Rearick, Charles, 1942-

Paris dreams, Paris memories the city and its mystique / [electronic resource] : Charles Rearick. - Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2011. - xv, 278 p. : ill., maps.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-272) and index.

Paris : praised, modernized, remembered, staged, and loved : nineteenth-century foundations -- The memory of a certain "belle-epoque" (1914-c.1960) : or how the turn-of-the-century lived on beyond its time -- Postwar modernizing and the resistance of memory (1945-c.1980) -- New varieties of a "nouveau Paris" (1974-2008) -- Paris in comparison -- Contemporary Paris : images, spirit, soul, and sites -- Conclusion : to know Paris.


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Collective memory--France--Paris.


Paris (France)--Public opinion.
Paris (France)--History--19th century.
Paris (France)--History--20th century.


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