Paris

The World Bibliographical Series volume on Paris compiled by Frances Chambers is a selective guide to 430 works. Even though it concentrates on English language books and journal articles, the bibliography does rightly offer a selection of important French language titles.

It is organised into 22 sections on diverse subjects such as literature, geography, flora and fauna, population, language, the arts, mass media and history in the familiar WBS format.

The tome presents a solid coverage of North American university publications. Among them are Steven Kaplan’s important studies on bread, granaries, bakers and millers in the eighteenth century; Nicholas Papayanis...