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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: An Autopsy on an Old Whore
Part One: The Old Ocean, Prehistory to AD 987
1 Dirty Water
2 Severed Heads
3 Sea Gods
4 Infidels
Part Two: City of Joy, 988–1460
5 A Cruel and Brilliant Place
6 Sacred Geometry
7 Lovers and Scholars
8 Saints, Poets, Thieves
9 Destroying the Temple
10 Rebels and Riots
11 The English Devils
12 Machaberey’s Dance
13 Maps and Legends
Part Three: Slaughterhouse City, 1461–1669
14 Dark with Excess of Light
15 Choose Now–The Mass or Death!
16 As Above, So Below
17 Sinister Days
18 Making Paradise Visible
19 A Marvellous Confusion
Part Four: New Rome and Old Sodom, 1670–1799
20 Splendour and Misery
21 Shadow and Stench
22 Porno Manifesto
23 Night-Vision
24 From Revolt to Revolution
25 The Bloody Path to Utopia
Part Five: Dream House, Dream City, 1800–1850
26 Empire
27 Occupation and Restoration
28 The Bourgeois World of Louis-Philippe
29 Balzac’s Mirror
30 The Age of Contempt
Part Six: Queen of the World, 1851–1899
31 The Cretin’s Empire
32 Ghosts in Daylight
33 Red Lightning
34 After the Orgy
Part Seven: Magnetic Fields, 1900–1939
35 New Spirits
36 New Wars
37 Paris Peasants
38 Darkness Falls
Part Eight: The Capital of Treason, 1940–1944
39 Night and Fog
40 Patriots and Traitors
Part Nine: Society of the Spectacle, 1945–2005
41 Landscapes After the Battle
42 The Seventh ‘Wilaya’
43 An Obscure Conspiracy
44 The Killing of Paris?
Epilogue: Paris Underground
Notes
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