Résumé :
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"In Paris Noir, Yonnet tells is about some of the darker quarters of Paris's Left Bank, centred on the place Mauberge and the rue Mouffetard, as he experienced it.It is mainly written during the 1940s, under the occupation and in the immediate post-war period; there is a certain amount dealing with the resistance, but the main thrust of the book is a Paris that existed between the wars - and is well known from the film noir -but has since disappeared. It concentrates on the people, rather than places, a mixture of ordinary workers, tradesmen, artists, con-men and criminals.It invests the area with a sense of mystery including occasional supernatural events; its style is remarkable and Yonnet often draws on language of the inhabitants of the area. It is the perfect counterfoil for J.K.Huysmans' Parisian Sketches which was published back in 2004 and a beautiful snapshot of one of the world's most beautiful cities."
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