Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction
Part I: The Advent of the Lower Depths
1. In the Den of Horror
2. Courts of Miracles
3. "Dangerous Classes"
Part II: Scenarios of Society's Underside
4. Empire of Lists
5. The Disguised Prince
6. The Grand Dukes' Tour
7. Poetic Flight
Part III: Ebbing of an Imaginary
8. Slow Eclipse of the Underworld
9. Persistent Shadows
10. Roots of Fascination
Conclusion
Notes
Index

Dominique Kalifa (1957-2020) was professor of history and director of the Center for Nineteenth-Century History at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. His books include The Belle Époque: A Cultural History, Paris and Beyond (Columbia, 2021).
Sarah Maza is Jane Long Professor in the Arts and Sciences and professor of history at Northwestern University.