• 26 Historic Buildings to Visit the Next Time You’re in Paris
• dress

  / Europe, 1500–1800
• dress

  / The 19th century
• Île-de-France
• France
• Georges-Eugène, Baron Haussmann
• Seine River
• Universities of Paris I–XIII
• urban planning

  / The era of industrialization
• Why Is Paris Called the City of Light?

• art market

  / The rise of Paris
• art market

  / Paris
• typography

  / Mechanical composition
• Rainer Maria Rilke

  / Paris and friendship with Auguste Rodin
• Western sculpture

  / 19th-century sculpture
• tapestry

  / 14th century
• Western theatre

  / French Neoclassicism

• history of publishing

  / France
• postal system

  / Growth of the post as a government monopoly

• France

  / Gaul under the high empire (c. 50 bce–c. 250 ce)
• France

  / Mitterrand’s second term
• anarchism

  / French anarchist thought
• anarchism

  / Anarchism in China
• history of Europe

  / Demographics
• flood
• Henry IV

  / Heir presumptive to the throne.
• June Days
• Normandy Invasion

  / Liberation of Paris
• Austria

  / Revolution and counterrevolution, 1848–59
• Battle of France

  / Italian entrance into war and the capture of Paris
• 20th-century international relations

  / The Allied invasion of Europe
• Battle of France
• world’s fair

  / The Great Exhibition and its legacy: the golden age of fairs
• world’s fair

  / The Great Exhibition and its legacy: the golden age of fairs

• Paris 1900 Olympic Games
• Paris 1924 Olympic Games
• Paris Olympics 2024

  / Athletes, Sports, and History

• aqueduct
• road

  / New paving materials
• tunnels and underground excavations

  / Soft-ground moles
• tunnels and underground excavations

  / Improved technology

• subway
• Orient-Express

General description

Paul Cohen-Portheim, The Spirit of Paris (1937; originally published in German, 1930); John Russell, Paris (1983); Harold P. Clunn, The Face of Paris (1933, reprinted 1958); B. Ehrlich, Paris on the Seine (1962); and Anthony Glyn, The Companion Guide to Paris (1985). Guidebooks include Paris, 3rd ed. (1996), from the Michelin Tourist Guides series; and Ian Littlewood, Paris: A Literary Companion (1987), for literary landmarks. The monumental work of F. De Rochegude and Maurice Dumolin, Guide pratique à travers le vieux Paris, new rev. ed. (1923), has been adapted by Jean-Paul Clébert, Les Rues de Paris: promenades du marquis de Rochegude à travers tous les arrondissements de Paris parcourus de nouveau, 2 vol. (1958, reissued 1966). These may be supplemented by Georges Pillement, Paris inconnu, rev. ed. (1981). Jean Bastié, Géographie du Grand Paris (1984), describes the geography of Greater Paris; François Chaslin, Les Paris de François Mitterrand: histoire des grands projets architecturaux (1985), describes architectural projects under President Mitterrand; and Pierre Merlin, Les Transports à Paris et Ile-de-France (1982), discusses transportation in Paris and the Île-de-France region. William Mahder (ed.), Paris Arts on Seine (1985), offers a lively view of cultural trends. John Ardagh, France Today, new rev. ed. (1987), has diverse materials on life in Paris. For information on churches, see Amédée C.L. Boinet, Les Églises parisiennes, 3 vol. (1958–64). Of sentimental interest are Léon-Paul Fargue et al., Dans les rues de Paris au temps des fiacres (1950); and R. Héron De Villefosse, Histoire et géographie galantes de Paris (1957).

History

General histories include Henry Bidou, Paris (1939; originally published in French, 1937); and Robert Laffont (ed.), The Illustrated History of Paris and the Parisians (1958; originally published in French, 1958; also published as Paris and Its People). Other major works include Marcel Poëte, Une Vie de cité: Paris de sa naissance à nos jours, 3 vol. and album (1924–31); Lucien Dubech and Pierre D’Espezel, Histoire de Paris, 2 vol. (1931); and Philippe Lefrançois, Paris à travers les siècles, 10 vol. (1948–56). For the history of the city’s growth, see particularly R. Héron De Villefosse, Construction de Paris (1938). Studies of special periods include Paul M. Duval, Paris antique: des origines au troisième siècle (1961); and Bernard Champigneulle, Paris de Napoléon à nos jours (1969). Among analytical works are Daniel Roche, The People of Paris: An Essay in Popular Culture in the 18th Century (1987; originally published in French, 1981); David Garrioch, Neighbourhood and Community in Paris, 1740–1790 (1986); Lenard R. Berlanstein, The Working People of Paris, 1871–1914 (1984); Ann-Louise Shapiro, Housing the Poor of Paris, 1850–1902 (1985); and Jerrold Seigel, Bohemian Paris: Culture, Politics, and the Boundaries of Bourgeois Life, 1830–1930 (1986). Herbert R. Lottman, The Left Bank: Writers, Artists, and Politics from the Popular Front to the Cold War (1982), details the intellectual life in Paris during the 20th century. Norma Evenson, Paris: A Century of Change, 1878–1978 (1979), presents the city’s evolution from a planner’s point of view.