A HISTORY OF PARIS
From "the Marshland" to the "City of Lights"
An Adult Education Series by Dr. William J. Neidinger
Few cities boast so many famous and identifiable
landmarks as Paris: the Louvre, Notre-Dame, the
Bastille (in memory, at least), the Champs-Élysées, and
the Eiffel Tower. Yet the Parisians have been rough on
their own monuments; the Louvre has been demolished
and rebuilt a number of times; the Bastille is gone; Notre-
Dame was ransacked during the Revolution; and the
Eiffel Tower, much maligned at the time, was supposed
to have been only a temporary structure. When Baron
Haussmann laid out many of the wide and splendid
boulevards of the city in the nineteenth century, he was
lambasted for having destroyed “the charms of medieval
Paris.”
These six lectures will trace the history of Paris from its
humble beginnings as a crossing station in the marshes
along the Seine, to its foundation as a fortified capital
city, to its rise as a center of learning, to its role as
exporter of revolution, and finally to its position in the
vanguard of the avant-garde. The lectures will not only
focus on the surviving monuments of the city, but also
on some of the more flamboyant characters who have
graced the pages of the city’s history.
The lectures are richly illustrated with images, and
course materials include detailed lecture notes and an
extensive syllabus with maps and ground plans.
LECTURES:
Six lectures.
908 DVD. 6 lectures on DVD $40.00.
918 CD. 6 lectures on audio CD $30.00.
From "the Marshland" to the "City of Lights"
An Adult Education Series by Dr. William J. Neidinger
Few cities boast so many famous and identifiable
landmarks as Paris: the Louvre, Notre-Dame, the
Bastille (in memory, at least), the Champs-Élysées, and
the Eiffel Tower. Yet the Parisians have been rough on
their own monuments; the Louvre has been demolished
and rebuilt a number of times; the Bastille is gone; Notre-
Dame was ransacked during the Revolution; and the
Eiffel Tower, much maligned at the time, was supposed
to have been only a temporary structure. When Baron
Haussmann laid out many of the wide and splendid
boulevards of the city in the nineteenth century, he was
lambasted for having destroyed “the charms of medieval
Paris.”
These six lectures will trace the history of Paris from its
humble beginnings as a crossing station in the marshes
along the Seine, to its foundation as a fortified capital
city, to its rise as a center of learning, to its role as
exporter of revolution, and finally to its position in the
vanguard of the avant-garde. The lectures will not only
focus on the surviving monuments of the city, but also
on some of the more flamboyant characters who have
graced the pages of the city’s history.
The lectures are richly illustrated with images, and
course materials include detailed lecture notes and an
extensive syllabus with maps and ground plans.
LECTURES:
- “. . . Cara Lutetia . . .”
- Gothic Paris.
- Catastrophes and Triumphs.
- From the Grand Siècle to the Terror.
- Revolutionary and Imperial Paris.
- Modern Paris.
Six lectures.
908 DVD. 6 lectures on DVD $40.00.
918 CD. 6 lectures on audio CD $30.00.
A HISTORY OF PARIS
908 DVD: 6 lectures on DVD $40.00.
918 CD. 6 lectures on audio CD $30.00.
908 DVD: 6 lectures on DVD $40.00.
918 CD. 6 lectures on audio CD $30.00.
