Panorama of Paris Selections from Le Tableau De Paris

Mercier's Le Tableau de Paris, published from 1781 to 1788, is one of the forgotten treasures of French literature, offering a wealth of vivid portraits of Parisian life. Mercier was a pioneering urban ethnographer, a participant observer who described the society around him with the same sense of curiosity that drove the period's explorers to portray the natives of remote Pacific islands. He was a philanthropically minded reformer who used his pages to denounce ills ranging from inadequate garbage removal to traffic jams. This is an abridged edition with a new introduction and new b&w illustrations and maps.Mercier, Louis Sebastien is the author of 'Panorama of Paris Selections from Le Tableau De Paris' with ISBN 9780271019307 and ISBN 0271019301.