City On the Seine: Paris in the Time of Richelieu and Louis XIV, 1614-1715 by Andrew Trout - 0312129335 - Compare Discount Book Prices & Save up to 90%

Andrew Trout's new book on Paris during the period preceding the end Louis XIV's reign is a fascinating social history of the city anchored by the lives of two of its most famous citizens: Cardinal Richelieu and Louis XIV. Beginning with the emergence of Richelieu as a political force and concluding with the end of Louis XIV's reign, Trout describes the city as it looked during the seventeenth century and answers a myriad of interesting questions: Did the houses have numbers? Were residential buildings flush with the street? What was anyone likely to see along the River Seine? By answering such questions, Trout constructs a social history of the city that is unequalled. Trout's book is illustrated with maps and engravings that bring the city to life. City on the Seine is an indispensable work of social history.

		City On the Seine: Paris in the Time of Richelieu and Louis XIV, 1614-1715 by Andrew Trout ISBN-10: 0312129335 ISBN-10: 0-312-12933-5 ISBN-13: 9780312129330 ISBN-13: 978-0-312-12933-0 Hardcover 1996-05-15 St. Martin's Press Find Lowest Price
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Product Description Andrew Trout's new book on Paris during the period preceding the end Louis XIV's reign is a fascinating social history of the city anchored by the lives of two of its most famous citizens: Cardinal Richelieu and Louis XIV. Beginning with the emergence of Richelieu as a political force and concluding with the end of Louis XIV's reign, Trout describes the city as it looked during the seventeenth century and answers a myriad of interesting questions: Did the houses have numbers? Were residential buildings flush with the street? What was anyone likely to see along the River Seine? By answering such questions, Trout constructs a social history of the city that is unequalled. Trout's book is illustrated with maps and engravings that bring the city to life. City on the Seine is an indispensable work of social history.
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Interaction between city and society in Paris, 17th century A very interesting study that does not only talk about a part of the History of France: it also demonstrates with vivid examples that a city is a living being by itself, which is not only transformed by its inhabitants but transforms and influences them as well. Paris and the Parisians are two species living in symbiosis, and Trout's excellent work about "historical socio-urbanism" gives us both a detailed view of baroque Paris and an interesting insight about our own present-day cities and our own relationship with them, making us learn that the man-city interaction works in both directions.