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In Old Paris - An Anthology of Source Descriptions, 1323-1790 (Paperback)
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In Old Paris - An Anthology of Source Descriptions, 1323-1790 (Paperback)
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"In Old Paris" presents five descriptions of the city from 1323 to
1790. These include A Treatise of the Praises of Paris by Jean de
Jandun (1323), The Description of the City of Paris by Guillebert
de Mets (1407-34), A Description of Paris by the Venetian
Ambassador's Secretary (1577-79), Giovanni Paolo Marana's Pleasant
Critique of Paris (1692) and Letters from Paris by the Russian
traveller Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin (1790). Paris was changed
forever by the upheaval of the French Revolution during the last
decade of the eighteenth century and by the physical transformation
of the city in the mid-nineteenth. Old Paris does survive, however,
in many of its architectural monuments and also in these
fascinating urban descriptions by residents of, and visitors to,
the city. This volume includes a select bibliography on Parisian
history, urbanism and architecture; an architectural gazetteer; an
appendix on the size and population of Paris from the fourteenth to
the eighteenth century; a glossary, and an index.
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