Views of Paris 1750 - 1850.In this book, the Parisian writer Eric Hazan takes you for a stroll through Paris as it was for his famous forebears Balzac, Stendhal, Hugo, and Nerval. A Paris that sparkles in the fresh, airy watercolours and drawings collected by the architect Destailleur, now housed in the Prints and Photographs Department of the Bibliothque Nationale de France. Despite the city's enduring medieval look, the Paris illustrated here is stirred by a revolutionary