Paris and Her Remarkable Women A Guide

Name: Paris and Her Remarkable Women A Guide
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ISBN: 9781892145772

ISBN-10: 1892145774

ISBN-13: 9781892145772

Edition: 2009 (Guide (Instructor's))

Authors: Lorraine Liscio

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To visit a city is to hear its stories and glimpse its ghosts. This book evokes Paris from the Middle Ages through the twentieth century with exceptional women whose lives intersected with Paris in remarkable ways and whose eventual fame depended on the city itself. The women profiled include Madame Roland, Saint Genevieve, Marie Curie, Coco Chanel, Madame de Sevigne, Heloise, Christine de Pizan, Catherine de Medici, milie du Chatelet, Madame de Maintenon, Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun, Rachel, George Sand, Sarah Bernhardt, Colette, Simone de Beauvoir, and Camille Claudel. Their stories bring to life medieval culture, Enlightenment ideas, the court of Louis XIV, the chaos of the Revolution, the…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
Publication date: 10/27/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 128
Size: 8.00" wide x 7.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English