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BOOKS & LINKS
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General Links for Contemporary Paris

Serveur Official de la Ville de Paris  Official city guide to Paris.  Information of living in Paris, city government, investing in Paris, studying in Paris, and sports.

Office de Tourisme et des Congres Paris  An offering of links to popular places, museums, hotels, city towns, maps, airports, and even Paris for children.

LiveScopeWEBCAM  Live camera website of Paris provided by Canon.  Images seen are real time transmitted through a CANON VC-C3 camera installed at the 14th floor of head quarter building in Courbevoie, just in front of the Seine river at La Défense.

Museum of Music in Paris  Official website for the Parisian museum fashioned for musical genres.

Metropolitan Museum of Art  Website for an exhibition of Paris prints from the 1890s.



Links Related to Seminar

The Ackland Art Museum

Paris: Representing the City of Light (Course Description)



Rare Books (Available in UNC's Wilson Library)

Adam. Annales de la Republique Francaise. Hoyt 1925 Folio 2

Carey, Arthur. Life in Paris, with illustrations by George Cruikshank. DC715 C3 C2

Hemingway, Ernest. "A Moveable Feast." From Life Magazine. Folio PS3515 E37 P37

La Mare, Nicholas. Traite de la Police.  Folio 2: HV 8206 P3 L3 1713

Larouge, G. Curiosities de Paris et Versailles, 1771. DC729 L4 1771

Sue. Les Mysteres de Paris. PQ 2446 M7 1843




Books on Paris

Afshar, Mahasti, ed. Picture Paris: Landmarks for a New Generation. France: J. Paul Getty Trust, 1998.

Herbert, Robert. Impressionism: Art, Leisure, and Parisian Society. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988.

Popkin, Jeremy, ed. Panorama of Paris. Selections from Le Tableau de Paris by Louis-Sebastien Mercier. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999.

Rice, Shelley. Parisian Views. London, England: The MIT Press, 1997.

Stein, Gertrude. Paris France. New York: Livernight Publishing Corporation, 1996.

Verne, Jules. Paris in the Twentieth Century. United States: Ballantine Books, 1996.



Coursepack Readings

Agulhon, Maurice. "Paris: A Traversal from East to West." Realms of Memory: The Construction of  the French Past. Vol. 3. Ed. Pierre Nora and L. Kritzman. Columbia University Press, 1997: 43-74.

Barthes, Roland. "The Eiffel Tower." A Barthes Reader. Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1983: 236-250.

Etlin, Richard. "Paris: The Image of the City." Symbolic Space. French Enlightenment Architecture. University of Chicago Press, 1994; 1-29.

Loyrette, Henri. "The Eiffel Tower." Realms of Memory: The Construction of the French Past. Vol. 3. Ed Pierre Nora and L. Kritzman. Columbia University Press, 1997: 17-42.