Paris: The Secret History is a book by Andrew Hussey.
Professor Andrew Hussey OBE is a cultural historian and biographer, born in Liverpool, England. He was educated at the University of Manchester and Université de Lyon3. He received his PhD for a thesis on Georges Bataille, eventually published as his first book. His biography of Guy Debord... was named by Julian Barnes as 'International Book of the Year' in the Times Literary Supplement 2001. He lectured in French at the University of Huddersfield in the mid to late 1990s. He was a Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Wales Aberystwyth and since 2006 he has been the Dean of the Institute at University of London Institute in Paris. He began his career as a journalist writing for Julie Burchill's Modern Review in the early 1990s. He now regularly contributes to The Observer newspaper., The New Statesman, Granta and the Literary Review. In 2007 he provided the foreword to How to Enjoy Paris in 1842, written by Francis Hervé. He is best known for his history of Paris, Paris - The Secret History, described by Peter Ackroyd in the Times as 'Endlessly informative, with a story on every page'.more
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