Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Illustrations xi
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. Paris—Praised, Modernized, Remembered, Staged, and Loved: Nineteenth-Century Foundations 6
7. 2. The Memory of a Certain Belle Époque (1914–circa 1960): Or How the Turn-of-the-Century Lived on Beyond Its Time 44
8. 3. Postwar Modernizing and the Resistance of Memory (1945–circa 1980) 82
9. 4. New Varieties of a “Nouveau Paris” (1974– . . . ) 119
10. 5. Paris in Comparison 158
11. 6. Contemporary Paris—Images, Spirit, Soul, and Sites 186
12. Conclusion: To Know Paris 222
13. Appendix 1. Unusual and Unexpected Paris—A Sampler 229
14. Appendix 2. Landmark Paris Imagery 230
15. Appendix 3. Modern Paris Timeline 232
16. Notes 235
17. Selected Bibliography 269
18. Index 273