"Why do I love this city when it has the face of the First and Second Empire? "asks the writer Pascale Fautrier. A history of Paris, a biographical and political reflection, this book follows street by street the discovery of the capital of the kingdom of France, on October 22, 1784, by a young Corsican ...
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"Why do I love this city when it has the face of the First and Second Empire? "asks the writer Pascale Fautrier. A history of Paris, a biographical and political reflection, this book follows street by street the discovery of the capital of the kingdom of France, on October 22, 1784, by a young Corsican of 15 years, witness and major actor of a spectacular urban metamorphosis at the threshold of our modernity.
"It was part of my dreams to make Paris [...] something fabulous, colossal, unknown until today", the Emperor confided to Las Cases in 1816.
This book is written in the future so that no young man (or girl) will ever again confuse the entrance "to the splendid cities" (Rimbaud) with the bleeding of domination.
French language
175 pages
Éditions Alexandrines
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