Neighbourhood and Community in Paris, 1740-1790

by David Garrioch

In the second half of the eighteenth century, Paris was the second largest city in Europe, with a population of some half a million. Contemporary writers described it as anonymous and chaotic, and so it must have seemed to many new arrivals from the provinces. Yet the records of the local police officials, which have remained virtually untouched for two hundred years, reveal a world which was far from anonymous, where most people went about their...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521522315
• ISBN13: 9780521522311
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.4"