Place de la Bastille : the story of a quartier / Keith Reader.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reader, Keith.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bastille.

Historic sites--France--Paris.

Historic sites.

France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799.

France.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 184 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Epicentre of the Revolution of 1789, erstwhile bastion of the skilled working-class and centre of radical agitation, along with Pigalle and Montmartre a focus for popular and raffish night-life in the early twentieth century, the Bastille area of Eastern Paris (also known as the Faubourg Saint-Antoine) is now an ethnically and socially mixed quartier which still bears the traces of its previous avatars. In a fascinating tour, Keith Reader charts the history and cultural geography of this unique area of Paris, from the fortress and prison that gave the area its name to the building of the largest and costliest opera house in the world.

Contents:

Introduction : The Place de la Bastille

"What's that poor creature doing here?" : the area and the fortress before the Revolution of 1789

"Thought blew the Bastille apart" : the fall of the fortress and the revolutionary years, 1789-1815

"The strategy of the generals of Africa shattered" : the Restoration, Orleanist and Second Republic years, 1815-1851

"Where is the noise of the storm that I love?" : The Second Empire from Haussmann to the Commune

"Satan's bagpipes" : La Belle Époque's forty-three years of peace

"Villains, stars and everybody in between" : The First War and the 'entre-deux-guerres'

"Slicked hair and splendid sideburns" : Occupation and Liberation

"Let's have some sun!" : post-Gaullism and the Mitterand years

"A building, not a monument" : the construction of the Bastille Opéra

"A real earthquake" : the impact of the Opéra on the 'quartier'

Flânerie in the archive : the Faubourg/Bastille today.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-78138-804-0

1-84631-678-2

OCLC:

739048196