Parisian Market Research Articles

La lirica lionese in versi italiani: il sonetto di Louise Labé e le ottave di Pernette Du Guillet

The essay recognizes the production in Italian of Louise Labé (in limine of her 24 French sonnets) and Pernette du Guillet (the two octaves of the Rymes) as a poetic micro manifesto. It is a lyric that shows with extreme competence its sources – Petrarch but also Serafino Aquilano and Leon Ebreo – to introduce a reflection on the poetry of the ‘dame’ and its cultural implications, not least those of an editorial policy sensitive to the feminine theme and in competition with the Parisian market at the same time.

‘In the name of humanity’: redefining socio-economic assistance in the revolutionary marketplace

Abstract Most studies of socio-economic rights in the French Revolution have focused on how officials and other deliverers of aid struggled to redefine assistance, rather than on how recipients themselves contributed to the idea. In contrast, this article centres on poor Parisian market women called the Dames des Halles to bring to light the voices, discourses, and actions of individuals demanding rights and assistance. The Dames had relied on charity and privilege to conduct their commerce during the Old Regime, but the Revolution upended their advantages. Balancing discourses of humanity and utility, the Dames sought to recalibrate their place in the body politic in order to maintain occupational exemptions, favourable commercial positions, and exceptional access to public space. Their battles reveal how everyday citizens and the National Assembly first struggled to reinterpret socio-economic assistance as corrupt privilege, as the state’s civic duty, or as exemptions earned by poor working citizens.

What is happening in Paris? Airbnb, hotels, and the Parisian market: A case study

Airbnb has been the subject of heated discussions among tourism and hospitality scholars. In order to understand the true impact of P2Psharing on the tourism and hospitality landscape, it is important to understand that market in detail first. Therefore, in this paper, we explore the development of the Airbnb market over the last seven years in Paris, the most popular destination for Airbnb guests with more than 40,000 accommodation rentals. This research note is a summary of our findings on the Paris market. Our study shows different growth and seasonality patterns for Airbnb and hotels and dissimilarities in the geographical location of the offers. The findings indicate that the two products are not in direct competition and that their relationship might be more complex than previously thought. We trust that exploring the nature of the competitive relationship would be a valuable avenue for further investigation.

Long-run equilibrium for the Greater Paris office market and short-run adjustments

While there is an abundant literature on office market modelling, only few studies focus on the Greater Paris case, which stands as the largest office market in Europe. This article aims at contributing to the understanding of the Parisian rental office market underlying mechanisms. We use cointegration techniques including Gregory–Hansen structural break approach to model the market over the period 1990–2013. We employ a two-stage error correction framework to identify the long-run equilibrium rent as well as the short-run adjustments in rent, vacancy rate and stock. The findings show that once allowances are made for a regime shift in the long-run rent relationship, the specified model explains relatively well the Parisian market. The long-run results confirm the role of employment and total stock as long-run determinants of rental values. Yet, in the short-run, due to the inertia arising from the intrinsic features of the office market, lagged dependent variables appear to be drifting rents away from their equilibrium.

Politics in the Marketplace: The Popular Activism and Cultural Representation of the Dames des Halles during the French Revolution

A Versailles, a Versailles. Le 5 octobre 1789, gravure anonyme Bibliotheque nationale de France, 1789 Three months after French revolutionaries stormed the Bastille, Parisian market women, called the Dames des Halles, led thousands of women in a march to Versailles. After demanding bread from the king, petitioning the National Assembly, and rallying thousands of National Guards, the Dames triumphantly returned to Paris with bread and the king himself. On this and many other occasions, the ma...

Note sur les « dettes » de l'esclavage : le cas de l'indemnité payée par Haïti (1825-1883)

Much separates the immense traffic in slaves from the small quarrel over the indemnity that Haiti had to pay to France as recognition of its independence, and, much later, from the different loans Haiti launched on the Parisian market to balance its finances. Ignorance or demagogy are too often combined. This article places these questions in their historical context.

The Edible Frog

YOUR correspondent Mr. Miller (vol. x. p. 483), will find, in Cooke's “British Reptiles,” p. 103, accounts of other endeavours to naturalise Rana esculenta. About ten years ago I imported a basket full from the Parisian fish-market, where they can easily be obtained, and turned them out into a pond at Woburn Abbey, in Bedfordshire. They thrived and multiplied there; but our summers are seldom hot enough to enable the tadpole to attain his full development before the cold autumnal nights set in. Last week, for example, I forwarded to Prof. Huxley a living tadpole of R. esculenta, born in Bedfordshire, who will scarcely complete his evolution before the winter, though his hind legs are fully developed. I have several summers, however, observed a plentiful supply of young esculentæ, and I believe that in our climate the young will pass the winter as tadpoles, and complete their transformation in the following spring. But this would require more accurate observation before I can affirm it with certainty. During the past summer I imported from Berlin a fresh supply of 200 exceedingly fine specimens, as my French frogs had been reduced in numbers after the frequent visits of a heron. R. esculenta is easily imported in the spring, and will travel many days packed in damp moss. These frogs are easily preserved, being more aquatic in their habits than our R. temporariæ, who roam through the woods and meadows in search of food when the breeding season is over, while the edible frog remains on the banks of his native pond, into which he plunges, describing a graceful curve, at the slightest approach of danger. They have been introduced into Ireland quite lately, from France, by the Earl of Granard, at Castle Forbes; with what success I am unable yet to say. In the spring any number can be easily obtained from the Parisian market, or the aquarium shop of M. Carbonier, 20, Quai du Louvre, Paris; or from the keeper of the reptiles in the Jardin des Plantes, who always has a plentiful supply to feed his snakes.