Paris: An Electronic Tour of the Old City
ISBN: 9781599100098
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Italica Press, Inc.
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Paris (France) -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800; Paris (France) -- History -- Sources;

This interactive work offers first-hand accounts from Paris' origins in Roman Lutetia, through Carolingian and later medieval texts, to important descriptions of the city into the 18th century. It presents the people of the city, their trades and festivals, street life and ceremony and the Parisian underworld, documenting the growing pains of the modern metropolis. 46 paintings, engravings and sketches of cityscapes, exterior and interior views of individual buildings, document street life, trades and craftspeople, processions and other outdoor rituals. 3 interactive maps, c.1400, c.1600 and c.1800. Introduction, bibliography.


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