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The Paris Zone

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The Paris Zone book

A Cultural History, 1840-1944

The Paris Zone

DOI link for The Paris Zone

The Paris Zone book

A Cultural History, 1840-1944
ByJames Cannon
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2015
eBook Published 24 February 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315554808
Pages 312 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315554808
SubjectsArts, Humanities
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Cannon, J. (2015). The Paris Zone. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315554808

Since the mid-1970s, the colloquial term zone has often been associated with the troubled post-war housing estates on the outskirts of large French cities. However, it once referred to a more circumscribed space: the zone non aedificandi (non-building zone) which encircled Paris from the 1840s to the 1940s. This unusual territory, although marginal in a social and geographical sense, came to occupy a central place in Parisian culture. Previous studies have focused on its urban and social history, or on particular ways in which it was represented during particular periods. By bringing together and analysing a wider range of sources from the duration of the zone’s existence, this study offers a rich and nuanced account of how the area was perceived and used by successive generations of Parisian novelists (including Zola and Flaubert), poets, songwriters, artists, photographers, film-makers, politicians and town-planners. More generally, it aims to raise awareness of a neglected aspect of Parisian cultural history while pointing to links between current and past perceptions of the city’s periphery.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |14 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|16 pages

The Urban Periphery and the Zone before 1870

chapter 2|45 pages

The Emergence of the Zone as a Metaphor, 1870–1889

chapter 3|96 pages

From Metaphor to Myth, 1890–1918

chapter 4|62 pages

The Zone between the Wars, 1919–1939

chapter 5|16 pages

The Death Knell of the Zone, 1940–1944

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