALIDES: The Paris of the Bonapartes (1802-1871)
  • 5. HEART OF THE CITY: Place de Crève/Hotel de Ville ( 1789-1871)
  • 6. THE MIRACULOUS MEDAL: Rue du Bac (1830)
  • 7. KILLING THE LIVING, BURYING THE DEAD: Père-Lachaise (1804-1945)
  • 8. CONVERSION?: Paul Claude! at Notre-Dame (Christmas 1886)
  • 9. CHURCH PROWLING: The Back-to-Front Pilgrimage of Joris-Karl Huysmans (1884-1892)
  • 10. MARBLE VERSUS IRON: Sacré-Croeur and the Eiffel Tower (1871-1914)
  • 11. OPERATION SPRING BREEZE: Rue des Rosiers, Vel' d'Hiv', Drancy (July-August 1942)
  • 12. PURGING THE CITY: Paris Libre (August 1944-0ctober 1945)
  • 13. CONCLUSION: Blood in the City, 1789-1945
  • SACRIFICIAL VICTIMS: A Chronology
  • NOTES
  • INDEX

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