Bibliografie : p. 349-377. - Met reg. Description of the evolution between 1750 and 1850 from talking audience to listening audience at concerts. Each section opens with a chapter recreating the physical and psychological atmosphere of the hall from the spectator's point of view.
"While Paris climbed toward the height of its urban and industrial growth, two cholera outbreaks ravaged the capital, one in 1832, the other in 1849. Infecting one in approximately nineteen inhabitants, the first epidemic claimed over eighteen thousand lives; in the second, one …
In this account of Paris's public spaces in the years following Nazi occupation, the author argues that contrary to widely held belief, the streets overflowed with life. Festivals, street dances, funfairs, violent protests and political marches signalled the realities of postwar…
Karen Newman demonstrates that speculation and capital, the commodity, the crowd, traffic, and the street, often thought to be historically specific to nineteenth-century urban culture, were in fact already at work in early modern London and Paris. Newman challenges the notion o…
Werk uit de jaren rond 1900 uit de ateliers van de Franse kunsthandelaar en -fabrikant Siegfried Bing (1838-1905).
In 1939, fashion became an economic and symbolic sphere of great importance in France. Invasive textile legislation, rationing and threats from German and American couturiers were pushing the design and trade of Parisian style to its limits. It is widely accepted that French fas…