Bibliography of Paris

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The following is a list of works about Paris, France:

List of books, arranged by author

In English

Edwards, Henry Sutherland. Old and new Paris: its history, its people, and its places (2 vol 1894) online

Fierro, Alfred. Historical Dictionary of Paris (1998) 392pp, an abridged translation of his Histoire et dictionnaire de Paris (1996), 1580pp

Horne, Alistair. Seven Ages of Paris (2002), emphasis on ruling elites excerpt and text search

Jones, Colin. Paris: Biography of a City (2004), 592pp; comprehensive history by a leading British scholar excerpt and text search

Lawrence, Rachel; Gondrand, Fabienne (2010). Paris (City Guide) (12th ed.). London: Insight Guides. ISBN 9789812820792.

Sutcliffe, Anthony. Paris: An Architectural History (1996) excerpt and text search

In French

Brunet, Jean-Paul (1999). Police contre FLN, le drame d'octobre 1961 (in French). Flammarion. ISBN 978-2080676917.

Combeau, Yvan (2013). Histoire de Paris (in French). Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. ISBN 978-2-13-060852-3.

De Moncan, Patrice (2007). Les jardins du Baron Haussmann (in French). Paris: Les Éditions du Mécène. ISBN 978-2-907970-914.

De Moncan, Patrice (2012). Le Paris d'Haussmann (in French). Paris: Les Editions du Mecene. ISBN 978-2-9079-70983.

Dictionnaire Historique de Paris (in French). Le Livre de Poche. 2013. ISBN 978-2-253-13140-3.

du Camp, Maxime (1993). Paris – see organs, see functions, et sa vie (in French). Monaco: Rondeau.

Einaudi, Jean-Luc (2001). La Bataille de Paris: 17 octobre 1961 (in French). Fayard. ISBN 2-213-61019-3.

Fierro, Alfred (1996). Histoire et dictionnaire de Paris (in French). Robert Laffont. ISBN 2-221-07862-4.

Héron de Villefosse, René (1959). HIstoire de Paris (in French). Bernard Grasset.

Jarrassé, Dominique (2007). Grammaire des jardins Parisiens. Parigramme. ISBN 978-2-84096-476-6.

Maneglier, Hervé (1990). Paris Impérial- La vie quotidienne sous le Second Empire (in French). Paris: Armand Colin. ISBN 2-200-37226-4.

Meunier, Florian (2014). Le Paris du moyen âge (in French). Paris: Editions Ouest-France. ISBN 978-2-7373-6217-0.

Rougerie, Jacques (2014). La Commune de 1871. Paris: Presses universitaires de France. ISBN 978-2-13-062078-5.

Sarmant, Thierry (2012). Histoire de Paris: Politique, urbanisme, civilisation (in French). Editions Jean-Paul Gisserot. ISBN 978-2-755-803303.

Schmidt, Joel (2009). Lutece- Paris, des origines a Clovis (in French). Perrin. ISBN 978-2-262-03015-5.

Published in the 17th–18th centuries

"Paris", Topographia Galliae (in German), 1, Frankfurt: Caspar Merian, 1655

Joachim Christoph Nemeitz (1718). Séjour de Paris (in German). Frankfurt: Förster.

Thomas Nugent (1749), "Paris", The Grand Tour, 4: France, London: S. Birt

Richard Brookes (1786), "Paris", The General Gazetteer (6th ed.), London: J.F.C. Rivington

In French

Nicolas de Blégny (1692). Le Livre commode des Adresses de Paris (in French). (see Nicolas de Blégny for information about this author)

Germain Brice (1706), Description nouvelle de la vile de Paris (in French) (5th ed.), Paris: N. Le Gras

Louis Liger (1715). Le voyageur fidèle, ou Le guide des étrangers dans la ville de Paris (in French). Paris: P. Ribou.

Les Curiositez de Paris, de Versailles, de Marly, de Vincennes, de Saint Cloud, et des environs (in French). Claude-Marin Saugrain. 1742.

