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Paris ̉vol d'oiseau (1789-1914) -- Violent origins: the taking of the Bastille (July 1789) -- Killing the king: Place de la Rv̌olution/Concorde (21 January 1793) -- Vendm̥e/Invalides: the Paris of the Bonapartes (1802-1871) -- Heart of the city: Place de Grv̈e/Ht̥el de Ville (1789-1871) -- The miraculous medal: Rue du Bac (1830) -- Killing the living, burying the dead: Pr̈e-Lachaise (1804-1945) -- Conversion? Paul Claudel at Notre-Dame (Christmas 1886) -- Church prowling: the back-to-front pilgrimage of Joris-Karl Huysmans (1884-1892)-- Marble versus iron: Sacr-̌Coeur and the Eiffel Tower (1871-1914) -- Operation Spring breeze: Rue des Rosiers, Vel' d'hiv', Drancy (July-August 1942) -- Purging the city: Paris libre (August 1944-October 1945) -- Conclusion: blood in the city, 1789-1945 -- Sacrificial victims: a chronology. |
