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How Paris Became Paris: The Invention of the Modern City by Joan DeJean

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Monday, May 19 through Friday, May 30, 2014. Read by Norman Gilliland.

At the beginning of the 17th century Paris was a village. Over the next century it turned itself into the mythic city we know today.

(Bloomsbury ISBN: 1608195910)

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