Table of Contents

Illustrations – Walls of Paris – Gothic Paris: Notre-Dame and the Île de la Cité – Renaissance Paris: Wars of Religion and the Louvre – Classical Paris: Louis XIV and Versailles – Romantic Paris: Napoléon and the Arc de Triomphe – Realism in Haussmann’s Paris – Impressionism and the Tour Eiffel – Cubism and Modern Architecture in Paris – Beaubourg and Postmodern Paris – Grands Travaux and Beyond – Illustration Credits.

About the Author

May Peyron Spangler was born and raised in Paris, where she graduated with a master’s degree in architecture from the École des Beaux-Arts. She also received a Ph.D. in French at Emory University in Atlanta, where she taught for eleven years. Her publications include critical essays and short stories combining her interest in literature and architecture, and she is the author of a novel published in 2016, Papa a dit, Maman aussi.