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Paris, by Andrew Hussey (Bloomsbury; $32.50). Hussey highlights the "marginal and subversive" in this entertaining cultural history. Chronicling the city's development "in space, in timeand on the street," he pays keen attention to traces of the past that persist in the landscape of the present, and delights in detailing the "hustlers, whores and heretics" who fuel the beguiling chaos he portrays as endemic to the city. (In the thirteenth century, ...