The World of the Paris Cafa(c)

The author investigates what the working-class cafe reveals about the formation of urban life in 19th-century France. Cafe society was not the product of an eli... » 

The author investigates what the working-class cafe reveals about the formation of urban life in 19th-century France. Cafe society was not the product of an elite of intellectuals he argues, but the creation of a diverse and changing working population. «