Volume 35, Number 20 · December 22, 1988
City Lights
By James Joll
Threshold of a New World: Intellectuals and the Exile Experience in Paris, 1830–1848
by Lloyd S. Kramer
Cornell University Press, 297 pp., $31.50
Restoration and Reaction, 1815–1848
by André Jardin, by André-Jean Tudesq, translated by Elborg Forster
Cambridge University Press, 409 pp., $16.95 (paper)
Paris has long been a powerful symbol as well as a city, and it has symbolized many contradictory things. It is the city of luxury and high glamour—'centre de luxe et des lumières,' as the anarchist P-J Proudhon called it, a city to which men were attracted by, as Gustave Flaubert wrote, 'les femmes, le luxe, et tout ce que comporte l'existence parisienne.' But at the same time it is the city of revolutions, not just of the great French Revolution but of the revolutions of 1830, 1848, of the Commune of 1871, and even—perhaps a last pale reflection—of the évènements of 1968.
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