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Exploring Paris arm in arm with Balzac, nineteenth-century France's most famous novelist and observer

A kaleidoscopic look at Paris's ever-changing forms and people

»Wenn die Aufständischen die Macht stürzen und den Staatsapparat und die Verwaltung zerstören, bricht das stets als apokalyptische Drohung beschworene Chaos nicht aus. Alle Berichte stimmen darin überein: In diesen außergewöhnlichen Tagen entsteht eine kollektive Freude, das Gefühl einer wiedergefundenen Schwesterlichkeit und die Erfindung neuer Lebensformen.« – Éric Hazan Auf der Suche nach Erkenntnissen, die dazu beitragen können, den herrschenden Pessimismus zu überwinden und wieder aktiv zu werden, durchstreift Éric Hazan 220 Jahre Revolutionsgeschichte: von der Stürmung der Bastille bis zum Sturz von Ben Ali und Mubarak. Dabei gelangt er zu einigen grundlegenden Erkenntnissen: Die wichtigsten Aufstände entstanden nicht aufgrund politischer Ideen, sondern resultierten aus der Wut der Bevölkerung, ein ungünstiges Kräfteverhältnis kann sich von einem Tag auf den anderen wenden, die berühmtesten Episoden sind häufig nur legendäre Konstruktionen und nie tritt nach einem Sieg das viel beschworene Chaos ein. In seinem klugen Essay betrachtet Hazan die Aufstandsgeschichte nicht aus der Perspektive der ewigen Besiegten oder als ein Repertoire von Katastrophen, sondern als lebendige Quelle an Lehren und Beispielen für die Gegenwart. Denn er ist davon überzeugt, dass die Bildung revolutionärer Kräfte immer über die Wiederaneignung unserer Vergangenheit geschieht.

Eric Hazan's elegant, characteristically learned account of his journey through contemporary Paris, written in a tone both intimate and authoritative, is at once a companionably unhurried evocation of the city's rich, radical past and-at a time when capital is dramatically reorganizing its topography-a bracingly urgent intervention in debates about the city's future. As André Breton might have observed, there really are no lost steps here. -Matthew Beaumont, author of Nightwalking Praise for The Invention of Paris: This is a wondrous book, either to be read at home with a decent map, or carried about sur place through areas no tourists bother with. -Adam Thorpe, Guardian Hazan is all business. He trudges through Paris street by street, quoting what Balzac, Hugo, Baudelaire or Kafka said about a particular spot, pointing out where barricades were once erected and thieves gathered for drinks. -Donald Morrison, Financial Times Hazan's brick-by-brick account of the city's history of strife and political posturing is riveting. -Publishers Weekly Hazan wants to rescue individual moments from general forgetting and key sites from the bland homogenization of international city development; he is also a passionate left-wing historian seeking to rescue the truth of Paris's revolutionary past. -Julian Barnes, London Review of Books

Der Autor, Arzt und Verleger, erinnert sich seiner Spaziergänge durch Paris, von Ivry bis Saint-Denis, von einer Buchhandlung in die andere. Und er erzählt von den politischen Debatten, der Literatur und den Kinofilmen und Geschichten, die sich an den jeweiligen Orten ereigneten.

Discover French history as you’ve never read it before in this bold account of the French Revolution from the perspective of the lower classes. This blow-by-blow narrative busts pervasive myths and reveals how the French Revolution shaped the Western world. The assault on the Bastille, the Reign of Terror, Danton mocking his executioner, Robespierre dispensing a fearful justice, and the archetypal gadfly Marat—the events and figures of the French Revolution have exercised a hold on the historical imagination for more than 200 years. It has been a template for heroic insurrection and, to more conservative minds, a cautionary tale. In the hands of Eric Hazan, author of The Invention of Paris, the revolution becomes a rational and pure struggle for emancipation. In this new history, the first significant account of the French Revolution in over twenty years, Hazan maintains that it fundamentally changed the Western world—for the better. Looking at history from the bottom up, providing an account of working people and peasants, Hazan asks, how did they see their opportunities? What were they fighting for? What was the Terror and could it be justified? And how was the revolution stopped in its tracks? Hazen offers a vivid retelling of events, bringing them to life with a multitude of voices. Only through the people can we fully understand the legacy of French Revolution.

We have witnessed a beginning, the birth of a new age of revolt and upheaval. In North Africa and the Middle East it took the people a matter of days to topple what were supposedly entrenched regimes. Now, to the west, multiple crises are etching away at a 'democratic consensus' that has, since the 1970s, plagued and suppressed any sparks of revolutionary potential. It is time to prepare for the coming insurrection. In this bold and beautifully written book, Eric Hazan and Kamo provide a short account of what is to be done in the aftermath of a regime's demise: how to prevent any power from restoring itself and how to reorganize society without a central authority and according to the people's needs. They argue that neither a leadership reshuffle, in the guise of constitutional progress, nor a transition period between a capitalist social order and a communist horizon will do. First Measures of the Coming Insurrection is more than the voice of a new generation of revolutionaries; it is the manual for the coming global revolution.

How the French invented the barricade, and its symbolic impact on popular protests throughout history In the history of European revolutions, the barricade stands as a glorious emblem. Its symbolic importance arises principally from the barricades of Eric Hazan’s native Paris, where they were instrumental in the revolts of the nineteenth century, helping to shape the political life of a continent. The barricade was always a makeshift construction (the word derives from barrique or barrel), and in working-class districts these ersatz fortifications could spread like wildfire. They doubled as a stage, from which insurgents could harangue soldiers and subvert their allegiance. Their symbolic power persisted into May 1968 and, more recently, the Occupy movements. Hazan traces the many stages in the barricade’s evolution, from the Wars of Religion through to the Paris Commune, drawing on the work of thinkers throughout the periods examined to illustrate and bring to life the violent practicalities of revolutionary uprising.

In this book, the Parisian writer Eric Hazan takes you for a stroll through Paris as it was for his famous forebears Balzac, Stendhal, Hugo, and Nerval. A Paris that sparkles in the fresh, airy watercolours and drawings collected by the architect Destailleur, now housed in the Prints and Photographs Department of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Despite the city's enduring medieval look, the Paris illustrated here is stirred by a revolutionary spirit, a city that crowned emperors and twice restored the monarchy.This is the capital as it was before Haussmann's major transformations: from the Marais and the Latin Quarter to the Faubourg Saint-Germain and the Palais Royal, from the Pont des Arts and the Pont Neuf to the theatres on the Boulevards and the Louvre. In these views, the inhabitants ride about on horses or fish in the Seine, flounder in muddy streets, or sit outside in one of the newfangled sidewalk cafés to watch the world go by.