CHAPTER 1
1.Zone d’Aménagement Concerté, i.e., ‘concerted improvement’ – translator.
2.Ernst Jünger, Journal de guerre, Paris: Juilliard, 1990, p. 491.
3.Alexis de Tocqueville, Recollections, London: Macdonald, 1970, p. 136.
4.Victor Marouck, Juin 1848 [1880], Paris: Spartacus, 1998, p. 101.
CHAPTER 2
1.J.-K. Huysmans, Le Bièvre et Saint-Séverin, Paris: Stock, 1898, p. 10.
2.Auguste Blanqui, Maintenant il faut des armes, Paris: La Fabrique, 2006, p. 397. This letter is dated 1 March 1879.
3.Laure Beaumont-Maillet, Guide du Paris médiéval, Paris: Hazan, 1997, p. 132.
4.To learn to date Paris buildings, see François Loyer’s irreplaceable volume, Paris XIXe siècle. L’immeuble et la rue, Paris: La Fabrique, 1987.
5.The poem entitled ‘Politique’. Written in 1831, it was published in 1853 in Petits châteaux en Bohême.
6.Louis Chevalier, Les Parisiens, Paris: Hachette, 1967, p. 360.
7.Gustave Lefrançais, Souvenirs d’un révolutionnaire, Paris: La Fabrique, 2012.
8.Georges Canguilhem, Vie et mort de Jean Cavaillès [1984], Paris: Allia, 2014.
1.Léon Daudet, Paris vécu, in Souvenirs et polémiques [1929], Paris: Robert Laffont, 1992, p. 1073.
2.See on this subject Laure Lurat’s excellent Passage de l’Odéon, Paris: Fayard, 2003.
3.Gustave Tridon, Les Hébertistes, Brussels, 1871, p. 38.
4.Dolf Oehler, Le Spleen contre l’oubli. Juin 1848, Paris: Payot, 1996, p. 22.
5.Francis Carco, De Montmartre au Quartier Latin [1927], Monaco: Sauret, 1993, p. 123.
6.Louis-Sébastien Mercier, ‘Les Carrières’, in Tableau de Paris [1781], Paris: 1990, p. 36.
7.See Jean-Pierre Babelon, Demeures parisiennes sous Henri IV et Louis XIII, Paris: Hazan, 1991.
8.Mercier, Tableau de Paris, p. 205.
9.Jean-François Cabestan, personal communication.
10.Gérard de Nerval, Selected Writings, London: Penguin, 1999, p. 220.
11.Louis Chevalier, L’Assassinat de Paris, Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1977.
12.According to François Chaslin. Chaslin was a journalist at this time, and quotes an article of his from Macadam magazine in Les Paris de François Mitterrand, Paris: Gallimard, 1985.
13.See Françoise Fromonot, La Campagne des Halles. Les nouveaux malheurs de Paris, Paris: La Fabrique, 2005.
14.Mercier, Tableau de Paris.
15.Marcel Proust, Time Regained. Remembrance of Things Past, London: Penguin, 1983, vol. 3, p. 779.
1.François Loyer, Paris XIXe siècle, Paris: Hazan, 1987.
2.On Meryon, in ‘The Salon of 1859’. The whole passage runs:
The majesty of accumulated stone, the bell-towers pointing their fingers to heaven, the obelisks of industry vomiting against the firmament their coalitions of smoke, the prodigious scaffoldings of monuments under repair, applying to the solid body of the architecture their modern architecture of such a paradoxical beauty, the tumultuous sky charged with anger and spite, the depth of perspectives augmented by the thought of all the dramas they contain, none of the complex elements of which the painful and glorious backdrop of civilization is composed was forgotten.
3.André Breton, Arcanum 17, Los Angeles: Green Integer, 2004, p. 159.
4.Marouck, Juin 1848, p. 37.
5.Charles Jeanne, À cinq heures nous serons tous morts!, introduced by Thomas Bouchet, Paris: Vendémiaire, 2011. See also Thomas Bouchet, Le Roi et les barricades. Une histoire des 5 et 6 juin 1832, Paris: Seli Arslan, 2000.
6.See Oehler, Le Spleen contre l’oubli.
7.The Works of Heinrich Heine (trans. Leland), vol. 7, London: Heinemann, 1893, ‘French Affairs’, p. 280.
