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Parisian Street Names: A Guide to Street Names – Milchina Vera – New Literary Review – 2024 – ISBN 978-5-4448-2202-9

Parisian Street Names: A Guide to Street Names
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"Paris Street Names" is a guidebook of a special kind. It is about words - the words that are inscribed in white and blue on the plaques that hang on the walls of Parisian houses. The book tells the story of the names of Parisian streets, squares, bridges and quays. Behind each name is either an episode of French history, or a picturesque detail of Parisian everyday life, or a forgotten layer of the French language, and most often both, and the third at once. If we translate these names, it turns out that in Paris there are streets of Cabbage Leaf and Kaplunovaya, Ferry and Stove, Cat Fisherman and Beautiful View, and this view was opened from the hill, which was formed from centuries-old garbage. The book will be interesting and useful not only to those who walk in the real Paris, but also to those who read books about it, where the names of streets are given not in translation, but in transcription. "Names of Parisian Streets" is a continuation of the book by Vera Milchina, a leading researcher of IVGI RSUU, "Paris in 1814-1848: everyday life" (UFO, 2013).
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