Paris and Its Inhabitants in the 18th Century: The Capital of the Enlightenment

Anatomy of Paris of the Age of Enlightenment - from high ideas to everyday life, from Voltaire to criminals, from the Masonic world to sewerage and many other very different subjects. A detailed and fascinating narrative by historians Sergei Karp and Nadezhda Plavinskaya. The book talks about the most diverse aspects of life in Paris of the Age of Enlightenment. It is not just about the rhetoric of the masterminds of New Thought, it is also discussed how the city was organized: the population and estates, trade and crafts corporations, the concerns of urban authorities and the fight against crime, modernization and development of Paris, urban hygiene and health of its inhabitants, arrangement of houses, folk culture and secular society, Masonic Lodges and Russians in Paris. The well-known Turgot map of Paris, a masterpiece of cartographic art, is reproduced inside the book jacket.