Luc Sante: OTHER PARIS [2015] hardback CULTF Hailed by critics as a

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Luc Sante: OTHER PARIS [2015] hardback CULTF Hailed by critics as aParis, the City of Light. We think of it as the city of the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre, of white facades, discreet traffic and well mannered exchanges. But there was another Paris, hidden from view and virtually extinct today the Paris of the working and criminal classes that shaped the city over the past two centuries. In the voices of Balzac and Hugo, assorted boulevardiers, barflies, rabble rousers and tramps, Sante takes the reader on a vivid