City on the Seine
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Andrew Trout's chronicle of Paris during the period preceding the end of Louis XIV's reign is a fascinating history of the city anchored by the lives of two of its most famous citizens. Beginning with the emergence of Cardinal Richelieu as a political force and concluding with Louis XIV in the last years of his reign, Trout's narrative describes the city as it looked during the seventeenth century and touches on a myriad of interesting questions: Did Paris have sidewalks? Did the houses have numbers?
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Were residential buildings flush with the street? What were the views like along the River Seine? Illustrated with maps and engravings that bring the city to life, Trout's book offers a view of Paris that is unequaled. City on the Seine: Paris in the Time of Richelieu and Louis XIV, 1614-1715 is an engaging and indispensable work of social history.
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