Paris noir : the secret history of a city / Jacques Yonnet ; translated with an introduction and notes by Christine Donougher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yonnet, Jacques.

Standardized Title:

Enchantements sur Paris. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Rive gauche (Paris, France)--History--20th century.

Rive gauche (Paris, France).

Rive gauche (Paris, France)--Social life and customs--20th century.

Physical Description:

280 pages ; 20 cm

Edition:

First Dedalus edition.

Place of Publication:

Sawtry, UK : Dedalus ; Gardena, Calif. : Distributed in the US by SCB Distributors, 2006.

Language Note:

Translated from the French.

Summary:

In Paris Noir, Jaques Yonnet tells us about some of the darker quarters of Paris's Left Bank, centred on the Place Mauberge and the Rue Mouffetard, as he experienced it.This book was mostly written during the 1940s, under the Occupation and in the immediate post-war period. There is a certain amount dealing with the resistance, but the main thrust of the book is a Paris that existed between the wars - and is well known from Film Noir - but has since disappeared. It concentrates on the people, a mixture of ordinary workers, tradesmen, artists, con men and criminals.It invests the area with a sense of mystery, including occasional supernatural events; its style is remarkable and Yonnet often draws on the language of the inhabitants of the area.

Notes:

First published in France in 1954.

ISBN:

1903517486

9781903517482

OCLC:

64315548