A History of “An entire city, built with pomp, seems to have arisen

A Course for Spring Semester 2011
History 482(G). Special Topics in European History.
A History of
Ile de la Cité. The Fronde. Julius Caesar. Saint Denis. Gare de Montparnasse. Clovis. Saint Geneviève. Abélard. Héloise. Hugh Capet. Arc de
Triomphe. Abbé Suger. Notre Dame. Saint Denis. The Storming of the Bastille. Philippe Auguste. Saint Louis. Francis I. Henri IV. Cardinal
Richelieu. René Descartes. Pont Neuf. Cardinal Mazarin. Jean-Baptiste Colbert. Abstractionism. Ile St. Louis. The Reign of Terror. Jean
Racine. Molière. Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire. Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Pierre Beaumarchais. Pablo Picasso. Maximillian Robespierre.
Georges Danton. Napoleon Bonaparte. Gare de l’Est. Honoré de Balzac. Louis-Philippe. Napoleon III. Georges Haussmann. André Gide. The 1830
Revolution. Existentialism. Josephine de Beauharnais. First Republic. The Franks’ Invasion. Gustave Flaubert. The I848 Revolution.
Deconstructionism. Maurice Barrès. Second Republic. Panthéon. Joseph Joffre. English Occupation. The Paris Commune. Post-Modernism.
Georges Boulanger. Tour Eiffel. Marais. Louvre. Victor Hugo. Gare du Nord. Emile Zola. Claude Monet. Saint-Médard. Bon Marché. Auguste
Renoir. Hôtel des Invalides. Sarah Bernhardt. Sorbonne. Edith Piaf. Expressionism. Josephine Baker. Allan Kardec. Ernest Hemingway.
Gertrude Stein. Charles De Gaulle. Comédie Francaise. Third Republic. Montmartre. Paris Peace Conference. André Breton. Edgar Degas.
Saint-Germain. The Lindbergh Flight. Surrealism. Marie Curie. Félix Faure. Champ de Mars. Nazi Occupation. Dada. Cubism. Arènes de
Lutèce. St. Bartholemew’s Day Massacre. Student Protests. Concièrgerie. Impressionism. Fourth Republic. Bois de Boulogne. Albert Camus.
Ecole Militaire. Jean-Paul Sartre. Musée d’Orsay. Simone de Beauvoir. Hôtel de Ville. Gare St. Lazare. Georges Pompidou. Jardin de
Luxembourg. Michel Foucault. Jacques Derrida. Père La Chaise. Pierre Bourdieu. Jacques Chirac. Les Halles. Nicolas Sarkozy. Léon
Gambetta. Quartier Latin. Georges Clemenceau. Danny Cohn-Bendit. Fifth Republic. Art Buchwald. Saint-Honoré. Frederick Chopin.
Basilique du Sacré Coeur. Ferdinand Foch. Champs Elysées. Honoré Daumier. Lyon. Alfred Dreyfus. Hotel des Invalides. La Défense. Opéra.
Instructor:
Dr. Edward Woell
Required Texts:
Edmond and Jules de Goncourt,
Time and Place:
Monday and Wednesday,
2:00-3:15 p.m.
Morgan 304
Pages from the Goncourt Journals
Alistair Horne,
Seven Ages of Paris
Louis-Sebastien Mercier,
Prerequisites:
History 125 or History 126;
Or Instructor’s Permission.
Panorama of Paris
For More Information, Email:
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“An entire city, built with pomp, seems to have arisen
miraculously from an old ditch.”
-Pierre Corneille, Le Menteur, 1643