
About the Author: James Cannon
James Cannon lectures in the French Studies program at La Trobe University. His research focuses on the urban and cultural history of Paris and on French popular song. His publications include : “La zone entre classes laborieuses et classes dangereuses: les marges parisiennes de la Belle Époque à la fin des années 1970”, Espaces et sociétés 171/4, 2017, 37-54 ; The Paris ‘zone’: a cultural history, 1840–1944 (Farnham: Ashgate, 2015) ; “Representations of the Paris ‘zone’ in Catholic and Communist culture of the interwar years: Grégoire Leclos’ Notre-Dame de la Mouise (1930-31) and Louis Aragon’s Les beaux quartiers (1936)”, French History and Civilization: Papers from the George Rudé Seminar 3, 2009, 126-136.
Email: J.Cannon@latrobe.edu.au