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In Paris Noir Yonnet tells is about some of the darker quarters of Paris on the left bank of the Seine, centred on the place Mauberge and the rue Mouffetard, as seen from his own experience. It is mainly written during the 1940s, under the Occupation and in the immediate post-war period; there is a certain amount dealing with the resistance, but the main thrust of the book is a Paris that existed between the wars - and is well known from the film noir -but has since disappeared. It concentrates on the people, rather than places, a mixture of ordinary workers, tradesmen, artists, con-men and criminals. It invests the area with a sense of mystery including occasional supernatural events; it is extremely well written, often using the language of the inhabitants of the area. Raymond Queneau considered it the greatest book ever written about Paris. It is the perfect counterfoil for J.K.Huysmans Parisian Sketches which we published in 2004 which showed the darker side of Paris pre Haussman's big boulevards. REVIEWS 'Among the books you must read before you die is Paris Noir by Jacques Yonnet.' Raphael Sorin

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"Jacques Yonnet (1915-1974) was a French writer and poet. He fought during the Second World War in the French Resistance and was a prisoner of war. His most famous work is the Rue des Malefices - the Chronique secrete d'une ville, translated into English as the enchanted streets of Paris. An intimate chronicle of a city, for which it was ""unanimously considered as the most brilliant meteor of French literature"""

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