{"title":"Books by Eric Hazan","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781786632593","title":"A Walk Through Paris","description":"\u003cb\u003eA walker’s guide to Paris, taking us through its past, present and possible futures\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eEric Hazan, author of the acclaimed Invention of Paris, takes the reader on a walk from Ivry to Saint-Denis, roughly following the meridian that divides Paris into east and west, and passing such familiar landmarks as the Luxembourg Gardens, the Pompidou Centre, the Gare du Nord and Montmartre, as well as forgotten alleyways and arcades. Weaving historical anecdotes, geographical observations, and literary references, Hazan’s walk guides us through an unknown Paris. With the aid of maps, he delineates the most fascinating and forgotten parts of the city’s past and present.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlanning and modernization have accelerated the erasure of its revolutionary history, yet through walking and observation, Hazan shows how we can regain our knowledge of the city of Robespierre, the Commune, Sartre, and the May ’68 uprising.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on his own life story, as surgeon, publisher and social critic, Hazan vividly illustrates the interplay and concord between a city and the personality it forms.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56305072472437,"sku":"9781786632593","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781786632593_c582631e-4e80-4e09-b73d-729bccd6b3e7.jpg?v=1786025636"},{"product_id":"9781784781286","title":"A History of the Barricade","description":"\u003cb\u003eHow the French invented the barricade, and its symbolic impact on popular protests throughout history\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the history of European revolutions, the barricade stands as a glorious emblem. Its symbolic importance arises principally from the barricades of Eric Hazan’s native Paris, where they were instrumental in the revolts of the nineteenth century, helping to shape the political life of a continent.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The barricade was always a makeshift construction (the word derives from \u003ci\u003ebarrique\u003c\/i\u003e or barrel), and in working-class districts these ersatz fortifications could spread like wildfire. They doubled as a stage, from which insurgents could harangue soldiers and subvert their allegiance. Their symbolic power persisted into May 1968 and, more recently, the Occupy movements.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Hazan traces the many stages in the barricade’s evolution, from the Wars of Religion through to the Paris Commune, drawing on the work of thinkers throughout the periods examined to illustrate and bring to life the violent practicalities of revolutionary uprising.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56305272914293,"sku":"9781784781286","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781784781286_d7b2d25f-1613-4d76-ab9c-b5f3c0ec8f10.jpg?v=1786026039"},{"product_id":"9781839764660","title":"Paris in Turmoil","description":"\u003cb\u003eA kaleidoscopic look at Paris’s ever-changing forms and people\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Since the disastrous Pompidou years, working-class Paris has been steadily nibbled away, either by destruction  or more insidiously by a kind of internal colonization. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eTake for example a small outlying district populated by Arabs, blacks and poor whites twenty years ago, the L’Olive neighbourhood north of La Chapelle The area is noted as pleasant, people frequent it and explore it, and as the rents are low some settle there. Others follow, first friends and then anyone else. Rents go up, buildings are renovated, bars open, then an organic food shop, a vegan restaurant... The earlier indigenous inhabitants are driven out by the rising rents and settle further away, in Saint-Denis if they are lucky, or else in Garges-lès-Gonesse, Goussainville or God knows where.    \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"But new neighbourhoods are emerging, for example the Chinese quarter of Bas Belleville, which has grown since the 1970s to the point that in some streets, such as Rue Civiale or Rue Rampal, the restaurants and shops are all Chinese, with many Chinese sex workers on Boulevard de la Villette. These Chinese almost all come from Wenzhou, a large province south of Shanghai, whose inhabitants are reputedly known for their commercial skills.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eParis is constantly changing as a living organism, both for better and for worse. This book is an incitement to open our eyes and lend an ear to the tumult of this incomparable capital, from the Périphérique to Place Vendôme, its markets of Aligre and Belleville, its cafés and \u003ci\u003etabacs\u003c\/i\u003e, its history from Balzac to Sartre. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn some thirty succinct vignettes, from bookshops to beggars, Art Nouveau to street sounds, Parisian writers to urban warts, Jacobins to Surrealism, Hazan offers a host of invaluable aperçus, illuminated by a matchless knowledge of his native city.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56307595575669,"sku":"9781839764660","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781839764660_55647ebc-490a-4f87-b850-40e30f29f997.jpg?v=1786027836"},{"product_id":"9781839767258","title":"Balzac's Paris","description":"\u003cb\u003eExploring Paris arm in arm with Balzac, nineteenth-century France’s most famous novelist and observer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Balzac’s vast \u003ci\u003eHuman Comedy\u003c\/i\u003e, a body of ninety-one completed novels and stories, he endeavoured to create a complete picture of contemporary French society and manners. Within this work is a loving ode to Paris and an incomparable introduction to the first capital of the modern world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo this ageless city he makes a declaration of love in an accumulation of finely observed detail – the cafés, landmarks, avenues, parks – and captures the populace in countless meticulously drawn portraits: its lawyers, grisettes, journalists, concierges, usurers, salesmen, speculators.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBalzac gathered the elements of this Paris by sauntering through it. ‘To saunter is a science,’ he writes, ‘it is the gastronomy of the eye. To take a walk is to vegetate; to saunter is to live.’ Eric Hazan follows in Balzac’s footsteps, criss-crossing the city in the novelist’s outsize boots, running between printers, publishers, coffee merchants, mistresses and friends, stopping for a moment, struck by a detail that would be fixed in Balzac’s photographic memory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMore than a tour of the city, \u003ci\u003eBalzac’s Paris\u003c\/i\u003e is an attempt to measure the soul of a city as recovered in its finest literature.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56307599278453,"sku":"9781839767258","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781839767258_5aaca2e4-5b2e-48ef-b372-88d77d8139f1.jpg?v=1786027878"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-eric-hazan.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}