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The little pleasures of Paris
\"A guide to Paris's most charming places, objects, and pastimes, complied by Leslie Jonath and illustrated by Lizzy Stewart. Organized by season and featuring 45 places and experiences--foods, parks, bakeries, museums, streets, festivals, and more--that are quintessentially Parisian, The Little Pleasures of Paris is a classic love-letter to the City of Light\"-- Provided by publisher.
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La Tour Eiffel En 1900
Extrait : \"Sans remonter a la tour de Babel, on peut observer que l'idee meme de la construction d'une Tour de tres grande hauteur a depuis longtemps hante l'imagination des hommes. Cette sorte de victoire sur cette terrible loi de la pesanteur qui attache l'homme au sol, lui a toujours paru un symbole de la force et des difficultes vaincues.\"A PROPOS DES EDITIONS LIGARANLes editions LIGARAN proposent des versions numeriques de qualite de grands livres de la litterature classique mais egalement des livres rares en partenariat avec la BNF. Beaucoup de soins sont apportes a ces versions ebook pour eviter les fautes que l'on trouve trop souvent dans des versions numeriques de ces textes. LIGARAN propose des grands classiques dans les domaines suivants : * Livres rares* Livres libertins* Livres d'Histoire* Poesies* Premiere guerre mondiale* Jeunesse* Policier
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Piercing time
Piercing Time examines the role of photography in documenting urban change by juxtaposing contemporary 'rephotographs' taken by the author with images of nineteenth-century Paris taken by Charles Marville, who worked under Georges Haussmann, and corresponding photographs by Eugène Atget taken in the early twentieth century. Revisiting the sites of Marville's photographs with a black cloth, tripod and view camera, Peter Sramek creates here a visually stunning book that investigates how urban development, the use of photography as a documentary medium and the representation of urban space reflect attitudes towards the city. The essays that run alongside these fascinating images discuss subjects such as the aesthetics of ruins and the documentation of the demolitions that preceded Haussmannization, as well as the different approaches taken by Marville and Atget to their work. The book also includes contemporary interviews with local Parisians, extracts from Haussmann's own writing and historical maps that allow for an intriguing look at the shifting city plan. Sure to be of interest to lovers of the city, be they Parisians or visitors, Piercing Time provides a unique snapshot of historical changes of the past 150 years. But it will also be of enduring value to scholars. The accurate cataloguing and high quality reproductions of the images make it a resource for a significant portion of the Marville collection in the Musée Carnavalet, and it will aid further research in urban history and change in Paris over the past century and a half. Photographers will be drawn to the book for its new thinking in relation to documentary methodologies.
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Living in style. Paris
A narrated look at the interiors of twenty-two Parisian homes, designed and decorated by top-tier interior designers and architects.
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The Walls Have the Floor
The graffiti of the French student and worker uprising of May 1968, capturing participatory politics in action.Graffiti itself became a form of freedom.-Julien Besançon, The Walls Have the FloorFifty years ago, in 1968, barricades were erected in the streets of Paris for the first time since the Paris Commune of nearly one hundred years before. The events of May 1968 began with student protests against the Vietnam War and American imperialism, expanded to rebellion over student living conditions and resistance to capitalist consumerism. An uprising at the Sorbonne was followed by wildcat strikes across France, uniting students and workers and bringing the country's economy to a halt. There have been many accounts of these events. This book tells the story in a different way, through the graffiti inscribed by protestors as they protested.The graffiti collected here is by turns poetic, punning, hopeful, sarcastic, and crude. It quotes poets as often as it does political thinkers. Many wrote \"I have nothing to write,\" signaling not their naiveté but their desire to participate. Other anonymous declarations included \"Prohibiting prohibited\"; \"The dream is reality\"; \"The walls have ears. Your ears have walls\"; \"Exaggeration is the beginning of invention\"; \"Comrades, you're nitpicking\"; \"You don't beg for the right to live, you take it\"; and \"I came/I saw/I believed.\" A meeting is called at the Grand Amphitheater of the Sorbonne: \"Agenda: the worldwide revolution.\" This was interactive, participatory politics before Twitter and Facebook.Although the revolution of May 1968 didn't topple the government (Charles de Gaulle fled the country, only to return; in June, his party won a resounding electoral mandate), it made history. In The Walls Have the Floor, Julien Besançon collected traces of this history before the walls were painted over, and published this collection in July 1968 even as the paint was drying. Read today, the graffiti of 1968 captures, in a way no conventional history can, the defining spontaneity of the events.
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