Paris

Capital of the World

Patrice Higonnet

Translated by Arthur Goldhammer

    1. A City of Myths

    2. Capital of the Modern Self

    3. Capital of Revolution

    4. Mysterious Capital of Crime

    5. Negative Myths of La Parisienne

    6. Capital of Science

    7. Reading the Parisian Myths

    8. The Urban Machine

    9. Capital of Alienation

    10. Paris in the World

    11. Three Literary Visions

    12. Capital of Pleasure

    13. The American Imagination

    14. From Myth to Phantasmagoria

    15. The Surrealists' Quest

    16. Capital of Art

    17. A Universal City

  • Cover: Paris
  • A photo of the author

Patrice Higonnet is Robert Walton Goelet Professor of French History, Harvard University.

Arthur Goldhammer received the French-American Translation Prize in 1990 for his translation of A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution.