Since the French Revolution, Paris has known more popular revolts, violent insurrections, and mass riots than any other city in the world.Paris was the revolutionary's Mecca for Marx and Bakunin, Lenin and Ho Chi Minh, Che Guevara and Marcos of the Zapatistas. All of them and dozens of lesser known made the pilgrimage to Paris in search of political inspiration and to breathe the rarefied air of the rebellious spirit of the Parisian revolutionaries. The city was a natural magnet for artistic revolution too. The anti-conformists, the enfants terribles, the geniuses who had the courage or the folly to follow an original idea once considered academic blasphemy?all of them came here. This was the city that witnessed the revolutions of realism, of symbolism, of impressionism and dada, of surrealism, of cubism, of existentialism and the Nouvelle Vague. This lively guide identifies the places the celebrated and anonymous rebels lived, the cafés and bistros where they gathered, the streets and neighbourhoods where the great confrontations?physical, intellectual, and artistic?took place, the locations of the famous and recurrent barricades and of the events that would find their place in history. On the eve of the 40th anniversary of the student revolt of May 68, the reader can retrace all the places in Paris that are haunted by the memory of centuries of struggle, with the help of detailed maps of every quarter in this fascinating and original new guide.