A cultural history of one of Paris’s most fascinating and
variegated areas, whose history can be summarized as ‘from riches
to rags and back again.’ The Marais was the beating heart of
fashionable Paris from the Middle Ages through to the time of Louis
XIV, when the court’s move to Versailles marked the start of a
decline in its fortunes. Thereafter it became a working-class,
largely Jewish area, sometimes described as a ‘ghetto’, and by
the early twentieth century was in a parlous condition from which
it was extricated by the Paris City Council and the 1960s
restoration plan of André Malraux (which did not go without
criticism and opposition). Its most recent avatar has been as the
best-known gay quartier of the capital, though again this identity
has not been a straightforward or always easily-accepted one. The
stress throughout will be on representations – literary,
cinematic, autobiographical, photographic and in graphic-novel form
– as much as if not more than the unfolding of historical events.
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