288 pages ISBN: 978-2-35341-019-4 Translated from the English by Lucie Delplanque Summary ‘Andrew Hussey proposes a different history of the city. A provoking work.’ Le Nouvel Observateur ‘A remover […] that explores the daily lives of the Parisian people.’ L’Humanité ‘Praised by the English-speaking press, this book contains many anecdotes, cruel and spicy.’ Courrier International ‘The French capital’s past painted by a British scholar as a wide streak of massacres and debauchery scenes.’ Courrier International ‘You’ll come away with a deeper understanding of a people, a culture and a city that the rest of the world has simultaneously envied and maligned’. The Washington Post ‘Hussey has managed to redefine Paris true character. An entertaining cultural story.’ The Times
