Roissy Express: A Journey Through the Paris Suburbs

by François Maspero

Book Overview

Accompanied by photographer Anaik Frantz, Francois Maspero embarked on a journey along the RER, the express subway which leads through the Paris suburbs. Getting off the train at each stop, he and Frantz present a picture of daily life in France which tourists seldom see: a world where names don't make sense, where immigrants from Burkino Faso live in run-down tower-blocks called Debussy on the avenue Karl Marx, their children dodging the police between...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0860916987
• ISBN13: 9780860916987
• Release Date: July 1994
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary