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UC Center Program
Fall 2004
PCC 111. Histories of Paris
| Tuesday 11:00-13:00 |
Prof. Mark Meigs |
| Thursday 11:00 - 13:00 |
Office Hours TBA |
Using the buildings and space of Paris as a laboratory, this course surveys key events in the histories of Paris and France. The course will focus on the social and cultural history of the city in its material dimensions; the relation of streets and buildings to the unfolding events of French history, and the meanings of local topography within the enduring mythologies of the city. A central goal of the course is to teach students to read and write critically about the history of Paris and the cityscape around them. Course meets twice a week with site visits and once a week in tutorial. [History, Urban Studies, Sociology, Architecture, French] 7.0 credits
COURSE BOOKS
- Robert Cole, A Traveler's History of Paris, 2nd ed. (Interlink Publishing Group, 1997).
- Michael B. Miller, The Bon Marché: Bourgeois Culture and the Department Store
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981).
- Honoré de Balzac, Old Goriot.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS
Students are expected to do each week's readings before the first week's session, and to attend the mandatory site visits. Class participation (including several short written exercises throughout the term and a class presentation) will be worth 25% of the grade. There will also be a research paper (10 pages, 30%), a midterm (20%), a final (25%)
COURSE SCHEDULE
There is also a separate Course Resources Page with additional electronic materials for this course.
 Web Resource Page
Week 1. September 13-17.
THE PAST IN THE PRESENT
Tuesday: Reading the City: The Louvre from Philippe Auguste to I.M. Pei
Thursday: Recognizing the Styles and Symbols of Paris.
(Class excursion to the Louvre)
- An eyewitness account of the Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day, August 24, 1572.
- Official site of the Louvre (in French)
- Aerial views of the Louvre
- Louvre extensions (1852-57)
- Cole, 1-62, 259-261: Introduction, ch. 1 ("Lutetia and Paris"), ch. 2 ("The Medieval City"), Section on the Louvre.
- In Course Reader (CR hereafter): Jean-Pierre. Babelon, "The Louvre: Royal Residence and the Temple to the Arts," in Pierre Nora's Realms of Memory: volume III, pp. 253-289.
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Week 2. September 20-24.
URBAN ABSOLUTISM AND ENLIGHTENMENT
Tuesday: Royal Squares and Gardens
Thursday: Gender and Representation
(class excursion to the Place des Vosges and Musee Carnavalet)
- Cole, ch. 4 ("Glitter and Gloom"), pp. 91-119.
- Rochelle Ziskin, "Louis XIV's Parisian place royale Reconceived" in The Place Vendome: Architecture and Social Mobility in Eighteenth Century Paris, pp. 5-33.[CR]
- Images of the Place Vendome
- Place Vendome - Photos
- Images of the Place des Vosges
- Judith Coffin, "Gender and the Guild Order: The Garment Trades in Eighteenth-Century Paris," The Journal of Economic History, vol. 54, No. 4. (Dec., 1994), pp. 768-793.[CR]
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Week 3. September 27 - October 1.
ANTI-URBAN ABSOLUTISM
Tuesday: Versailles and Les Invalides
Thursday: Expressing and Monitoring Public Opinion
(class excusion to Les Invalides and rue de Varennes)
- The Duc of Saint-Simon observes the court at Versailles
- Two portraits of Louis XIV
- Images of Gardens and Grounds
- Edouard Pommier, "Versailles: The Image of the Sovereign,"in Pierre Nora's Realms of Memory: volume III, Realms of Memory, vol. 3, pp. 293-324.[CR]
- Robert Darnton, "An Early Information Society" (on public opinion, cafe life, and communications networks in eighteenth-century Paris); recommended is the segment on "Public Opinion and Communications Networks in Eighteenth Century Paris," under that heading examine: "Policing a Poem" and "A communication Network".
- Jeffrey S. Ravel, "Seating the Public: Spheres and Loathing in the Paris Theaters, 1777-1788," French Historical Studies, vol. 18, No. 1. (Spring, 1993), pp. 173-210.[CR]
- Martin Nadaud, "Memoirs of Léonard, a Former Mason's Assistant," in Mark Traugott, ed. The French Worker: Autobiographies from the Industrial Era (Berkeley, 1993), pp. 183-249.[CR]
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Week 4. (October 4-8)
REVOLUTIONARY PARIS
Tuesday: Interpretations of the French Revolution of 1789
Thursday: Paris and the Revolution of 1789
- Cole, ch. 5 ("Revolution and Empire"), pp.120-149.
- David Garrioch, The Making of Revolutionary Paris (Berkeley, 2002), chs. 11-12, pp. 260-302.[CR]
- Historical Documents on the French Revolution and Napoleon
- Exploring the French Revolution: Documents, Images, Texts, Songs, Chronologie
- Mona Ozouf, "The Festival and Space", Festival and the French Revolution, pp.126-157.[CR]
- Susan P. Conner, "Public Virtue and Public Women: Prostitution in Revolutionary Paris, 1793-1794," Eighteenth-Century Studies, vol. 28, No. 2. (Winter, 1994-1995), pp. 221-240.[CR]
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Week 5. October 11-15.
REVOLUTION AND MEMORY
Tuesday: The Revolutionary Century
Thursday: Society and a Revolutionary Century
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Week 6. October 18-22.
READING AND WRITING THE POST-REVOLUTIONARY CITY
Tuesday: Crime and Representation
Thursday: The Factory and the City
- Cole, ch. 6 ("The Romantic City"), pp. 150-177.
- Louis Chevalier, "The Pictoresque Literature", Laboring Classes and Dangerous Classes in Paris During the First Half of the Nineteenth-Century, pp. 59-79.[CR]
- W. Scott Haine, "Café Friendship': Friendship and Fraternity in Parisian Working Class Cafés, 1850-1914," Journal of Contemporary History, vol. 27 No.4 (October 1992): 607-626.[CR]
- Norbert Truquin, "Memoirs and Adventures of a Proletarian in Times of Revolution," in Mark Traugott, ed. The French Worker: Autobiographies from the Early Industrial Era (Berkeley, 1993), pp. 250-308.[CR]
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Week 7. October 25-29.
MIDTERM
POST-REVOLUTIONARY SOCIETY
Tuesday: Midterm
Thursday: The Family and Its Discontents.
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MIDTERM BREAK (October 30-November 7)
Week 8. November 8-10
Paris and Consumers
Tuesday: The Consumer and the City
Thursday: The Big Stores and Boulevards: Haussmannisation
(class excursion: arcades in the Bourse neighborhood)
- Walter Benjamin, "Paris The Capital of the Nineteenth Century", The Arcades Project, pp. 3-26.[CR]
- Vanessa R. Schwartz, "The Musée Grévin: Museum and Newspaper in One", Spectacular Realities: Early Mass Culture in Fin-de-siècle Paris (Berkeley, 1998).[CR]
- Michael Miller, The Bon Marche, pp. 1-79
- David P. Jordan, "Haussmann and Haussmannisation: The Legacy for Paris", French Historical Studies, vol. 27, N.1 (Winter 2004), pp. 87-113.[CR]
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Week 9. November 15-19.
THE COMMUNE AND ITS MEMORIES
Tuesday: The Paris Commune
Thursday: and a Revolutionary Century
(Recommended student visits: République, Arc de Triomphe, Square Louis XVI, Bastille, le Panthéon, Cimitière Père LaChaise Mur des Martyrs.)
- John Leighton, "One Day Under the Paris Commune" (1871).
- 1200 digitized photographs, images, and caricatures from Northwestern University
- Eugene Schulkind, "Socialist Women during the 1871 Paris Commune," Past and Present, No. 106. (Feb., 1985), pp. 124-163.[CR]
- Cole, ch. 7 ("The Republican City, 1871-1939"), pp.178-207.
- M. Agulhon, "Paris: A traversal from East to West," in Pierre Nora's Realms of Memory: volume III, pp 523-552.[CR]
- CR M. Ozouf, "The Panthéon: The Ecole Normale of the Dead," in Pierre Nora's Realms of Memory: volume III, pp 325-346.[CR]
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Week 10. November 22-26.
PARIS AS SPECTACLE FOR SALE
Tuesday: The Paris Where Highbrow Meets Lowbrow
Thursday: Paris and Mass Culture: in movies and music.
Recommended student visits: Bon Marché, Samaritaine, Galéries Lafayette, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Hotel Drouot, Carreau du Temple, Puces de St-Ouen.)
- Michael B. Miller, The Bon Marché: Bourgeois Culture and the Department Store, 1869- 1920, pt. III, pp. 75-129.
- T.J. Clark, "A Bar at the Folies Bergères," from The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and his Followers, pp. 205-268.[CR]
- Images from the Paris World's Fair, 1900
- Michael Seidman, "The Birth of the Weekend and the Revolts against Work: The Workers of the Paris Region during the Popular Front (1936-38)," French Historical Studies vol. 12, no. 2 (1981), pp. 249-276.[CR]
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Week 11. November 29-December 3.
THE PARIS OF FOREIGNERS, TOURISTS, EXPATS, SOLDIERS, IMMIGRANTS
Tuesday: Expatriates and Culture
Thursday: Immigrants and Society
(Recommended student visits: Tour Eiffel, Mosquée de Paris, American Cathedral, Café de la Coupole, Café de Flore, Café des Deux Magots, Conservatoire Rachmaninoff.)
- Cole, ch. 8 ("War and Peace, 1939-Present"), pp. 208-248.
- Tyler Stovall, "Freedom Overseas: African-American Soldiers Fight the Great War", in Paris Noir: African Americans in the City of Light, pp. 1-24.[CR]
- Ernest Hemingway, ch. 1, A Moveable Feast, pp. 3-8.
- Rosemary Wakeman, "Nostalgic Modernism and the Invention of Paris in the Twentieth Century," French Historical Studies (Winter 2003), pp. 115-144.[CR]
- Jackson, Jeffrey H, "Making Jazz French: The Reception of Jazz Music in Paris, 1927-1934," French Historical Studies, vol. 25, No. 1. (Winter, 2002), pp. 149-170.[CR]
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Week 12. December 6-10.
PARIS, WORLD WAR II AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
Tuesday: The Occupation
Thursday: Paris from the Fourth Republic to 1968
- Exhibition on the Liberation of Paris (1945)
- James F. Hollifield, "Immigration and Modernization," in J.F. Hollifield and G. Ross, Searching for the New France (London, 1991), 113-150.[CR]
- P. Burrin, "Intellectuals and self-preservation", France under the Germans, pp. 306-23.[CR]
- Andrew Feenberg and Jim Freedman, When Poetry Ruled the Streets. The French May Events of 1968 (Albany, 2001), pp. 1-30, 69-91.[CR]
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Week 13. December 13-17.
REVIEW AND FINAL EXAMINATIONS
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