To quote from one review: "In Rebel Paris you have two writers who have lived in the city for over forty years and know it like the back of their hand. What they have written is equal parts guidebook and history. It is thick, frequently with thieves of various sorts, as well as writers, revolutionaries, anarchists, feminists, and anyone else who had a bone to pick with the status quo. Their argument is that that is precisely what has made Paris the city it is."

Please Note: This book is listed under HAS NOT BEEN PUBLISHED because it was published in French and Spanish, where it enjoyed some success. It is looking for a home in ENGLISH.

Persons and events covered in Rebel Paris:
First Itinerary – Six Hours
One: The Revolution of 1848, Claire Lacombe, Chopin, Courbet, Hubertine Auclert, General Claude-Francois de Mallet, Moliere, the bohemia of Murget, the massacre of San Bartolome, Lacenaire, Marquis de Sade, the uprisings of August 1788, Francisco Ferrer i Guardia, Proudhon.

Two: Simon Bolivar, Babeuf, Toulouse-Lautrec, Cyrano de Bergerac, Jean Jaures, Casanova, Tortoni and Jose Marti, Allan Kardec, Zola, Amado Nervo.

Three: The International (anthem), Petroleras, Beranger.

Four: Michel Mourre (Notre Dame), Antonieta Rivas Mercado, Cartouche, Daumier, Etienne Marcel, the Commune of 1871, the Resistance (1944), the Marteau Rebellion (1382), Victor Hugo, Abelard and Heloise.

Five: George Sand, Rebellions against the English (4th century), Julio Cortazar, Ignacio de Loyola, Sigmund Freud, Elisee Reclus, Frantz Fanon, Liberto Mora, Jean Moulin, Andre Gill, Ernesto Guevara, Desiree Lieven, Jacques Gaillot, Henri Curiel, Hemingway, Subcomandante Marcos, Orwell, the revolution of the printing press, François Villon, Guy Debord.

Six: Michel Zevaco, Olympe de Gouges, Theroigne de Mericourt, Shakespeare & Co., Jules Valles, Robert Desnos, Alfred Jarry, Jacques Rigaut, Antonin Artaud, Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, Boris Vian, Guernica (Picasso), Marat.

Seven: Karl Marx, Auguste Vaillant, Bakunin, James Joyce, Flora Tristan, Pauline Roland.

Second Itinerary – Seven hours
Eight: Friedrich Engels, Leo Ferré, Charles de Gaulle, Felix Faure, Igor Stravinsky, Josephine Baker, Ravachol, Danielle Mitterand.

Nine: Francisco de Miranda, Felice Orsini, Josep Torres Campalans, Emile Henry, Lautrémont, Vicente Huidobro, Eric Satie.

Ten: Madame Bonnefoy, Jean Vigo.

Eleven: Rue Jean-Pierre-Timbaud, José Rizal.

Twelve: Enrique Lister, Noam Chomsky.

Thirteen: Deng Xiaoping, Emile Duval, Louis-Auguste Blanqui, Jean Genet.
Fourteen: Leon Trotsky, Arthur Rimbaud, Victor Serge, Rosa Luxemburg, Vladimir Lenin.

Third Itinerary – Four days
Fifteen: Manu Chao, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera.

Sixteen: Cornelius Castoriadis, Honore de Balzac, Pierre Louys and Roland Topor, Daniel Mermet.

Seventeen: Guy Moquet, La Bella Otero, Ho Chi Minh.

Eighteen: Sacre Cœur, Louise Michel, Celine, Jean Baptiste Clement.

Nineteen: Impressionism, Gustave Florens.

Twenty: Place Manouchian, Jules Bonnet, Père Lachaise, Abbot Pierre.

319 pages, with maps, recommended readings, footnotes.

Under consideration for a US/UK edition: Oscar Wilde, Henry Miller/Anais Nin, Tom Paine, Dos Passos, Nina Simone, the Beat Hotel, Serge Gainsbourg et plus.

Ignacio Ramonet both worked at and edited Le Monde Diplomatique, one of th emost highly regarded papers in France. The author of over ten books, he lives in Paris.
Ramon Chao also lives in Paris, arriving as a Spanish exile a few years before Ramonet. He has published two novels, along with journalism and cultural criticism. A musical prodigy as a youth, he is the father of Manu.