Shadows of Old Paris
Author | : Georges Duval |
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Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : Historic buildings |
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Author | : Georges Duval |
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Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : Historic buildings |
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Author | : Georges Duval |
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Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Buildings |
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Author | : Georges Duval |
Publisher | : Palala Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2016-05-12 |
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ISBN | : 9781356451494 |
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Author | : Georges 1847-1919 Duval |
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Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2016-08-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781371212148 |
Author | : G. Duval |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2015-07-19 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781331830290 |
Excerpt from Shadows of Old Paris To most Anglo-Saxons and Americans, Paris of the Twentieth Century is almost as familiar as their native cities. Its crowded Boulevards, brilliant cafes, theatres, and shops are the playground of hundreds of thousands of English-speaking tourists, whose yearly trip to the "Gay City" is a regular chapter in the programme of diversion. Though every man is not a Frenchman, each may become, to a certain extent, a Parisian; for the asphalt is hospitable to all nationalities alike, if they will but bring with them a capacity for enjoyment and the wherewithal to pay for it liberally. Yet, amongst the crowds of idlers and pleasure-seekers, of students even, who make the French capital temporarily their home, there are few lovers of tradition curious enough to turn from the dazzling modern city of pleasure, and plunge into the dingy Paris of the past, itself a town within a town, rapidly being swallowed up by the hydra-headed demon of improvement, with its insatiable appetite and power of destruction. Along the quays, some of the older houses yet remain; in the streets adjoining, slumbering amid gardens, lie the stately homes of the nobility, a few still occupied by the great families who have inhabited them for generations. But they are fast disappearing, and many have fallen from their high estate to serve as warehouses, or for commercial purposes, or, even, as tenements for the poorest classes of artisans and workmen. Here and there, in the narrow streets of a sordid quarter, mouldy with grime and dampness, a proud frontage will rear its graceful proportions, keeping, though in dilapidated surroundings, its birthright of dignity and beauty. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Godfrey Richard Duval |
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Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 1910 |
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Author | : Erna Paris |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 638 |
Release | : 2015-05-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1632864185 |
One of the most urgent issues facing the world today is how countries shape historical memory in the aftermath of calamity, making decisions that cast long shadows into the future. Combining gripping storytelling with sharp observation, Erna Paris takes us on an extraordinary journey through four continents to explore how nations reinvent themselves after cataclysmic events. She travels through the United States, with its long-buried memory of slavery; to South Africa, where the Truth and Reconciliation Commission struggles to heal the wounds left by apartheid; to Japan, France, and Germany, where the unresolved pain of Hiroshima and the Holocaust still resonate; and to the former Yugoslavia, where she exposes the cynical shaping of historical memory. Through its insightful analysis, Long Shadows compels us to question where we stand as individuals in relation to our own collective histories. Erna Paris is the winner of ten national and international writing awards, three for Long Shadows. She is the author of six critically acclaimed books of literary non-fiction, including The End of Days: A Story of Tolerance, Tyranny and the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain, which won the 1996 Canadian National Jewish Book Award for History. She lives in Toronto. Winner of the Pearson Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Award, the inaugural Shaugnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, and the Dorothy Shoichet prize for history from the Canadian Jewish Book Awards. 'Long Shadows is magnificent. I would love to see this book taught in every history class in America.' - Iris Chang, author of The Rape of Nanking 'Enlightening...Riveting...Paris raises questions of enormous importance.' - Kirkus 'Paris convincingly demonstrates that memory is not only selective but subject to calculated efforts to serve personal needs and national interests.' - The Christian Science Monitor 'Erna Paris gives us a rich, if p
Author | : Lee Holt |
Publisher | : Hardpress Publishing |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2012-08-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781290883016 |
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Total Pages | : 494 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : Bibliography |
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Author | : SHADOW. |
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Release | : 1880 |
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