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The Balcony

Le Balcon

By:
Jean Genet
Type:
Book
Year:
2009
Language:
English
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Jean Genet's The Balcony, which premiered in 1957, is acknowledged as one of the founding plays of modern theatre: philosopher Lucien Goldmann dubbed it 'the first great Brechtian play in French literature'. In a brothel of an unnamed French city the madam, Irma, directs a series of fantastical scenarios - a bishop forgives a penitent, a judge punishes a thief, a general rides astride his horse. Outside, an uprising threatens to engulf the streets. The patrons of the brothel wait anxiously for the chief of police to arrive, but in his place comes the queen's envoy to inform the assembled that the figureheads of the establishment have been killed in the uprising. Play-acting turns to reality as the patrons don their costumes in public in an attempt to quell the insurrection. Illusion and reality, order and dissolution - these are the grand themes of The Balcony.

06. Literature - 01. French literature in translation
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Les particules élémentaires

roman

By:
Michel Houellebecq
Type:
Book
Year:
1998
Language:
French (France)
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Michel, chercheur en biologie rigoureusement déterministe, incapable d'aimer, gère le déclin de sa sexualité en se consacrant au travail, à son Monoprix et aux tranquillisants. Une année sabbatique donne à ses découvertes un tour qui bouleversera la face du monde. Bruno, de son côté, s'acharne en une quête désespérée du plaisir sexuel. Un séjour au " Lieu du Changement ", camping post-soixante-huitard tendance New Age, changera-t-il sa vie ? Un soir, une inconnue à la bouche hardie lui fait entrevoir la possibilité pratique du bonheur. Par leur parcours familial et sentimental chaotique, les deux demi-frères illustrent de manière exemplaire la société d'aujourd'hui et la quête complexe de l'amour vrai.

06. Literature - 07. Novels
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Bienvenue chez les ch'tis

By:
Dany Boon
Type:
DVD
Year:
2008
Language:
French (France)
Subtitles:
English, French (France)
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L'emmerdeur

By:
Edouard Molinaro
Type:
DVD
Year:
1973
Language:
French (France)
Subtitles:
English, French (France)
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Pouic Pouic

By:
Jean Girault
Type:
DVD
Year:
1963
Language:
French (France)
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Le Petit Nicolas

By:
Jean-Jacques Sempé
Laurent Tirard
Type:
DVD
Year:
2009
Language:
French (France)
Subtitles:
French (France)
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Les Fugitifs

By:
Francis Veber
Type:
DVD
Year:
1986
Language:
French (France), Italian (Italy), Spanish (Traditional Sort)
Subtitles:
French (France)
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Les aventures extraordinaires d'Adele Blanc-Sec

By:
Luc Besson
Type:
DVD
Year:
2010
Language:
French (France)
Subtitles:
French (France)
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L'Iliade et l'Odyssée

d'après Homère

By:
Soledad Bravi
Type:
Book
Year:
2015
Language:
French (France)
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Les aventures d'Ulysse pour revenir de Troie, en Asie Mineure, jusqu'à sa terre natale, l'île d'Ithaque, dans la mer Ionienne, à l'ouest de la Grèce. L'auteure fait revivre cette épopée sur un ton léger, piquant et contemporain à travers ses dessins pleins d'humour.

03. Graphic novels & Comics
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Paris à tout prix

By:
Reem Kherici
Type:
DVD
Year:
2013
Language:
French (France)
Subtitles:
English, French (France)
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Vengeance à La Réunion

By:
Nicolas Gerrier
Type:
Learners' Library
Year:
2012
Language:
French (France)
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CD audio inclus

05. Learners' Library / Linguistics - 06. Easy readers
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Le Mystère de la chambre jaune

By:
Gaston Leroux
Type:
Learners' Library
Year:
2003
Language:
French (France)
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CD audio inclus

05. Learners' Library / Linguistics - 06. Easy readers
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Notre Dame de Paris

