Drawing upon a vast body of historical scholarship, Casey Harison's Paris in Modern Times provides the first detailed academic history of Paris in the modern age.
Chronologically surveying Paris's history from the Old Regime of the late-18th century through to the present day, this book explores the social, economic, political and cultural developments that come together to tell the story of this iconic city. Each chapter has an introduction and illuminating 'sidebars' that touch upon the ways in which Parisian history has intersected with wider changes in France and beyond. The text, which also includes a wealth of images, maps, and a further reading section, takes the opportunity to place Paris and its history in a broader French, Atlantic and global historical context in order to cover an essential aspect of what has been such an important city the world over.
Paris in Modern Times is vital reading for anyone seeking to know more about the history of Paris or the history of France since the French Revolution.
Author(s): Casey Harison
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 360
City: London
Cover
Contents
Illustrations
Maps
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Old Regime Paris: The City before 1789
Chronology
Introduction
Salons and the “Republic of Letters”
Jansenism, Freemasons, and academies
Paris Parlement and pre-Revolution
Revolutionary language of Enlightenment
Population diversity and migration
Popular classes—“the people”
Upper and middle classes
Police and administration
Guilds
Faubourgs and clandestine work
Construction and expansion
Trade and commerce
Neighborhood sociability
High culture
La mode and demi-monde
Parisian mentalité on the eve of Revolution
Conclusion
2 Paris during the French Revolution and Napoleon, 1789–1815
Chronology
Introduction
The Revolution begins
The King and Paris
Political clubs
The Terror, Directory, and Napoleon Bonaparte
Popular politics
Sans-culottes
Parisian women during Revolution
Gilded Youth
Abolition of guilds and beginning of laissez-faire
Panthéon and Rue de Rivoli
Workers during Revolutionary and Napoleonic era
New Men
Jacques-Louis David
Dechristianization and Festival of Supreme Being
Guillotine
Festivals and Napoleonic style
Conclusion
3 Paris during the Restoration, 1815–1830
Chronology
Introduction
1815: Restoration of Bourbon monarchy
Reaction
Protest
Charles X
Population movement and growth
Foreigners
Vidocq’s underworld
Generation of 1820
New Regime of laissez-faire
Political economy
Hospitals and cemeteries
Notables
Romanticism in painting
Literature
Music
Lycées, academies, and grandes écoles
Conclusion
4 Paris during the July Monarchy and Revolution of 1848
Chronology
Introduction
Revolution of 1830
Louis-Philippe and public order
February Revolution of 1848
June Days
The “Other Paris”
Rue Transnonain
Parisian proletariat
Garnis and Place de Grève
“Decisive Years”
Rambuteau, urban planning, and a new wall
Hints of a labor movement
Paris economy at mid-century
The Social Question
Bourgeoisie and bohemians
Arcades and photography
City of exiles, expats, and artists
Conclusion
5 Paris during the Second Empire, 1852–1870
Chronology
Introduction
Republic to Empire
Workers and paternalist state
Administering Paris
Undercurrents of discontent
Haussmannization
Migrant stonemasons of Creuse
Belleville and Goutte d’Or
Paris bourgeoisie during the Second Empire
Financing Haussmannization
Railroads, manufacturing, and sewers
Les Halles
City of Light and modernity
Bohemians and Second Empire
Painting and photography
Bon Marché
The 1867 Exposition and modern tourism
Conclusion
6 The Commune of 1871
Chronology
Introduction
Politics and Revolutionary Tradition
Politics during the Prussian Siege
Rebellion of March 1871 and the war against Versailles
Governance
Radicals and fédérés
Opposition and anti-clericalism
Women
Dead and arrested
Mobilization during the Prussian Siege
Initiatives of the Commune
Businesses and Bank of France
Communalism of the Paris Commune
Revolutionary Tradition
Art and artists
Remembering the Commune
Legacies
Conclusion
7 Paris from the Third Republic to Turn of the Century
Chronology
Introduction
Sacré-Coeur, Communard amnesty, and Republic
Parisian labor movement
Boulanger Affair
Dreyfus Affair
Women’s work
Immigrants
Social class and society in Belle Époque
Public health and crime
Métro and sewers
Consumerism
Working-class residential patterns
Entrepreneurialism
Café sociability
Montmartre and greenspace
Expositions and Eiffel Tower
Tourists and foreign artists
Conclusion
8 Paris from the Belle Époque to the Great War
Chronology
Introduction
Far Right
Political Left
Commemorating the past, celebrating the Republic
Paris on the eve of the Great War
Workers and clerks
Foreigners
Women’s lives
Wealthy western Paris
Organization of labor
Industrial banlieue
Labor and capital
Great Flood of 1910
Avant-garde
Pop culture crazes: Detective stories and bicycles
Film
Montparnasse
Conclusion
9 Paris from the Great War through Vichy
Chronology
Introduction
Great War and Union Sacrée
Fascism in Interwar Paris
Red Belt
Paris occupied
Wartime Paris: 1914–18 and 1940–44
Interwar expats
Parisian intelligentsia
Imperial capital
Industry: New and old
Suburban expansion
Colonial Exposition of 1931
Matignon Accords and economic nationalization
Post-modern mood
Pop culture and the “little people” of Paris
Jazz Age
Anneés folles
Conclusion
10 Paris: Post-War through de Gaulle
Chronolgy
Introduction
Fourth Republic
De Gaulle and Paris
The Algerian War and terrorism
May 1968
Colonial immigration
Suburban housing
University students
Embourgeoisement
Trente Glorieuses
Standard of living and material culture
Tourism
1968 labor strikes
Left Bank and Saint-Germain-des-Près
Youth culture of 1960s
New Wave film
Americanization
Conclusion
11 Paris from de Gaulle to Mitterrand
Chronology
Introduction
Après mai—post-1968
Pompidou
Giscard
Chirac
Parisian consumers
Population patterns
Young Parisians
Legacies of immigration and new arrivals
Film industry
Big urban projects
RER and Charles de Gaulle Airport
City center and Châtelet-Les Halles
Gare d’Orsay Museum and BPI
Film, television, and literature
Post-modernists and other thinkers
Popular music
Conclusion
12 Paris from Mitterrand to the Present
Chronology
Introduction
Mayors
Trials of Papon and Bousquet
Challenge of the National Front
Terrorism
Troubles in the banlieue
Successes in the banlieue
Post-1989 immigration
2003 heat wave
Grands Projets
New technology and industry
Gastronomy
Transportation
Bicentennial of the French Revolution
Good Bread Is Back
New cultural vistas
Paris today and tomorrow
Conclusion
Chronology
Notes
Suggestions for Further Reading
Index
