MAP OF PARIS
Plan Guilmin: ‘Nouveau Plan de Paris Monumental’ (Leconte et Guilmin, Paris, 1900).
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SECTION ONE
1. From the ‘Plan Turgot’, by Louis Bretez (map commissioned by Michel-Étienne Turgot), 1734–39. The Art Archive/JFB.
2. Louis-Léopold Boilly, The Galleries of the Palais Royal (1809; the original version, now lost, was shown at the 1804 Paris Salon). Some of the gentlemen may be British visitors, taking advantage of the Peace of Amiens (1802–03). RMN/Musée Carnavalet, Paris.
3. View taken from under the Arch of Givry (1807), by John Claude Nattes, engraved by John Hill: Pont au Change, Conciergerie and Tour de l’Horloge. The arcades, flooded at high tide, ran under the Quai de Gesvres and later formed part of a tunnel in the Métro. RMN/Château de Versailles/Gérard Blot.
4. ‘Monsieur, someone has robbed me of a thousand-franc note’: Honoré Daumier’s view of Vidocq’s Bureau des Renseignements. Le Charivari, 6 November 1836. Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections Department, Brandeis University, Massachusetts.
5. Gustave Le Gray, Paris, View of Montmartre (a montage: cityscape, c. 1849–50; sky, c. 1855–56). Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
6. ‘Cross-section of a Parisian house on 1 January 1845’, by Bertall (Albert d’Arnoux). Le Diable à Paris, vol. II (1846). Private collection.
7. ‘Le Stryge’ at Notre-Dame (1853), by Charles Nègre. The man is the photographer Henri Le Secq. The streets below were demolished to make way for the new Hôtel-Dieu hospital. RMN/Musée d’Orsay, Paris/Hervé Lewandowski.
8. The Siege of Paris, 1870, by R. Briant: the Prussian army to the south of Paris, and Thiers’s fortifications, on the line of the present Boulevards des Maréchaux, just inside the Périphérique. Rex Features/Roger-Viollet.
9. The Hôtel de Ville, torched by Communards. June 1871. Rex Features/Roger-Viollet.
10. Gustave Caillebotte, Young Man at His Window (1875): the artist’s brother at the corner of Rue de Miromesnil and Rue de Lisbonne, with Boulevard Malesherbes in the background. Bridgeman Art Library/Private Collection.
11. Camille Pissarro, Avenue de l’Opéra, Sun, Winter Morning (1898), from the Grand Hôtel du Louvre. RMN/Musée des Beaux-Arts, Reims/Gérard Blot.
12. Universal Exhibition of 1900: Champ de Mars station, Celestial Globe and Maréorama (an attraction simulating a sea voyage from Paris to Yokohama). RMN/Musée d’Orsay/Hervé Lewandowski.
SECTION TWO
13. The floods of 1910 and the Nord-Sud Métro before its inauguration. Maurice Branger (1910). Rex Features/Roger-Viollet.
14. Le Corbusier, ‘Plan Voisin’ (1925). ‘How can we deal with the problem of Paris?’ The ‘great East–West throughway of Paris offers the City Council the chance to launch a gigantic financial enterprise.’ The two tiny blobs in the central square are the Porte Saint-Denis and the Porte Saint-Martin. © ADAGP, Banque d’Images, Paris 2010, and DACS, all rights reserved, 2010.
15. Albert Speer, Adolf Hitler and Arno Breker being filmed on the terrace of the Palais de Chaillot, 23 June 1940. By Heinrich Hoffmann. BPK.
16. ‘Playground. Children only. No Jews.’ November 1942. Rex Features/Roger-Viollet.
17. Statues used as scrap metal during the Occupation. In the foreground: the Marquis de Condorcet, by Jacques Perrin. The statue was later recast and restored to the Quai de Conti. By Pierre Jahan, 1941. Rex Features/Roger-Viollet.
18. The Liberation of Paris: FFI Resistants at a window of the Préfecture de Police, 25 August 1944. Rex Features/Roger-Viollet.
19. Mona Lisa returns to the Louvre from a castle in the Quercy, June 1945. Rex Features/Roger-Viollet.
21. Barricade on the Boulevard Saint-Germain near Rue Hautefeuille, May 1968. By Alain Dejean. © Alain Dejean/Sygma/Corbis.
22. Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir selling La Cause du peuple, 1970. Bruno Barbey/Magnum Photos.