By:
Victor Hugo
Type:
Learners' Library
Year:
2017
Language:
French (France)
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CD inclus

05. Learners' Library / Linguistics - 06. Easy readers
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Le Mouron Rouge

Un chevalier insaisissable

By:
Baronne Orczy
Type:
Learners' Library
Year:
2004
Language:
French (France)
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CD audio inclus

05. Learners' Library / Linguistics - 06. Easy readers
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Paris est en danger

By:
Nicolas Gerrier
Type:
Learners' Library
Year:
2014
Language:
French (France)
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CD inclus

05. Learners' Library / Linguistics - 06. Easy readers
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Selma se connecte

By:
Régine Boutégère
Type:
Learners' Library
Year:
2015
Language:
French (France)
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CD inclus

05. Learners' Library / Linguistics - 06. Easy readers
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La guerre des boutons

By:
Louis Pergaud
Type:
Learners' Library
Year:
2013
Language:
French (France)
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CD inclus

05. Learners' Library / Linguistics - 06. Easy readers

A la recherche de Tibou

By:
Didier Roland
Type:
Learners' Library
Year:
2014
Language:
French (France)
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05. Learners' Library / Linguistics - 06. Easy readers
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Des traces dans la neige!

By:
Nicolas Gerrier
Type:
Learners' Library
Year:
2006
Language:
French (France)
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05. Learners' Library / Linguistics - 06. Easy readers
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Au revoir, les enfants

By:
Louis Malle
Type:
Learners' Library
Year:
2017
Language:
French (France)
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CD inclus

05. Learners' Library / Linguistics - 06. Easy readers
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Fables

By:
Jean de La Fontaine
Type:
Learners' Library
Year:
2018
Language:
French (France)
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CD inclus

05. Learners' Library / Linguistics - 06. Easy readers
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Enigme en Périgord

By:
Lidia Parodi
Marina Vallocco
Type:
Learners' Library
Year:
2006
Language:
French (France)
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CD audio inclus.

05. Learners' Library / Linguistics - 06. Easy readers
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La Tulipe noire

By:
Dumas, Alexandre
Type:
Book
Language:
French (France)
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05. Learners' Library / Linguistics
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Les revenants - Saison 2

The Returned - Series 2

By:
Fabrice Gobert
Type:
DVD
Year:
2015
Language:
French (France)
Subtitles:
English
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01. DVDs

Ma vie de Courgette

By:
Claude Barras
Type:
Book
Year:
2016
Language:
French (France)
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Adapté du film MA VIE DE COURGETTE, cet album retrace le parcours initiatique d'un garçon attachant, hors du commun et plein de ressources ! Courgette, c'est un surnom un peu bizarre, mais forcément on y tient quand c'est votre mère qui vous l'a donné et qu'elle vient de mourir par accident. Au Foyer des Fontaines où il arrive, Courgette va faire la connaissance d'autres enfants un peu comme lui, parfois durs au dehors mais tendres à l'intérieur. Avoir une bande de copains, parler de la vie et faire des blagues, il y en a des choses à découvrir et à apprendre ensemble ! Et pourquoi pas, même, être heureux !? Ce long-métrage, réalisé en stop motion par Claude Barras sur un scénario de Céline Sciamma, déploie un univers riche en émotions et donne vie à une palette de personnages pétris d'humanité qui cheminent ensemble vers un destin plus lumineux.