Les Spectacles de Paris (in French), 1751–1797 (theatre almanac)

Hébert (1761–1773). Almanach Parisien (in French).

Hébert (1766). Dictionnaire Pittoresque et Historique de Paris (in French). Paris: Claude Herissant. v.2

François Parfaict; Claude Parfaict (1767). Dictionnaire des théâtres de Paris (in French). Paris: Rozet.

Pierre-Thomas-Nicolas Hurtaut (1779). Dictionnaire Historique de la Ville de Paris [Historical Dictionary of the City of Paris] (in French).

Louis-Sébastien Mercier (1781–1788). Tableau de Paris (in French). (12 volumes)

Published in the 19th century

1800s-1850s

Francis William Blagdon (1803). Paris as it was and as it is. London: C.and R. Baldwin.

Abraham Rees (1819), "Paris", The Cyclopaedia, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown

Jedidiah Morse; Richard C. Morse (1823), "Paris", A New Universal Gazetteer (4th ed.), New Haven: S. Converse

"Paris", Cabinet Cyclopædia, Cities and Principal Towns of the World, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, 1830, OCLC 2665202

David Brewster, ed. (1832). "Paris". Edinburgh Encyclopædia. Philadelphia: Joseph and Edward Parker.

History of Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day (2nd ed.). Paris: A. and W. Galignani. 1832.

Mariana Starke (1839), "Paris", Travels in Europe (9th ed.), Paris: A. and W. Galignani

Sinnett's Picture of Paris, London: Joseph Masters, 1845

John Thomson (1845), "Paris", New Universal Gazetteer and Geographical Dictionary, London: H.G. Bohn

Francis Coghlan (1853), Miniature Guide to Paris and its Environs, London: J. Onwhyn

1860s-1890s

Charles Knight, ed. (1866). "Paris". English Cyclopaedia. 4, "Geography". London: Bradbury, Evans, & Co.

Adolphe Joanne (1867). Diamond Guide for the Stranger in Paris. Paris: Hachette.

Arthur Mingeaud (1871), Condensed History of Paris, Quebec: Printed at "Morning Chronicle" Office

Handbook for Visitors to Paris, London: John Murray, 1879

Bradshaw's Illustrated Guide through Paris and its Environs, London: W.J. Adams and Sons, 1880, OCLC 19043482

Cassell's Illustrated Guide to Paris. London: Cassell & Co. 1884.

Albert Shaw (1891), "Paris, the Typical Modern City", The Century Magazine, New York, 42

Archibald Wilberforce, ed. (1893). "Paris". Capitals of the Globe. NY: Peter Fenelon Collier.

Norddeutscher Lloyd (1896), "Paris", Guide through Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Holland and England, Berlin: J. Reichmann & Cantor, OCLC 8395555

In French

Jean-Baptiste Pujoulx (1801). Paris à la fin du XVIII. Siecle. (see Jean-Baptiste Pujoulx for information about this author)

Ricard (1828). Véritable conducteur parisien (in French).

Paris; ou, Le livre des cent-et-un [Paris; or, The book of the hundred-and-one] (in French). Paris: Ladvocat. 1831–1834. (15 volumes)

Conseil Municipal (1866), Histoire générale de Paris (in French), OCLC 185294691

v.12, v.17, v.21

Victor Hugo (1867), Paris-Guide (in French)

Published in the 20th century

1900s-1950s

Frederic Harrison (1900). "Paris as an Historic City". The Meaning of History. Macmillan and Company.

Katharine S. MacQuoid; Gilbert S. MacQuoid (1900), In Paris, Boston: L.C. Page & Company

"Paris", Chambers's Encyclopaedia, London: W. & R. Chambers, 1901

Elizabeth Otis Williams (1907), Sojourning, shopping & studying in Paris; a handbook particularly for women, Chicago, A. C. McClurg & co. + Bibliography

Nathaniel Newnham Davis (1911), "Paris", The Gourmet's Guide to Europe (3rd ed.), London: Grant Richards

Mabell S.C. Smith (1913), Twenty Centuries of Paris, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, OCLC 2619740

Handbook to Paris and its Environs (11th ed.), London: Ward, Lock and Co., 1921

1960s-1990s

Walter Benjamin (1982). Das Passagen-Werk [Arcades Project] (in German). ISBN 3518112007.

