The following is a list of works about Paris, France:
List of books, arranged by author
In English DeJean, Joan. How Paris Became Paris: The Invention of the Modern City (2014) Edwards, Henry Sutherland. Old and new Paris: its history, its people, and its places (2 vol 1894) online Fierro, Alfred. Historical Dictionary of Paris (1998) 392pp, an abridged translation of his Histoire et dictionnaire de Paris (1996), 1580pp Horne, Alistair. Seven Ages of Paris (2002), emphasis on ruling elites excerpt and text search Jones, Colin. Paris: Biography of a City (2004), 592pp; comprehensive history by a leading British scholar excerpt and text search Lawrence, Rachel; Gondrand, Fabienne (2010). Paris (City Guide) (12th ed.). London: Insight Guides. . Sutcliffe, Anthony. Paris: An Architectural History (1996) excerpt and text search
In French
List of works, arranged chronologically
Published in the 17th–18th centuries
In French (see Nicolas de Blégny for information about this author)
(theatre almanac)
v.2
(12 volumes)
Published in the 19th century 1800s-1850s
1860s-1890s
In French (see for information about this author)
(15 volumes)
v.12, v.17, v.21
Published in the 20th century 1900s-1950s
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1960s-1990s
Flanner, Janet. Paris Was Yesterday, 1925-1939 (1988); Primary source; her "Letter from Paris," in New Yorker magazine François Loyer, Paris, Nineteenth Century: Architecture and Urbanism, trans. Charles Lynn Clark (New York, 1988)
Wiser, William. The Crazy Years: Paris in the Twenties (1990); focus on artists & celebrities, especially expatriates Annick Pardailhe-Galabrun, The Birth of Intimacy: Privacy and Domestic Life in Early Modern Paris, trans. Jocelyn Phelps (Cambridge, 1991). Christopher Prendergast, Writing the City: Paris and the Nineteenth Century (Oxford, 1992), Bernier, Olivier. Fireworks at Dusk: Paris in the Thirties (1993); social, artistic, and political life Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson. Paris as Revolution: Writing the Nineteenth-Century City (Berkeley, 1994) Christiansen, Rupert. Tales of the New Babylon: Paris, 1869-75 (Sinclair-Stevenson, 1994)
Historical Dictionary of Paris. Landham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1998. Sharon Marcus, Apartment Stories: City and Home in Nineteenth-Century Paris and London (Berkeley, 1999)
Published in the 21st century Wiser, William. The twilight years: Paris in the 1930s (Robson Books, 2000); Focus on artists & celebrities, especially expatriates Mansel, Philip. Paris Between Empires 1814-1852 (John Murray, 2001) Harvey, David. Paris, Capital of Modernity (Routledge, 2003)
online review Mitchell, Allan. Nazi Paris: The History of an Occupation, 1940-1944 (2010) Rearick, Charles. Paris Dreams, Paris Memories: The City and Its Mystique (Stanford University Press, 2011). 296 pp. online review
Winter, Jay and Jean-Louis Robert, eds. Capital Cities at War: Volume 2, A Cultural History: Paris, London, Berlin 1914-1919 (2 vol 2012)
Castigliano, Federico (2017). Flâneur. The Art of Wandering the Streets of Paris. Christiansen, Rupert. City of Light: The Reinvention of Paris (Head of Zeus, 2018) Ford, Caroline. "The Sound of Paris: An Environmental History of Noise in the City of Light" Environment and History (2025) v.31#1 pp. 1–21 online
Bibliographies
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