Jean-Loup Hubert Essays
Paris as Pastoral: Urbanity in The 400 Blows and Le Grand Chemin College
The Grand Highway (Le Grand Chemin)
The 1959 film Les 400 Coups (The Four hundred blows, a French idiom referencing something along the lines of “raising hell”) articulates the city of Paris as a city full of temptations and corruption, which shapes Antoine into the character he...