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Paris Noir: The Secret History of a City

by Jacques Yonnet · 1954

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In 'Paris Noir', Yonnet tells us about some of the darker quarters of Paris's Left Bank, centred on the place Mauberge and the rue Mouffetard, as he experienced it.

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Audience
adult
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medium · 280 pages

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