Paris the Secret History

Name: Paris the Secret History
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ISBN: 9781596914254

ISBN-10: 1596914254

ISBN-13: 9781596914254

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Authors: Andrew Hussey

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"Vivid, informed, delectably readable...an enlightened introduction to the city's best-kept secrets. No visitor to France should go without it."Sunday Times(UK) Paris captures everyone's imaginations: It's a backdrop for Proust's fictional pederast, Robert Doisneau's photographic kiss, and Edith Piaf's serenaded soldier-lovers; a home as much to romance and love poems as to prostitution and opium dens. The city's dynamic, conflicted identity is visible everywherebetween cobblestones, in bars, on themetro. Andrew Hussey brings to life the urchins and artists who've left their marks on the city, filling in the gaps of a history that affected the disenfranchised as much as the nobility.Paris:…

Book details

List price: $22.00
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 11/5/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 512
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English