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View article: Book Review: How Paris Became Paris: The Invention of the Modern City
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Financier. Nouveau riche. Millionaire. Femme fatale. Fashion. Sidewalk. If any of these terms resonate with you, Joan DeJean posits that you have one place and era to thank: seventeenth century Paris. In DeJean’s telling, the genesis of th…