# Paris

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- Authors: [Jeremy Black](https://www.bookquiver.com/jeremy-black)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2025-03-06

## Description

A concise history of Paris and the great events and personalities, from prehistory to the present, that have shaped its unique cultural legacy. Paris has long been celebrated as a place of style, wit and sensuality. In this deft and broad-ranging narrative, Jeremy Black demonstrates that the history of Paris is about more than a city: it is the history of a culture, a society and a state that has impacted the rest of the world through centuries of changing fortunes. Black explores how a humble Gallic capital grew into a flourishing medieval city full of spectacular palaces and cathedrals. He depicts the opulent courts of Louis XIV and XV and the Revolution that tore French society apart; the Belle Époque and the destruction of World Wars I and II, leading us on to the Paris of today: one of the most iconic cities in the world.

## Editions

### Paris

- Publisher: Thames and Hudson
- ISBN: 978-05-0029-743-8
- Pages: 256
- Published: 2025-03-06
- Language: en_GB