Foreword by Eric Hazan, "red suburbs to the general Paris" offers us glimpses of the living (and somewhat nostalgic) workers' towns in the inner suburbs, in Aubervilliers Ivry, through Puteaux and wrote Montreuil.Alain Rustenholz many and often-exciting-books on Paris, including the beautiful "Paris workers" and the surprising "crossings Paris," whose light rays around the center is lively and original, useful complement to the "invention of Paris "by Eric Hazan. Doisneau photograph of book cover illustrates the way: the author looks for traces of the past city worker (which, of course, deprives us of a chapter on Neuilly ...) focusing on 'before 1939; each record is accurate and exciting, with the regret that it is not detailed further, which is a form of compliment.On learns many things here, so we hope that the author still deepen its subject, on the model of his "Paris crossings" and that we provide the ledger we lack the social, architectural and economic history of the surroundings of Paris, Argenteuil in Massy, Cergy in Evry. So let's take this incomplete collection of urban notices as the outline of a great book to come.