02. Children & Teens - 02. 6 plus
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Marc Jacobs & Louis Vuitton

By:
Loïc Prigent
Type:
DVD
Year:
2007
Language:
English, French (France), German (Germany)
Subtitles:
English, French (France), German (Germany)
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L'Amour fou

Yves Saint Laurent - Pierre Bergé

By:
Pierre Thoretton
Type:
DVD
Year:
2010
Language:
French (France)
Subtitles:
English
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Mademoiselle C

By:
Fabien Constant
Type:
DVD
Language:
English, French (France)
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English
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Dior et moi

Dior and I

By:
Frédéric Tcheng
Type:
DVD
Year:
2014
Language:
English, French (France)
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Lagerfeld Confidential

By:
Rodolphe Marconi
Type:
DVD
Language:
French (France)
Subtitles:
English
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Christian Dior et moi

By:
Christian Dior
Type:
Book
Year:
2017
Language:
French (France)
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Peu avant sa mort soudaine en 1957, Christian Dior, alors au faîte de sa gloire, entreprit de publier ses Mémoires. Ceux-ci retracent, avec humour et style, le destin exceptionnel d’un homme qui, inconnu un jour, célèbre dans le monde entier le lendemain, révolutionna la mode. Pourtant, rien ne semblait l’y prédestiner. C’est sur le tard que, pressé par la nécessité, il s’initie à la gravure de mode, puis travaille avec les plus grands. En 1946 (il a alors 41 ans), naît la maison Christian Dior. Le 12 février 1947, sa première collection rencontre un succès immédiat et éclatant. Son existence en sera irrémédiablement bouleversée. C’est ce parcours hors du commun que, dans un style surprenant d’élégance, Christian Dior nous fait découvrir. Il nous invite à passer les portes du 30, avenue Montaigne, pour assister à la naissance d’une collection ou pénétrer dans les coulisses d’un défilé. Et, surtout, il raconte ses intuitions géniales, ses doutes, ses audaces, son éternel souci du détail et du travail soigné, les rencontres providentielles, aussi, qui en ont fait l’un des plus grands noms de la haute couture.

04. Culture - 05. Arts
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Vocabulaire en dialogues

Niveau débutant

By:
Évelyne Siréjols
Type:
Learners' Library
Year:
2007
Language:
Chinese (China), English, French (France), Spanish (Traditional Sort)
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Le Vocabulaire en dialogues s'adresse aux adolescents et adultes de niveau débutant. Il permet d'étudier le lexique de la vie quotidienne dans une approche communicative. Le Vocabulaire en dialogues propose 23 chapitres présentant des thèmes courants et variés (la politesse, le vocabulaire de la classe, la famille, les loisirs, le sport, les sorties, etc.). Chaque chapitre est organisé sur 4 pages : une page de dialogues réalistes et plaisants pour aborder les nouveautés lexicales, à travers des faits de la vie quotidienne ; une page et demie d'explications et d'illustrations pour découvrir et approfondir le vocabulaire et les actes de parole du thème ; une page et demie d'exercices variés et progressifs pour s'entraîner à l'emploi de ce lexique nouveau, avec une activité plus libre proposée à la fin de chaque chapitre. Cet ouvrage est complété par : cinq bilans de deux pages ; un lexique multilingue (français traduit en anglais, espagnol et chinois) ; les corrigés de tous les exercices des chapitres et des bilans.

05. Learners' Library / Linguistics - 05. Vocabulary
Teachers' Library - 06. Vocabulaire
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Compartiment tueurs

By:
Sébastien Japrisot
Type:
Book
Year:
1962
Language:
French (France)
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"Quand vous prenez une couchette dans un train de nuit, méfiez- vous des rencontres. Quand on retrouve une femme étranglée dans votre compartiment, méfiez-vous de vos voisins. Quand on supprime un à un tous vos voisins, méfiez-vous tout court. Si vous n'êtes pas vous-même l'assassin, c'est embêtant !"

06. Literature - 07. Novels

A Bag of Marbles

Un Sac de billes

By:
Joseph Joffo
Type:
Book
Year:
1974
Language:
English
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In this captivating memoir, two young brothers use ingenuity, spirit, and teamwork to elude the Nazis. 

06. Literature - 01. French literature in translation

Around the World in Eighty Days and Five Weeks in a Balloon

Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours et Cinq semaines en ballon

By:
Jules Verne
Type:
Book
Year:
1994
Language:
English
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The story of the journey made by a Victorian gentleman, Phileas Fogg, who wagered that he could travel around the world in eighty days.

