Romantic Paris: Histories of a Cultural Landscape, 1800a 1850

by Michael Marrinan

Book Overview

Romantic Paris is a richly illustrated survey of cultural life in Paris during some of the most tumultuous decades of the city's history. Between the coups d' tat of Napol on Bonaparte and of his nephew, Louis-Napol on, Paris weathered extremes of political and economic fortune. Once the shining capital of a pan-European empire, it was overrun by foreign armies. Projects for grand public works were delayed and derailed by plague, armed uprisings,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804761515
• ISBN13: 9780804761512
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 488 Pages
• Weight: 2.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 8.9" x 9.9"