Paris in Modern Times: From the Old Regime to the Present Day

Cover
Contents
Illustrations
Maps
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Old Regime Paris: The City before 1789
	Chronology
	Introduction
	Salons and the “Republic of Letters”
	Jansenism, Freemasons, and academies
	Paris Parlement and pre-Revolution
	Revolutionary language of Enlightenment
	Population diversity and migration
	Popular classes—“the people”
	Upper and middle classes
	Police and administration
	Guilds
	Faubourgs and clandestine work
	Construction and expansion
	Trade and commerce
	Neighborhood sociability
	High culture
	La mode and demi-monde
	Parisian mentalité on the eve of Revolution
	Conclusion
2 Paris during the French Revolution and Napoleon, 1789–1815
	Chronology
	Introduction
	The Revolution begins
	The King and Paris
	Political clubs
	The Terror, Directory, and Napoleon Bonaparte
	Popular politics
	Sans-culottes
	Parisian women during Revolution
	Gilded Youth
	Abolition of guilds and beginning of laissez-faire
	Panthéon and Rue de Rivoli
	Workers during Revolutionary and Napoleonic era
	New Men
	Jacques-Louis David
	Dechristianization and Festival of Supreme Being
	Guillotine
	Festivals and Napoleonic style
	Conclusion
3 Paris during the Restoration, 1815–1830
	Chronology
	Introduction
	1815: Restoration of Bourbon monarchy
	Reaction
	Protest
	Charles X
	Population movement and growth
	Foreigners
	Vidocq’s underworld
	Generation of 1820
	New Regime of laissez-faire
	Political economy
	Hospitals and cemeteries
	Notables
	Romanticism in painting
	Literature
	Music
	Lycées, academies, and grandes écoles
	Conclusion
4 Paris during the July Monarchy and Revolution of 1848
	Chronology
	Introduction
	Revolution of 1830
	Louis-Philippe and public order
	February Revolution of 1848
	June Days
	The “Other Paris”
	Rue Transnonain
	Parisian proletariat
	Garnis and Place de Grève
	“Decisive Years”
	Rambuteau, urban planning, and a new wall
	Hints of a labor movement
	Paris economy at mid-century
	The Social Question
	Bourgeoisie and bohemians
	Arcades and photography
	City of exiles, expats, and artists
	Conclusion
5 Paris during the Second Empire, 1852–1870
	Chronology
	Introduction
	Republic to Empire
	Workers and paternalist state
	Administering Paris
	Undercurrents of discontent
	Haussmannization
	Migrant stonemasons of Creuse
	Belleville and Goutte d’Or
	Paris bourgeoisie during the Second Empire
	Financing Haussmannization
	Railroads, manufacturing, and sewers
	Les Halles
	City of Light and modernity
	Bohemians and Second Empire
	Painting and photography
	Bon Marché
	The 1867 Exposition and modern tourism
	Conclusion
6 The Commune of 1871
	Chronology
	Introduction
	Politics and Revolutionary Tradition
	Politics during the Prussian Siege
	Rebellion of March 1871 and the war against Versailles
	Governance
	Radicals and fédérés
	Opposition and anti-clericalism
	Women
	Dead and arrested
	Mobilization during the Prussian Siege
	Initiatives of the Commune
	Businesses and Bank of France
	Communalism of the Paris Commune
	Revolutionary Tradition
	Art and artists
	Remembering the Commune
	Legacies
	Conclusion
7 Paris from the Third Republic to Turn of the Century
	Chronology
	Introduction
	Sacré-Coeur, Communard amnesty, and Republic
	Parisian labor movement
	Boulanger Affair
	Dreyfus Affair
	Women’s work
	Immigrants
	Social class and society in Belle Époque
	Public health and crime
	Métro and sewers
	Consumerism
	Working-class residential patterns
	Entrepreneurialism
	Café sociability
	Montmartre and greenspace
	Expositions and Eiffel Tower
	Tourists and foreign artists
	Conclusion
8 Paris from the Belle Époque to the Great War
	Chronology
	Introduction
	Far Right
	Political Left
	Commemorating the past, celebrating the Republic
	Paris on the eve of the Great War
	Workers and clerks
	Foreigners
	Women’s lives
	Wealthy western Paris
	Organization of labor
	Industrial banlieue
	Labor and capital
	Great Flood of 1910
	Avant-garde
	Pop culture crazes: Detective stories and bicycles
	Film
	Montparnasse
	Conclusion
9 Paris from the Great War through Vichy
	Chronology
	Introduction
	Great War and Union Sacrée
	Fascism in Interwar Paris
	Red Belt
	Paris occupied
	Wartime Paris: 1914–18 and 1940–44
	Interwar expats
	Parisian intelligentsia
	Imperial capital
	Industry: New and old
	Suburban expansion
	Colonial Exposition of 1931
	Matignon Accords and economic nationalization
	Post-modern mood
	Pop culture and the “little people” of Paris
	Jazz Age
	Anneés folles
	Conclusion
10 Paris: Post-War through de Gaulle
	Chronolgy
	Introduction
	Fourth Republic
	De Gaulle and Paris
	The Algerian War and terrorism
	May 1968
	Colonial immigration
	Suburban housing
	University students
	Embourgeoisement
	Trente Glorieuses
	Standard of living and material culture
	Tourism
	1968 labor strikes
	Left Bank and Saint-Germain-des-Près
	Youth culture of 1960s
	New Wave film
	Americanization
	Conclusion
11 Paris from de Gaulle to Mitterrand
	Chronology
	Introduction
	Après mai—post-1968
	Pompidou
	Giscard
	Chirac
	Parisian consumers
	Population patterns
	Young Parisians
	Legacies of immigration and new arrivals
	Film industry
	Big urban projects
	RER and Charles de Gaulle Airport
	City center and Châtelet-Les Halles
	Gare d’Orsay Museum and BPI
	Film, television, and literature
	Post-modernists and other thinkers
	Popular music
	Conclusion
12 Paris from Mitterrand to the Present
	Chronology
	Introduction
	Mayors
	Trials of Papon and Bousquet
	Challenge of the National Front
	Terrorism
	Troubles in the banlieue
	Successes in the banlieue
	Post-1989 immigration
	2003 heat wave
	Grands Projets
	New technology and industry
	Gastronomy
	Transportation
	Bicentennial of the French Revolution
	Good Bread Is Back
	New cultural vistas
	Paris today and tomorrow
	Conclusion
Chronology
Notes
Suggestions for Further Reading
Index