23. The Arc de Triomphe, from ‘Le Plitch’, in Mémoires d’outre-espace (1983, 1990, 1992) by Enki Bilal. ‘The Government and I shall soon be in a position to offer you rational explanations for this delicate problem!…’ © Les Humanoïdes Associés S.A. – Genève 1990.
24. The Sacré-Cœur de Montmartre and the route of the Eurostar, looking west from the Col de la Chapelle. Photograph by the author.
25. President Nicolas Sarkozy inaugurating the ‘Historial Charles de Gaulle’ at Les Invalides, 22 February 2008. By Melanie Frey. © Melanie Frey/epa/Corbis.
ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT
Rex Features/Roger-Viollet.
Rex Features/Roger-Viollet.
Above. Topfoto/Granger Collection.
Below. Rex Features/Roger-Viollet.
Rex Features/Roger-Viollet.
Author’s photograph.
1. From the ‘Plan Turgot’, by Louis Bretez (map commissioned by Michel-Étienne Turgot), 1734–39.
2. Louis-Léopold Boilly, The Galleries of the Palais Royal (1809; the original version, now lost, was shown at the 1804 Paris Salon). Some of the gentlemen may be British visitors, taking advantage of the Peace of Amiens (1802–03).
3. View taken from under the Arch of Givry (1807), by John Claude Nattes, engraved by John Hill: Pont au Change, Conciergerie and Tour de l’Horloge. The arcades, flooded at high tide, ran under the Quai de Gesvres and later formed part of a tunnel in the Métro.
4. ‘Monsieur, someone has robbed me of a thousand-franc note’: Honoré Daumier’s view of Vidocq’s Bureau des Renseignements. Le Charivari, 6 November 1836.
5. Gustave Le Gray, Paris, View of Montmartre (a montage: cityscape, c. 1849–50; sky, c. 1855–56).
6. ‘Cross-section of a Parisian house on 1 January 1845’, by Bertall (Albert d’Arnoux). Le Diable à Paris, vol. II (1846).
7. ‘Le Stryge’ at Notre-Dame (1853), by Charles Nègre. The man is the photographer Henri Le Secq. The streets below were demolished to make way for the new Hôtel-Dieu hospital.
8. The Siege of Paris, 1870, by R. Briant: the Prussian army to the south of Paris, and Thiers’s fortifications, on the line of the present Boulevards des Maréchaux, just inside the Périphérique.
9. The Hôtel de Ville, torched by Communards. June 1871.
10. Gustave Caillebotte, Young Man at His Window (1875): the artist’s brother at the corner of Rue de Miromesnil and Rue de Lisbonne, with Boulevard Malesherbes in the background.
11. Camille Pissarro, Avenue de l’Opéra, Sun, Winter Morning (1898), from the Grand Hôtel du Louvre.
12. Universal Exhibition of 1900: Champ de Mars station, Celestial Globe and Maréorama (an attraction simulating a sea voyage from Paris to Yokohama).
13. The floods of 1910 and the Nord-Sud Métro before its inauguration. Maurice Branger (1910).
14. Le Corbusier, ‘Plan Voisin’ (1925). ‘How can we deal with the problem of Paris?’ The ‘great East–West throughway of Paris offers the City Council the chance to launch a gigantic financial enterprise.’ The two tiny blobs in the central square are the Porte Saint-Denis and the Porte Saint-Martin.
15. Albert Speer, Adolf Hitler and Arno Breker being filmed on the terrace of the Palais de Chaillot, 23 June 1940. By Heinrich Hoffmann.
16. ‘Playground. Children only. No Jews.’ November 1942.
17. Statues used as scrap metal during the Occupation. In the foreground: the Marquis de Condorcet, by Jacques Perrin. The statue was later recast and restored to the Quai de Conti. By Pierre Jahan, 1941.
18. The Liberation of Paris: FFI Resistants at a window of the Préfecture de Police, 25 August 1944.
19. Mona Lisa returns to the Louvre from a castle in the Quercy, June 1945.
21. Barricade on the Boulevard Saint-Germain near Rue Hautefeuille, May 1968. By Alain Dejean.
22. Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir selling La Cause du peuple, 1970.
23. The Arc de Triomphe, from ‘Le Plitch’, in Mémoires d’outre-espace (1983) by Enki Bilal. ‘The Government and I shall soon be in a position to offer you rational explanations for this delicate problem!…’
24. The Sacré-Cœur de Montmartre and the route of the Eurostar, looking west from the Col de la Chapelle.
25. President Nicolas Sarkozy inaugurating the ‘Historial Charles de Gaulle’ at Les Invalides, 22 February 2008. By Melanie Frey.