{"product_id":"9781429944588","title":"The Other Paris","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA trip through Paris as it will never be again-dark and dank and poor and slapdash and truly bohemian\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eParis, the City of Light, the city of fine dining and seductive couture and intellectual hauteur, was until fairly recently always accompanied by its shadow: the city of the poor, the outcast, the criminal, the eccentric, the willfully nonconforming. In \u003ci\u003eThe Other Paris\u003c\/i\u003e, Luc Sante gives us a panoramic view of that second metropolis, which has nearly vanished but whose traces are in the bricks and stones of the contemporary city, in the culture of France itself, and, by extension, throughout the world.Drawing on testimony from a great range of witnesses-from Balzac and Hugo to assorted boulevardiers, rabble-rousers, and tramps-Sante, whose thorough research is matched only by the vividness of his narration, takes the reader on a whirlwind tour. Richly illustrated with more than three hundred images, \u003ci\u003eThe Other Paris\u003c\/i\u003e scuttles through the knotted streets of pre-Haussmann Paris, through the improvised accommodations of the original bohemians, through the whorehouses and dance halls and hobo shelters of the old city.\u003cbr\u003eA lively survey of labor conditions, prostitution, drinking, crime, and popular entertainment, and of the reporters, \u003ci\u003eréaliste\u003c\/i\u003e singers, pamphleteers, and poets who chronicled their evolution, \u003ci\u003eThe Other Paris\u003c\/i\u003e is a book meant to upend the story of the French capital, to reclaim the city from the bons vivants and the speculators, and to hold a light to the works and lives of those expunged from its center by the forces of profit.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47139301818608,"sku":"9781429944588","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781429944588_p0.jpg?v=1769901750","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781429944588","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}