Paris Dreams, Paris Memories: The City and Its Mystique

"A rich and entertaining history of the French capital's predominant myths and 'image-making' from the nineteenth century to the present." —Roxanne Panchasi, H-France Review

How did Paris become the world favorite it is today? Charles Rearick argues that we can best understand Paris as several cities in one, each with its own history and its own imaginary shaped by dream and memory. Paris has long been at once a cosmopolitan City of Light and of modernity, a patchwork of time-resistant vill...