The Dynamite Club: How a Bombing in Fin-de-Siècle Paris Ignited the Age of Modern Terror

by John M. Merriman

“The straight line [of the boulevards] has killed off the picturesque and the unexpected.” Rue de Rivoli, “so long, wide, and cold, on which promenade prosperous people as cold as the street on which they walk,” formed an apt example.