Joan DeJean is Trustee Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of ten books on French literature, history, and material culture, including most recently The Age of Comfort: When Paris Discovered Casual and the Modern Home Began and The Essence of Style: How the French Invented High Fashion, Fine Food, Chic Cafés, Style, Sophistication, and Glamour. She lives in Philadelphia and, when in Paris, on the street where the number 4 bus began service on July 5, 1662.
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Bloomsbury presents How Paris Became Paris by Joan DeJean, read by Patricia Rodriguez 'This lively history charts the growth of Paris from a city of crowded alleyways and irregular buildings into a modern marvel.'--New Yorker At the beginning of the... SEE MORE