Roissy Express
A Journey Through the Paris Suburbs
Francois Maspero(Author)
Verso Books (Publisher)
Published on 17. July 1994
Book
Hardback
276 pages
978-0-86091-373-3 (ISBN)
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Description
Accompanied by photographer Anaik Frantz, Francois Maspero embarked on a journey along the RER, the express subway which leads through the Paris suburbs. Getting off the train at each stop, he and Frantz present a picture of daily life in France which tourists seldom see: a world where names don't make sense, where immigrants from Burkino Faso live in run-down tower-blocks called Debussy on the avenue Karl Marx, their children dodging the police between the lycee Jules Valles and the Yuri Gagarin youth-club; a world where there are still memories of the Commune, the Popular Front or the camp at Drancy from where French officials sent a hundred thousand Jews to Auschwitz; a world where no one is a racist, but National Front posters are everywhere. Maspero's aim is to put this world back on the map.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 163 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
660 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-86091-373-3 (9780860913733)
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07/1994
Verso Books
€33.00
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