City of Light

City of Light
Rupert Christiansen
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Paperback
h200 x 135mm - 184pg
4 Mar 2021 UK
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9781838932084
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An account of the reinvention of Paris in the mid-nineteenth century as the most beautiful, exciting city in the world - a position it has never relinquished. A sparkling account of the nineteenth-century rebuilding of Paris as the most beautiful city in the world, as part of the stunning Landmark Library series. ' This really is an impressive book' Sebastian Faulks. ' Brisk, vivid and unexpectedly stirring . . . No one writes as evocatively and entertainingly about Paris as Christiansen does' Mail on Sunday . ' Every page is a pleasure, every building, every gas lamp brought shimmering to life . . . Don' t board the Eurostar without a copy' The Times . ' A wonderful book, amazingly vivid . . . But also a truly original work of scholarship' Theodore Zeldin. In 1853 the French emperor Louis Napoleon inaugurated a vast and ambitious programme of public works, directed by Georges-Eugene Haussmann, the prefect of the Seine. Haussmann' s renovation of Paris would transform the old medieval city of squalid slums and disease-ridden alleyways into a ' City of Light' - characterised by wide boulevards, apartment blocks, parks, squares and public monuments, new railway stations and department stores and a new system of public sanitation. City of Light charts a fifteen-year project of urban renewal which - despite the interruptions of war, revolution, corruption and bankruptcy - would set a template for nineteenth and early twentieth-century urban planning and create the enduring and globally familiar layout of modern Paris.
' This really is an impressive book' -- Sebastian Faulks, Sunday Telegraph ' A wonderful book, amazingly vivid . . . But also a truly original work of scholarship' -- Theodore Zeldin ' Brisk, vivid and unexpectedly stirring . . . No one writes as evocatively and entertainingly about Paris as [Christiansen] does' * Mail on Sunday * ' Every page is a pleasure, every building, every gas lamp brought shimmering to life . . . Don' t board the Eurostar without a copy' * The Times * ' A sparkling yet scholarly new book' * Country Life * ' Vivid, dramatic and tragic . . . If you are heading for Paris this summer be sure to put City of Light in your bag' * Sunday Times * ' [An] elegant and gorgeously illustrated new book' * Sunday Telegraph * ' A beautifully produced compact book, written and put together with the rare combination of expertise and love' * Engineering and Technology Magazine * ' The photographs included in Christiansen' s beautifully illustrated book [. . . ] make all this vivid, as does his lively telling of the story . . . Christiansen' s account is readable and engaging. He doesn' t judge his subject' * The Oldie. * ' Christiansen' s brisk and lively account contains excursions into the qualities of the Paris Opera House (not part of Haussmann' s plan) and late nineteenth-century French political history, but remains both learned and amusing' * Tablet. * ' A beautiful little book . . . A fascinating history of the time with many photographs and paintings' * Four Shires Magazine * ' It is attention to such detail that makes this witty, erudite historical essay on Paris' s Haussmann years such an evocative read' * The Spectator *
Rupert Christiansen is the opera critic and arts columnist for the Daily Telegraph. His books include Tales of the New Babylon: Paris in the Mid-19th Century and Romantic Affinities: Portraits From an Age 1780-1830. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1997.
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ISBN-13: 9781838932084
Published: 4 Mar 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Apollo
Publisher: Head of Zeus
Format: Paperback
Height: 200mm
Width: 135mm
Pages: 184

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