Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction PART I THE SOCIAL ORDER OF CUSTOMARY PARIS 1. The Patterns of Urban Life 2. The Poor You Have with You Always 3. Not Servants but Workers 4. Each According to His Station PART II CITY GOVERNMENT AND POPULAR DISCONTENT 5. Bread, Police, and Protest 6. Wolves in Sheep's Clothing: Religion and Politics PART III MAKING A NEW ROME 7. Affaires du Temps 8. Secularization 9. Urbanism or Despotism? 10. The Integration of the City 11. Plebeian Culture, Metropolitan Culture 12. The City and the Revolution Epilogue The New Paris Notes Selected Reading Index

About the Author

David Garrioch is Associate Professor of History at Monash University, Australia, and author of The Formation of the Parisian Bourgeoisie, 1690-1830 (1996) and Neighborhood and Community in Paris, 1740-1790 (1986).

Reviews

"An unusually compelling work of scholarly synthesis: a history of a city of revolution in a revolutionary century. Garrioch claims that until 1750 Paris remained a city characterized by a powerful sense of heirarchy. From the mid-century on, however, and with gathering speed, economic, demographic, political, and social change swept the city. Having produced an extremely engaging account of the old corporate society, Garrioch turns to the forces that relentlessly undermined it."-Jack Talbott, Professor of History, University of California, Santa Barbara