Five weeks in a balloon was Verne's first novel, which documents a jaunt across Africa in a hydrogen balloon.

06. Literature - 01. French literature in translation
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Someone I Loved

Je l'aimais

By:
Anna Gavalda
Type:
Book
Year:
2012
Language:
English
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When Chloé's husband leaves her and their children for another woman, she is devastated. Unexpectedly, her usually distant father-in-law comes to Chloé's aid, both with practical help and his personal wisdom on life and love. 

06. Literature - 01. French literature in translation
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Memoirs of Hadrian

Mémoires d'Hadrien

By:
Marguerite Yourcenar
Type:
Book
Year:
2005
Language:
English
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Both an exploration of character and a meditation on history, Marguerite Yourcenar's novel Memoirs of Hadrian has received international acclaim since its publication in France in 1951. Written in the form of a testamentary letter from the emperor Hadrian to his successor, the youthful Marcus Aurelius, the work is as extraordinary for its psychological depth as for its reconstruction of the second century of our era. In it, Yourcenar reimagines Hadrian's arduous boyhood, his triumphs and reversals, and finally, as emperor, his reordering of a war-torn world, writing with the imaginative insight of a great writer of the twentieth century while crafting a prose style as elegant as those of the Latin stylists of Hadrian's own time.

06. Literature - 01. French literature in translation
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Les Misérables

By:
Victor Hugo
Type:
Book
Year:
1982
Language:
English
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Victor Hugo's tale of injustice, heroism and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind him. But his attempts to become a respected member of the community are constantly put under threat: by his own conscience, when, owing to a case of mistaken identity, another man is arrested in his place; and by the relentless investigations of the dogged Inspector Javert. It is not simply for himself that Valjean must stay free, however, for he has sworn to protect the baby daughter of Fantine, driven to prostitution by poverty.

Norman Denny's lively English translation is accompanied by an introduction discussing Hugo's political and artistic aims in writing Les Misérables.

06. Literature - 01. French literature in translation
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Underground Time

Les heures souterraines

By:
Delphine de Vigan
Type:
Book
Year:
2011
Language:
English
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Every day Mathilde takes the Metro to the office of a large multinational where she works in the marketing department. Mathilde is unhappy at work - not long ago she dared to voice a different opinion from that of her moody boss, and bit by bit has found herself frozen out of office life.

Every day paramedic Thibault drives to the addresses he receives by radio phone from head office. Thibault is unhappy in love and spends each day fighting his way through Paris traffic - he is aware that he may be the only human being many of the people he visits will see for the entire day. 

As they crisscross Paris one day in early summer, though both feel themselves to be anonymous figures in a crowd, pushed and shoved and pressured by the demanding city, surely a meeting must be inevitable.

06. Literature - 01. French literature in translation

Croquis de Québec

By:
Guy Delisle
Type:
Book
Year:
2013
Language:
French (France)
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03. Graphic novels & Comics

Parisian Chic

A Style Guide by Ines de la Fressange

By:
Ines de la Fressange
Sophie Gachet
Type:
Book
Year:
2011
Language:
English
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Celebrity model Inès de la Fressange shares the well-kept secrets of how Parisian women maintain effortless glamour and a timeless allure. Inès de la Fressange—France’s icon of chic—shares her personal tips for living with style and charm, gleaned from decades in the fashion industry. She offers specific pointers on how to dress like a Parisian, including how to mix affordable basics with high-fashion touches, and how to accessorize. Her step-by-step do’s and don’ts are accompanied by fashion photography, and the book is personalized with her charming drawings. Inès also shares how to bring Parisian chic into your home, and how to insert your signature style into any space—even the office. The ultrachic volume is wrapped with a three-quarter-height removable jacket and features offset aquarelle paper and a ribbon page marker. Complete with her favorite addresses for finding the ultimate fashion and decorating items, this is a must-have for any woman who wants to add a touch of Paris to her own style.

