THE OTHER PARIS

A trip through Paris as it will never be again-dark and dank and poor and slapdash and truly bohemianParis, the City of Light, the c ity of fine dining and seductive couture and intellectual hauteur, was until fairly recently always accompanied by its shadow: the c ity of the poor, the outcast, the criminal, the eccentric, the willfully nonconforming. In The Other Paris, Luc Sante gives us a pan oramic view of that second metropolis, which has nearly vanished but whose traces are in the bricks and stones of the contemporary c ity, in ...[Read more]