"This book has its proximate origins in a session on the topic "Images of everyday urban life in French writing" which formed part of the conference of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies held at University College Dublin in 1999." - p.vi.
The city in French writing : the eighteenth-century experience = Écrire la ville au dix-huitième siècle. ISBN 1904558089. Published by University College Dublin Press in 2004. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.