Paris noir : the secret history of a city /
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| Author / Creator: | Yonnet, Jacques. |
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| Uniform title: | Enchantements sur Paris. English |
| Edition: | 1st Dedalus ed. |
| Imprint: | Sawtry, UK : Dedalus ; Gardena, Calif. : Distributed in the US by SCB Distributors, 2006. |
| Description: | 280 p. ; 20 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6366653 |
| Summary: | In Paris Noir, Jaques Yonnet tells us about some of the darker quarters of Paris's Left Bank, centred on the Place Mauberge and the Rue Mouffetard, as he experienced it.<br> <br> This book was mostly written during the 1940s, under the Occupation and in the immediate post-war period. There is a certain amount dealing with the resistance, but the main thrust of the book is a Paris that existed between the wars - and is well known from Film Noir - but has since disappeared. It concentrates on the people, a mixture of ordinary workers, tradesmen, artists, con men and criminals.<br> <br> It invests the area with a sense of mystery, including occasional supernatural events; its style is remarkable and Yonnet often draws on the language of the inhabitants of the area. |
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| Physical Description: | 280 p. ; 20 cm. |
| ISBN: | 1903517486 9781903517482 |