How Paris Became Paris

How Paris Became Paris
Author: Joan DeJean
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2015-04-07
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 162040768X


Download How Paris Became Paris Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Documents the century-long transformation of Paris from a medieval center to the modern city that is recognized today, revealing how the Parisian urban model was actually invented in the 1700s when period leaders tore down fortifications, created public parks and constructed streets and bridges. 25,000 first printing.


How Paris Became Paris
Language: en
Pages: 321
Authors: Joan DeJean
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-04-07 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

GET EBOOK

Documents the century-long transformation of Paris from a medieval center to the modern city that is recognized today, revealing how the Parisian urban model wa
Seven Ages of Paris
Language: en
Pages: 496
Authors: Alistair Horne
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-11-20 - Publisher: Vintage

GET EBOOK

In this luminous portrait of Paris, the celebrated historian gives us the history, culture, disasters, and triumphs of one of the world’s truly great cities.
Transforming Paris
Language: en
Pages: 455
Authors: David P. Jordan
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995-01-01 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

GET EBOOK

The Paris we know today, with its grand boulevards, its bridges and parks, its monumental beauty, was essentially built in only seventeen years, in the middle o
The Age of Comfort
Language: en
Pages: 305
Authors: Joan DeJean
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-07-01 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

GET EBOOK

Today, it is difficult to imagine a living room without a sofa. When the first sofas on record were delivered in seventeenth-century France, the result was a ra
The Greater Journey
Language: en
Pages: 578
Authors: David McCullough
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-05-24 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

GET EBOOK

The #1 bestseller that tells the remarkable story of the generations of American artists, writers, and doctors who traveled to Paris, fell in love with the city