The Paris Zone: A Cultural History, 1840-1944

by JamesCannon (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2015

  $139.91

  Since the mid-1970s, the term zone has often been associated with the post-war housing estates on the outskirts of large French cities. However, it once referred to a more circumscribed space: the zone non aedificandi (non-building zone) which encircled Paris (1840-1940). This unusual territory came to occupy a central place in Parisian culture.