Notable or notorious? : a gallery of Parisians / Gordon Wright.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wright, Gordon, 1912-2000

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paris (France)--Biography.

Paris (France).

Paris (France)--Intellectual life--19th century.

Paris (France)--Social life and customs--19th century.

Paris (France)--Intellectual life.

Intellectual life.

Manners and customs.

France--Paris.

Local Subjects:

Paris (France)--Intellectual life.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

ix, 147 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm

Edition:

First Harvard University Press paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1991.

Summary:

This book, save for one chapter, is not concerned with artists. It is concerned with men and women who achieved a degree of prominence or notoriety in the Paris of their day, but whose reputations have been dimmed by time. While they are not 'world-historical' figures in the Hegelian sense, each one seems to me to reflect some aspect of society and attitudes of nineteenth-century Parisians. Indeed, they may be even more representative of their times than are certified geniuses, those whose stature makes them exceptional rather than typical.

Notes:

Originally published: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Alumni Association, ©1989.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-147).

ISBN:

0674627431

9780674627437

OCLC:

22421328