The making of modern Paris, 1760-1860
D Garrioch and W Kirsop
8 points * 3 hours per week * First semester * Clayton
During the century between 1760 and 1860, Paris was transformed from a `walking city' of narrow, winding streets into an economically integrated metropolis with wide, tree-lined boulevards, advanced public health and sanitation, and the world's first public transport system. The subject studies the course and causes of this transformation, the impact of economic change and revolution, the effect of new medical theories and new ideals of beauty, and the role of the state. It concludes with an evaluation of theories of urban development in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Assessment
Analysis of an article (1000 words): 20% * Essay (3000 words): 50% * Class test (1.5 hours): 30%
Prescribed texts
Recueil de textes Monash U
Chevalier L Classes laborieuses et classes dangereuses à Paris pendant la première moitié du 19e siècle Hachette-Pluriel
Mercier L-S Le tableau de Paris La Découverte
Restif de la Bretonne N Les nuits de Paris Gallimard, Folio
Recommended texts
Green N The spectacle of nature: Landscape and bourgeouis culture in nineteenth-century France Manchester UP
Ménétra J-L Journal de ma vie Montalba
Pinkney D H Napoleon III and the rebuilding of Paris Princeton
Roche D Le peuple de Paris Aubier