Author: Eric Hazan

In the history of European revolutions, the barricade stands as a glorious emblem. Its symbolic importance arises principally from the barricades o...

Since the disastrous Pompidou years, working-class Paris has been steadily nibbled away, either by destruction or more insidiously by a kind of in...

By documenting the everyday workings of the city, Magnums photographers capture the essence of Parisian life. Their photographs show the city as it...

In the history of European revolutions, the barricade is a glorious emblem, especially the barricades of Paris, which graced all the revolts of t...

In 1871, the working class of Paris, incensed by their lack of political power and tired of being exploited, seized control of the capital. This bo...

The Invention of Paris is a tour through the streets and history of the French capital under the guidance of radical Parisian author and publisher ...

Since the inception of the War on Terror, Israel has become increasingly important to Western imperial strategy and ever more aggressive in its pol...

We have witnessed a beginning, the birth of a new age of revolt and upheaval. In North Africa and the Middle East it took the people a matter of da...

Eric Hazan, author of the acclaimed The Invention of Paris, leads us by the hand in this walk from Ivry to Saint-Denis, passing such familiar land...

The assault on the Bastille, the Reign of Terror, Danton mocking his executioner, Robespierre dispensing a fearful justice, and the archetypal gadf...