{"product_id":"book-bk5c","title":"The Other Paris","description":"Paris, the City of Light. The city of the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre, of soft cheese and fresh baguettes. Or so tourist brochures would have you believe. In \u003ci\u003eThe Other Paris\u003c\/i\u003e: The People's City, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Luc Sante reveals the city's hidden past, its seamy underside—one populated by working and criminal classes that, though virtually extinct today, have shaped Paris over the past two centuries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on testimony from a great range of witnesses—from Balzac and Hugo to assorted boulevardiers, rabble-rousers, and tramps—Sante, whose thorough research is matched only by the vividness of his narration, takes the reader on a whirlwind tour. Richly illustrated with more than three hundred images, \u003ci\u003eThe Other Paris\u003c\/i\u003e scuttles through the knotted streets of pre-Haussmann Paris; through the improvised accommodations of the original bohemians; through the massive garbage dump at Montfaucon, active until 1849, in which, \"at any given time the carcasses of 12,000 horses … were left to rot.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA wildly lively survey of labor conditions, prostitution, drinking, crime, and popular entertainment, of the reporters, réaliste singers, pamphleteers, and poets who chronicled their evolution, \u003ci\u003eThe Other Paris\u003c\/i\u003e is a book meant to upend the story of the French capital, to reclaim the city from the bon vivants and the speculators, and to hold a light to the works and days of the forgotten poor.","brand":"Highbridge Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49385228435760,"sku":"BDbk5c","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49385228468528,"sku":"ZEbk5c","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49385228501296,"sku":"ZMbk5c","price":45.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD [40]","offer_id":49385228534064,"sku":"40bk5c","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/bk5c-Square-cover.jpg?v=1779011499","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-bk5c","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}