The Other Paris By Luc Sante Summary

Luc Sante in this book reveal the dark side of the city of Paris, in historically how the city evolved, and what and how the dark side of the city of Paris. Nowaday, the old, crowded, swarming, surly cities are at least half forgotten. But in this great chronicle, Luc Sante recall when Paris was rougher, when the group poor, ough, unregulated, underworld, thrived there; maybe Paris was also less rough, in that there was room for nearly everyone all the way down the social ladder. Hanging over The Other Paris is the contemporary curse that perhaps hit Paris first, of city that have become bland transnational stopping places for the privilege. Magisterial as ever, Luc Sante returns us to the flavor, texture, savor, shout, and clash of the by gone city.

"The Other Paris" is a heart breaking spectacle, immense in intellectual and political scope and emotional reach. People by crooks and movie stars, gamblers and thinkers, the worlds premier city of dream is rendered, through Luc Sante fine hand, historians eye, and poets heart, into a place we hardly knew a world of hitherto unknown mysteries and realities. A grand journey
Never-theless, there was room for the full range of class, and every one was some how equally involved in the common task of constituting a city. It was an eco system in which every aspect of the physical fabric was employed and drained and periodicall revitalized, in which everything from rags and bones to idea and fads was recycled and where nothing was disposed of until it was completely spent. So much of life was conduct in public that an entire education could be procure just by walking around, from riverbank to market to square to boulevard, from the great poem of display, Balzac, to the performance of the mountebank, from the dance hall to the public execution, from the news vendor to the dandies, from the prostitute to the bill poster, from the east to the