The Place de la Bastille: The Story of a Quartier

by Keith Reader

Book Overview

Epicentre of the Revolution of 1789, erstwhile bastion of the skilled working-class and centre of radical agitation, along with Pigalle and Montmartre a focus for popular and raffish night-life in the early twentieth century, the Bastille area of Eastern Paris (also known as the Faubourg Saint-Antoine) is now an ethnically and socially mixed quartier which still bears the traces of its previous avatars. In a fascinating tour, Keith Reader charts the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1846316650
• ISBN13: 9781846316654
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.3"