8.Renzo Piano, Carnet de travail, Paris: Seuil, 1997.
9.See the excellent interview with Piano and Rogers by Antoine Picon in Du plateau Beaubourg au Centre Pompidou, Paris: Éditions du Centre Pompidou, 1987. The following quotations are taken from this work.
10.On all these points it is useful to read François Chaslin, Un Corbusier, Paris: Seuil, 2015.
1.For further detail on these events, see Éric Hazan, A History of the Barricade, London: Verso, 2015, chapter 4.
2.Quoted in M. Vimont, Histoire de la rue Saint-Denis de ses origines à nos jours (3 vols), Paris: Les Presses modernes, 1936, vol. 1, p. 327.
3.Ibid., vol. 3, p. 51.
4.Ibid., p. 68.
5.Ibid., p. 83.
6.Ibid., vol. 2, p. 225.
7.Thierry Schaffauser, Les Luttes des putes, Paris: La Fabrique, 2014.
8.Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999, p. 42.
9.Daniel Stern, Histoire de la révolution de 1848 [1850], Paris: Balland, 1985, pp. 619–20.
10.André Breton, Nadja, New York: Grove Press, 1960, p. 32. The printing works of Le Matin were on the corner of the Boulevard Poissonnière and the Rue du Faubourg-Poissonnière.
11.Mémoires d’outre-tombe, Book 32, Chapter 9.
12.Jean-Paul Sartre, Words, London: Penguin, 2000, p. 113.
13.Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, Pages From the Goncourt Journal, New York: NYRB Classics, 2007, p. 30.
CHAPTER 6
1.The specific character of the faubourgs is often lost in standard translations. Here for example, ‘A squalid street shaken by heavy dump-carts’ and ‘In the muddy maze of some old neighbourhood’ – translator.
2.Thomas Clerc, Paris, musée du XXIe siècle. Le dixième arrondissement, Paris: Gallimard, 2007, p. 13.
3.One of the sketches in Paris vu par… (1964). The others were the work of Jean-Luc Godard, Érich Rohmer, Claude Chabrol, Jean Douchet and Jean-Daniel Pollet.
4.A contemporary nickname for Louis Bonaparte – translator.
5.Excellent photos of these statues, with the names of their creators, can be found at: www.nella-buscot.com/jardins_paris_10_gare_du_nord_1.php.
6.Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove. Remembrance of Things Past, London: Penguin, 1983, vol. 1, p. 694.
7.On this painting, see Éric Hazan, The Invention of Paris, London: Verso, 2010, pp. 352–4.
8.Heroine of an eponymous comic strip – translator.
9.Anna Maria Ortese, Silenzio a Milano, Bari: Laterza, 1958. She is also the author of one of the finest books on Paris, Le Murmure de Paris, Paris: Mille et une nuits, 1999.
CHAPTER 7
1.For details, see Lucien Lambeau, Histoire des communes annexées à Paris en 1859, vol. 5, Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1923.
2.Victor Marouk, Juin 1848 [1877], Paris: Spartacus, 1998.
3.Gérard de Nerval, Selected Writings, p. 207.
4.Maurice Culot (ed.), La Goutte d’Or, faubourg de Paris, Brussels: AAM, 1988.
5.Léon Gozlan, Balzac en pantoufles, Paris: Michel Lévy, 1862; cf. Hazan, The Invention of Paris, p. 324.
6.Marcel Proust, The Captive. Remembrance of Things Past, London: Penguin, 1983, vol. 3, pp. 1 and 113.
7.Sarah Kofman, Rue Ordener, rue Labat, Paris: Galilée, 1994; Robert Bober, Quoi de neuf sur la guerre?, Paris: POL, 1993.
8.Jean Rolin, La Clôture, Paris: POL, 2004.
9.Ibid., p. 23.
1.Chevalier, L’Assassinat de Paris, part 3, ‘Les pouvoirs et les choix’.
2.Guy Debord, Panegyric, Volumes 1 and 2, London: Verso, 2004, p. 38.
3.Rolin, La Clôture, p. 35.
4.Lucien Rebatet, Les Décombres [1942], in Le Dossier Rebatet, Paris: Robert Laffont, 2015, p. 138.