Tracing the Roots of Celebrity

July 24, 2009 07:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time

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Stanford art historian, Michael Marrinan, explains how his scholarship led him to write a cultural history of Paris.

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Stanford art historian, Michael Marrinan, explains how his scholarship led him to write a cultural history of Paris.

Louis Boulanger, Paganini in Prison, 1831. Courtesy of Stanford University Libraries, photograph Michael Marrinan

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The Arc de Triomphe in Paris Photo credit: iStockphoto.com

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