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Respectable people... What bastards!'Unjustly deported to Devil's Island following Louis-Napoleon's coup-d'état in December 1851, Florent Quenu escapes and returns to Paris. He finds the city changed beyond recognition. The old Marché des Innocents has been knocked down as part of Haussmann's grand programme of urban reconstruction to make way for Les Halles, the spectacular new food markets. Disgusted by a bourgeois society whose devotion to food is inseparable from its devotion to the Government, Florentattempts an insurrection. Les Halles, apocalyptic and destructive, play an active role in Zola's picture of a world in which food and the injustice of society are inextricably linked.The Belly of Paris (Le Ventre de Paris) is the third volume in Zola's famous cycle of twenty novels, Les Rougon-Macquart. It introduces the painter Claude Lantier and in its satirical representation of the bourgeoisie and capitalism complements Zola's other great novels of social conflict and urban poverty.
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The Candidate is one of the most masterful, psychologically penetrating novels in Armenian diaspora literature. Published in 1967 at a time of political awakening among the descendants of survivors of the Armenian genocide, the novel explores themes of trauma, forgiveness, reconciliation, friendship, and sacrifice, and examines the relationship between victim and perpetrator.The book opens in 1927 in Paris after Minas has found his friend Vahakns body on the floor of the apartment they share. In a fragmentary way, Minas tells of his meeting Vahakn in the cafés of the Latin Quarter; the friendship that joins them; their conversations with Ziya, a Turkish student in Paris; Vahakns murder of Ziya; and Vahakns suicide. At the core of the novel is the note Vahakn leaves Minas to explain the enigma of Ziyas murder and his own suicide. The letter recounts Vahakns and his mothers deportation from their village in the Ottoman Empire; his mothers death and Vahakns adoption by a Turkish woman, Fatma, who rapes and abuses him; his feelings of alienation and self-estrangement in France; and his inability to adapt to life after trauma.Known for his innovation of the Western Armenian novel, Vorpouni challenges the narrative elements of the conventional novel by playing with subjectivity and linearity. His melding of contemporary French literary and intellectual currents produces a literary and cultural hybrid unique in Western Armenian literature.
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This historical discourse, delivered at the general assembly of the Society of the History of Paris on May 11, 1897, explores the formation and purpose of the society. It highlights the founders' motivations and the unique challenges they faced in establishing a historical society in Paris, a city characterized by its cosmopolitan nature and diverse population. The discourse emphasizes the society's role in preserving the rich cultural and historical heritage of Paris amidst rapid urban transformations. It also underscores the founders' dedication to fostering a collective passion for Paris's history and their efforts to unite disparate elements of the city's population through a shared interest in its past. The text is intended for historians, scholars, and enthusiasts of Paris's history.
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Communauté habile et ingénieuse, multitude licencieuse, naïve et bornée, foule dangereuse et subversive : aux yeux de ses commentateurs, le peuple de Paris semble soutenir toutes les contradictions. À la fois pluriel et singulier, il constitue une masse aux contours informes, une hydre aux milliers de têtes, aussi indomptable pour l'administrateur du XVIIIe siècle qu'insaisissable pour l'observateur du XXIe siècle qui, avec la prudente distance du recul historique, chercherait à en tracer le profil. "Paris et ses peuples" fait écho à l'ouvrage programmatique de Daniel Roche, qui annonçait en 1981 un important renouvellement de l'histoire socioculturelle sur la capitale. En recentrant l'analyse sur les gestes quotidiens et les maux ordinaires de ses classes laborieuses, l'auteur du "Peuple de Paris" inaugurait un chantier aux multiples avenues, invitant un foisonnement historiographique dont ce livre se fait en partie témoin. À travers dix-huit nouvelles perspectives, celui-ci propose de croiser les regards sur l'espace parisien pour appréhender la diversité de ses acteurs, l'enchevêtrement de ses réseaux de sociabilités, les discours antagonistes qui le représentent et l'encadrent. Continuellement modelée par les acteurs sociaux qui la sillonnent et se l'approprient, la cité fabrique réciproquement, façonnant les expériences citadines et les modes d'expression d'une culture populaire effervescente. Sur les terrains du travail, de la consommation, des régulations sociales, du voisinage, des circulations urbaines ou des mobilisations politiques, la relation entre Paris et ses peuples, toujours bouillante, fournit le cadre de ruptures et de continuités historiques qui traversent l'Ancien Régime et la Révolution.
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