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The Marais: The Story of a Quartier

The Marais: The Story of a Quartier

Reader, Keith

Hardcover

Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures, Book 71

JudaismFrench HistoryGLBTQIA Studies

ISBN10: 1789621046
ISBN13: 9781789621044
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: Jul 14 2020
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

A cultural history of one of Paris's most fascinating and variegated areas, whose history can be summarized as 'from riches to rags and back again.' The Marais was the beating heart of fashionable Paris from the Middle Ages through to the time of Louis XIV, when the court's move to Versailles marked the start of a decline in its fortunes. Thereafter it became a working-class, largely Jewish area, sometimes described as a 'ghetto', and by the early twentieth century was in a parlous condition from which it was extricated by the Paris City Council and the 1960s restoration plan of André Malraux (which did not go without criticism and opposition). Its most recent avatar has been as the best-known gay quartier of the capital, though again this identity has not been a straightforward or always easily-accepted one. The stress throughout will be on representations - literary, cinematic, autobiographical, photographic and in graphic-novel form - as much as if not more than the unfolding of historical events.

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