Roissy Express - A Journey Through the Paris Suburbs (Paperback)

Accompanied by photographer Anaik Frantz, Francois Maspero embarked on a journey along the RER, the express subway which leads through the Paris suburbs. Getting off the train at each stop, he and Frantz present a picture of daily life in France which tourists seldom see: a world where names don't make sense, where immigrants from Burkino Faso live in run-down tower-blocks called Debussy on the avenue Karl Marx, their children dodging the police between the lycee Jules Valles and the Yuri Gagarin youth-club; a world where there are still memories of the Commune, the Popular Front or the camp at Drancy from where French officials sent a hundred thousand Jews to Auschwitz; a world where no one is a racist, but National Front posters are everywhere. Maspero's aim is to put this world back on the map.

General

Imprint:	Verso Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	July 1994
Authors:	Francois Maspero
Dimensions:	236 x 157 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	276
ISBN-13:	978-0-86091-698-7
Categories:	Books > Sport & Leisure > Transport: general interest > Trains & railways: general interest Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Urban communities
LSN:	0-86091-698-7
Barcode:	9780860916987

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