04. Culture - 05. Arts
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The School for Wives and The Learned Ladies

L'école des femmes et Les femmes savantes

By:
Molière
Type:
Book
Year:
1991
Language:
English
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06. Literature - 01. French literature in translation
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Incarnata

Récit

By:
Jacques Chessex
Type:
Book
Year:
1999
Language:
French (France)
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" Incarnata est musica " : la phrase est de Mozart, en marge de ses carnets. Mozart, que jalousait Antonio Salieri tout comme le narrateur du récit de Jacques Chessex jalouse le grand Ramuz (1878-1947). L'un fréquente la lumière de la création, l'autre l'ombre et l'amertume. L'un travaille, l'autre se dissipe. Jacques Chessex imagine ici, en phrases souples, un duel entre un maître écrasant et son témoin rebelle : " Ai-je rêvé un sort parallèle au mien, qui fût à la fois le mien et celui de la personne que j'aurais dû être. " Ce récit grave et transparent est une réflexion sur les pouvoirs de la littérature. C'est aussi une allégorie de toute chair. On y assiste au triomphe et à la dérision de la vanité. On y rencontre une femme aimée malgré sa laideur, Ariane D., " une vraie sorcière de Goya " mais à l'âme si pure, qu'elle fascine jusqu'à la mort. Tout Chessex est là : dans le vertige entre l'élégie de la beauté, la volupté et le renoncement.

06. Literature - 07. Novels
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Les revenants - Saison 1

The Returned - Series 1

By:
Fabrice Gobert
Type:
DVD
Year:
2013
Language:
French (France)
Subtitles:
English
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Braquo - Saison 1

By:
Olivier Marchal
Type:
DVD
Year:
2009
Language:
French (France)
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English
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Les Témoins - Saisons 1 et 2

Witnesses

By:
Hervé Hadmar
Marc Herpoux
Type:
DVD
Year:
2018
Language:
French (France)
Subtitles:
English
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Le Bureau des légendes - Saison 3

The Bureau

By:
Eric Rochant
Type:
DVD
Year:
2017
Language:
French (France)
Subtitles:
English, French (France)
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Samba

By:
Eric Toledano
Olivier Nakache
Type:
DVD
Year:
2014
Language:
French (France)
Subtitles:
English
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01. DVDs

Une traversée de Paris

By:
Eric Hazan
Type:
Book
Year:
2017
Language:
French (France)
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Eric Hazan nous convie à une traversée de Paris, du sud au nord, d'Ivry à Saint-Denis. Au fil des pas, il mêle son histoire personnelle et celle de la ville dans son entassement d'époques et d'événements. Il note les évolutions et les changements à l'oeuvre, observe L'architecture, évoque La Littérature et Le cinéma tout en revenant sur ses souvenirs de chirurgien et d'éditeur.

04. Culture - 03. Travel

A Walk Through Paris

A Radical Exploration

By:
Eric Hazan
Type:
Book
Year:
2018
Language:
English
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A walker’s guide to Paris, taking us through its past, present and possible futures Eric Hazan, author of the acclaimed Invention of Paris, takes the reader on a walk from Ivry to Saint-Denis, roughly following the meridian that divides Paris into east and west, and passing such familiar landmarks as the Luxembourg Gardens, the Pompidou Centre, the Gare du Nord and Montmartre, as well as forgotten alleyways and arcades. Weaving historical anecdotes, geographical observations, and literary references, Hazan’s walk guides us through an unknown Paris. With the aid of maps, he delineates the most fascinating and forgotten parts of the city’s past and present. Planning and modernization have accelerated the erasure of its revolutionary history, yet through walking and observation, Hazan shows how we can regain our knowledge of the city of Robespierre, the Commune, Sartre, and the May ’68 uprising. Drawing on his own life story, as surgeon, publisher and social critic, Hazan vividly illustrates the interplay and concord between a city and the personality it forms.

04. Culture - 03. Travel

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