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Article: Paris: Capital of the World.(Book Review)
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- The Historian
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- September 22, 2004
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Paris: Capital of the World. By Patrice Higonnet. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. (Cambridge, MA, and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. 493. $35.00.)
In an evocative journey through modern Paris from the mid-eighteenth century to the Second World War, the author of this study offers a sweeping cultural portrait of the city that was the center of it all. Originating as lectures at the College de France, Patrice Higonnet's vivid intellectual style is graceful, mesmerizing, and laced with irony. He draws on a vast array of sources to explore the myths and fantasies created around Paris as the capital of the nineteenth century. Instead ...