Paris romantique
Eugène Sue described the lowlands, Victor Hugo barricades, and Musset women and gardens. Balzac made it a centerpiece of his work between the splendors and ambitions collide, illusions that fade, money raising and corrupting. It was the romantic Paris, Paris garrets, suburbs and toll barriers. A capital that had hardly changed since the Old Regime and the work of Baron Haussmann disfigured forever. Sylvain Ledda revives this lost city, revealing the faces of Paris under the Restoration and the July Monarchy, rituals of social life events that made the date. A study in the form of a literary and historical walk that explores the iconic scene of romantic Paris: Boulevard, gardens, but also places of urban legends, such as the house of the executioner, object of fascination and repulsion. The book also sets out to meet those who rocked the capital, contemporary Lamartine and Dumas, where one crosses the emblematic figures of Paris of 1830, poets, dandies, unknown in search of fame, criminals whose exploits were chronicled in newspaper columns. Each page invites the reader to rediscover Paris at a critical period in its history.