Paris: The Secret History

£9.99

Paris: the city of light and the city of darkness. It’s a place that’s gone through endless revolution and continued reinvention. Over the last two thousand years it’s drawn those with the highest ideals and the lowest morals. Andrew Hussey, a contributing editor to the Observer Sports Magazine and Head of French and Comparative Literaturee at the University of London in Paris, brings together the stories of the nineteenth-century flaneurs, the survivors and victims of several ravaging plagues, Notre Dame’s builders, those that turned the Seine red with blood on St Bartholomew’s Day, and many others - including the rioters in the suburbs in October 2005. As the Sunday Times said, no visitor to France should be without it.