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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aMcGregor, James H. S.
_eautore
245 1 0 _aParis from the Ground Up /
_cJames H. S. McGregor.
264 1 _aCambridge, MA :
_bHarvard University Press,
_c[2010]
264 4 _c2010
300 _a1 online resource (352 p.)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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490 0 _aFrom the Ground Up
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tIntroduction --
_t1 Outpost of Empire --
_t2 The Cathedral of Notre Dame --
_t3 Gothic Ascendancy --
_t4 Foundations of the Louvre --
_t5 City of Light --
_t6 The Limits of Royal Ambition --
_t7 Revolution and Redesign --
_t8 Paris on the Edge --
_tInformation --
_tFurther Reading --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tIllustration Credits --
_tIndex --
_tMaps
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aParis is the most personal of cities. There is a Paris for the medievalist, and another for the modernist—a Paris for expatriates, philosophers, artists, romantics, and revolutionaries of every stripe. James H. S. McGregor brings these multiple perspectives into focus throughout this concise, unique history of the City of Light. His panorama begins with an ancient Gallic fortress on the Seine, burned to the ground by its own defenders in a vain effort to starve out Caesar’s legions. After ninth-century raids by the Vikings ended, Parisians expanded the walls of their tiny sanctuary on the Ile de la Cité, turning the river’s right bank into a thriving commercial district and the Rive Gauche into a college town. Gothic spires expressed a taste for architectural novelty, matched only by the palaces and pleasure gardens of successive monarchs whose ingenuity made Paris the epitome of everything French. The fires of Revolution threatened all that had come before, but Baron Haussmann saw opportunity in the wreckage. No planned city in the world is more famous than his. Paris from the Ground Up allows readers to trace the city’s evolution in its architecture and art—from the Roman arena to the Musée d’Orsay, from the Louvre’s defensive foundations to I. M. Pei’s transparent pyramids. Color maps, along with identifying illustrations, make the city accessible to visitors by foot, Metro, or riverboat.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Aug 2024)
650 7 _aHISTORY / Europe / France.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.4159/9780674265998?locatt=mode:legacy
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674265998
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