Historic Paris

A neighborhood-by-neighborhood guide to Paris’s historical architecture and streets, presenting descriptive tours of palaces, churches, markets, bridges, boulevards, cemeteries, and lesser-known alleys. The author combines long residency observations with archival notes to describe exterior and interior features such as roofs, staircases, portals, and courtyards, and records alterations resulting from urban redevelopment and wartime loss. Chapters are organized geographically, each concentrating on clusters of monuments and local anecdotes. Numerous illustrations and indexes of streets and historic persons accompany the text to help readers locate sites and follow their historical associations.