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Praise for The Invention of Paris -- : This is a wondrous book, either to be read at home with a decent map, or carried about sur place through areas no tourists bother with. -- Adam Thorpe * Guardian * Hazan is all business. He trudges through Paris street by street, quoting what Balzac, Hugo, Baudelaire or Kafka said about a particular spot, pointing out where barricades were once erected and thieves gathered for drinks. -- Donald Morrison * Financial Times * Amid the intellectual murkiness of the European scene, a few bright flames are burning: as witness the work of Eric Hazan. * New Left Review * Few will be able to resist. Hazan's brick-by-brick account of the city's history of strife and political posturing is riveting. * Publishers Weekly * Hazan wants to rescue individual moments from general forgetting and key sites from the bland homogenization of international city development; he is also a passionate left-wing historian seeking to rescue the truth of Paris's revolutionary past. -- Julian Barnes * London Review of Books * One of the greatest books about the city anyone has written in decades, towering over a crowded field, passionate and lyrical and sweeping and immediate. * New York Review of Books * This book is both a political and aesthetic delight, uncovering the real mysteries of Paris. -- Andrew Hussey, author of <i>Paris: The Secret History</i> With its astonishing breadth of reference and incredible detail, this is a must for all lovers of Paris. -- Kevin Rushby, author of <i>Paradise: A History of the Idea that Rules the World</i>

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Eric Hazan is the founder of the publisher La Fabrique and the author of several books, including the highly acclaimed The Invention of Paris. He has lived in Paris, France, all his life.

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