Donald Olsen (1986). The City as a Work of Art: London, Paris, Vienna. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300042122.

Flanner, Janet. Paris Was Yesterday, 1925-1939 (1988); Primary source; her “Letter from Paris,” in New Yorker magazine

François Loyer, Paris, Nineteenth Century: Architecture and Urbanism, trans. Charles Lynn Clark (New York, 1988)

Vincent Cronin (1989). Paris on the Eve, 1900-1914. New York: Harper Collins. ISBN 0-312-04876-9.

Wiser, William. The Crazy Years: Paris in the Twenties (1990); focus on artists & celebrities, especially expatriates

Annick Pardailhe-Galabrun, The Birth of Intimacy: Privacy and Domestic Life in Early Modern Paris, trans. Jocelyn Phelps (Cambridge, 1991).

Christopher Prendergast, Writing the City: Paris and the Nineteenth Century (Oxford, 1992),

Bernier, Olivier. Fireworks at Dusk: Paris in the Thirties (1993); social, artistic, and political life

Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson. Paris as Revolution: Writing the Nineteenth-Century City (Berkeley, 1994)

Vincent Cronin (1994). Paris:City of Light, 1919-1939. New York: Harper Collins. ISBN 0-00-215191-X.

Jean Favier (1997-04-23). Paris (in French). Fayard. ISBN 2-213-59874-6.

Historical Dictionary of Paris. Landham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1998.

Sharon Marcus, Apartment Stories: City and Home in Nineteenth-Century Paris and London (Berkeley, 1999)

Published in the 21st century

Wiser, William. The twilight years: Paris in the 1930s (Robson Books, 2000); Focus on artists & celebrities, especially expatriates

Harvey, David. Paris, Capital of Modernity (Routledge, 2003)

D.C. Woodcox (2003). "Paris". In Jennifer Speake. Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia. Taylor & Francis. pp. 920–924. ISBN 978-1-57958-424-5.

Colin Jones (2004). Paris: The Biography of a City. New York: Penguin Viking. ISBN 0-670-03393-6.

David Levinson, ed. (2004). "Paris". Encyclopedia of Homelessness. Sage Publications. pp. 441–445. ISBN 978-0-7619-2751-8.

Simone Roux (2009). Paris in the Middle Ages. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 0-8122-4159-2.

Rosemary Wakeman (2009). The Heroic City: Paris, 1945-1958. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-87023-6. online review

Mitchell, Allan. Nazi Paris: The History of an Occupation, 1940-1944 (2010)

Rearick, Charles. Paris Dreams, Paris Memories: The City and Its Mystique (Stanford University Press, 2011). 296 pp. online review

Graham Robb (2011). Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris. W. W. Norton. ISBN 978-0-393-07928-9.

Winter, Jay and Jean-Louis Robert, eds. Capital Cities at War: Volume 2, A Cultural History: Paris, London, Berlin 1914-1919 (2 vol 2012)

Charles Emmerson (2013). "Paris". 1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War. Public Affairs. ISBN 978-1-61039-257-0.

Bibliographies

A. Girault de Saint-Fargeau (1847). Bibliographié historique et topographique de la ville de Paris [Historical and Topographical Bibliography of the City of Paris] (in French).

Valentin Dufour (1882). Bibliographie artistique, historique et litteraire de Paris avant 1789 (in French). Paris: A. Laporte. + Index

Robert C. Brooks (1901), "Paris", Bibliography of Municipal Problems and City Conditions, Municipal Affairs, 5 (2nd ed.), New York: Reform Club, OCLC 1855351

References

Bibliography of Paris Wikipedia

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Contents

List of books, arranged by author

Published in the 17th–18th centuries

Published in the 19th century

Published in the 20th century

Published in the 21st century

Bibliographies

References