The Marais: The Story of a Quartier

by Keith Reader

Book Overview

A cultural history of one of Paris's most fascinating and variegated areas, whose history can be summarized as 'from riches to rags and back again.' The Marais was the beating heart of fashionable Paris from the Middle Ages through to the time of Louis XIV, when the court's move to Versailles marked the start of a decline in its fortunes. Thereafter it became a working-class, largely Jewish area, sometimes described as a 'ghetto', and by the early...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1802078096
• ISBN13: 9781802078091
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"