MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS

Arts Undergraduate Handbook 1996

Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996

FRN3890

The making of modern Paris, 1760-1860

Not offered in 1996

D Garrioch and W Kirsop

Synopsis 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 U P
• 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