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Free Download Paris Is Not Dead: Surviving Hypergentrification in the City of Light (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CM4HZ1TN | 2023 | 8 hours and 10 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 236 MB
Author: Cole Stangler
Narrator: Graham Halstead
The Paris of popular imagination is lined with cobblestone streets and stylish cafes, a beacon for fashionistas and well-heeled tourists. But French-American journalist Cole Stangler, celebrated for his reporting on Paris and French politics, argues that the beating heart of the City of Light lies elsewhere-in its striving, working-class districts whose residents are being priced out of their hometown today. Paris Is Not Dead explores the past, present, and future of the City of Light through the lens of class conflict, highlighting the outsized role of immigrants in shaping the city’s progressive, cosmopolitan, and open-minded character-at a time when politics nationwide can feel like they’re shifting in the opposite direction. This is the Paris many tourists too often miss: immigrant-heavy districts such as the 18th arrondissement, where crowded street markets still define everyday life. Stangler brings this view of the city to life, combining gripping, street-level reportage, stories of today’s working-class Parisians, recent history, and a sweeping analysis of the larger forces shaping the city. Paris Is Not Dead offers a bottom-up portrait of one of the world’s most vital urban centers-and a call to action to Francophiles and all who care about the future of cities everywhere.

Free Download J. Michelle Coghlan, "Sensational Internationalism: The Paris Commune and the Remapping of American Memory in the Long Nineteenth Century "
English | ISBN: 1474431585 | 2018 | 232 pages | PDF | 12 MB
Remaps the borders of transatlantic feeling and resituates the role of international memory in U.S. culture in the long nineteenth century and beyond

Free Download Isabel Divanna, "Reconstructing the Middle Ages: Gaston Paris and the Development of Nineteenth-century Medievalism"
English | ISBN: 1443800643 | 2008 | 210 pages | PDF | 1023 KB
Reconstructing the Middle Ages looks at nineteenth-century medievalism in France using as a case study Gaston Paris, philologist, literary critic and professor of medieval studies. Gaston Paris’s method, traditionally seen as a combination of romanticism and positivism, exemplifies several elements of nineteenth-century medievalism in the Parisian academia in late nineteenth-century France. The text investigates Gaston Paris’s theories about three medieval literary genres (epic, fabliaux, and Arthurian tales) to understand how Paris’s view of medieval literature and history cross-related with nationalism at a time when France was particularly vulnerable, and at which French academics were especially eager to make a long-lasting contribution. Examining the work of Gaston Paris and his interaction with other scholars in the Parisian milieu, Reconstructing the Middle Ages offers a look at academic medievalism and the history philology, linguistics and literary and textual criticism in late nineteenth-century France. In particular, the book shows that when it comes to the self-image of France, medievalism was a topic that reached far beyond the walls of academia as it was related to national pride, memory and identity.

Free Download Christopher Leffler, "Plastic Pasts: Sited Memory in Paris, Algiers and Marseille"
English | ISBN: 9819956153 | 2023 | 309 pages | EPUB, PDF | 530 KB + 7 MB
This book uses plasticity as a metaphor for understanding how the past endures and evolves within the landscape, and the ways in which remembering shapes the sites we occupy and use. The plastic site is characterised both by its resilience, its form never entirely altered from an earlier mould, and by its malleability, which ensures that whatever persists is inevitably transformed. Embodied in its present configuration are the many moments that have produced it over time, and these are continually supplemented and modified.

Free Download Aïssatou Mbodj-Pouye, "An Address in Paris: Emplacement, Bureaucracy, and Belonging in Hostels for West African Migrants "
English | ISBN: 0231211430 | 2023 | 400 pages | PDF | 12 MB
After West African migrants arrived in France in the 1960s, the authorities opened residences for them known as "foyers." Initially intended to contain the West African population, these hostels for single men fostered the emergence of Black communities in the heart of Paris and other cities. More recently, however, a nationwide renovation program sought to replace the collective living arrangements of foyers with more individualized spaces by constructing new buildings or drastically reshaping existing ones―and casting the West African presence as a threat to French identity.

Free Download A Monograph of Paris (Melanthiaceae): Morphology, Biology, Systematics and Taxonomy by Yunheng Ji
English | EPUB | 2021 | 211 Pages | ISBN : 9811579024 | 99.4 MB
This book provides essential information on the morphology, biology, phytochemistry, pharmaceutical prospects, evolution, phylogeny, biogeography, and taxonomy of Paris (Melanthiaceae), a morphologically distinctive plant genus with great economic importance. Since the establishment of this genus, 70 species and 24 subspecific taxa have been described, resulting in considerable confusion in species delimitation.

Free Download Sally Hammond, "Pardon My French: From Paris to the Pyrenees and Back"
English | 2007 | pages: 256 | ISBN: 1741103967 | EPUB | 4,3 mb
Pardon My French is Sally’s travel journal as she samples the local food, stays in local places (both on and off the beaten track), struggles with the language, discovers history and mysteries, and, of course, collects recipes en route.

Free Download Karyn L. Freedman, "One Hour in Paris: A True Story of Rape and Recovery"
English | 2014 | pages: 208 | ISBN: 1554811953, 022607370X | EPUB | 1,8 mb
Winner of the 2015 British Columbia National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction

Free Download Paula Young Lee, "Deer Hunting in Paris: A Memoir of God, Guns, and Game Meat (Travelers’ Tales Guides)"
English | 2013 | pages: 360 | ISBN: 1609520807 | EPUB | 12,5 mb
What happens when a Korean-American preacher’s kid refuses to get married, travels the world, and quits being vegetarian? She meets her polar opposite on an online dating site while sitting at a café in Paris, France and ends up in Paris, Maine, learning how to hunt. A memoir and a cookbook with recipes that skewer human foibles and celebrates DIY food culture, Deer Hunting in Paris is an unexpectedly funny exploration of a vanishing way of life in a complex cosmopolitan world. Sneezing madly from hay fever, Lee recovers her roots in rural Maine by running after a headless chicken, learning how to sight in a rifle, shooting skeet, and butchering animals. Along the way, she figures out how to keep her boyfriend’s conservative Republican family from "mistaking" her for a deer and shooting her at the clothesline.

Free Download The Siege that Changed the World: Paris, 1870-1871 by N S Nash
English | September 9, 2021 | ISBN: 1526790297 | 224 pages | EPUB | 27 Mb
A fascinating account of the dramatic events leading up to the Siege and the four month siege itself.