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Paris : Capital of the World
Published in Hardcover by Belknap Pr (2002)
Authors: Patrice Higonnet and Arthur Goldhammer
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How can you make Paris dull? Here's how...
I was tricked into buying this book. It is being marketed as a general history of Paris for the traveler or Francophile. Unfortunately, it reads much more like someone's masters thesis. As such, it brings with it all the usual problems of academic writing. Here is a sample sentence:

"In perfect anthithesis to this, phantasmagoria was an ideological mechanism of exclusion."

Sadly, there's lots more where that came from. This book was not written to entertain, inspire, or inform the reader; it was written to promote the author's erudition.

If you're looking for a general history of Paris, I'm sure there are many other options that are more readable.

Class, Ideology, and the Rights of Nobles during the French Revolution
Published in Hardcover by Oxford Univ Pr (1989)
Author: Patrice Higonnet
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Favorites of Fortune: Technology, Growth, and Economic Development Since the Industrial Revolution
Published in Hardcover by Harvard Univ Pr (1991)
Authors: Patrice Higonnet, David S. Landes, Rosovsky Henry, Henry Rosovsky, and Patrice Higgonet
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Goodness Beyond Virtue: Jacobins During the French Revolution
Published in Hardcover by Harvard Univ Pr (1998)
Author: Patrice Higonnet
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Pont-De-Montvert: Social Structure and Politics in a French Village 1700-1914
Published in Hardcover by Harvard Univ Pr (1971)
Author: Patrice L. Higonnet
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Sister Republics: The Origins of French and American Republicanism
Published in Hardcover by Harvard Univ Pr (1988)
Author: Patrice Higonnet
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