Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. ⇠ Introduction ⇢ The Measure of Paris ix
5. Part One ⇢ Paris Perdu
6. ⇠ 1 Conspiracy Theories ⇢ “Ineluctible intolerable oblivion” 3
7. ⇠ 2 The Baron of Alphaville ⇢ 9
8. ⇠ 3 From the Tour Eiffel to the Tour Montparnasse ⇢ 19
9. Part Two ⇢ “I is an other” Parisian Autobiography 31
10. Part Three ⇢ What Pleasure in a Name! The Long Poem of Walking
11. ⇠ 4 Missing the Direct Way ⇢ 55
12. ⇠ 5 The Street Map of Paris ⇢ 61
13. ⇠ 6 The Flâneur ⇢ 93
14. ⇠ 7 Devious Routes ⇢ Sheila Watson Walking in Paris 107
15. ⇠ 8 Mavis Gallant on the Streets of May 68 ⇢ 117
16. ⇠ 9 “Loving walking here” ⇢ Gail Scott’s Paris 127
17. ⇠ 10 John Glassco and the Ethics of Pleasure ⇢ 135
18. Part Four ⇢ Parisian Sites
19. ⇠ 11 A Walk with Gertrude Stein ⇢ 151
20. ⇠ 12 Wrestling with the Angel ⇢ Djuna Barnes and Saint-Sulpice 169
21. ⇠ 13 19 rue Rousselet ⇢ 185
22. Part Five ⇢ Canadian Visions
23. ⇠ 14 The Frog’s Kiss ⇢ Lola Lemire Tostevin and the Mirage of Paris 201
24. ⇠ 15 A Travel of Indeterminate Stops ⇢ Gerry Shikatani’s Aqueduct 223
25. Part Six ⇢ Personal Postscripts
26. ⇠ 16 The First Time I saw Paris (1970) ⇢ 247
27. ⇠ 17 Catastrophe and Shame ⇢ Paris Journal (2002) 251
28. Notes 275
29. Works Cited 307
30. Image Credits 315
31. Index 317