Parisians

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An Adventure History of Paris

Autor: Graham Robb

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Väzba: Brožovaná

Vydavateľ: W W NORTON & CO

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This is the Paris you never knew. From the Revolution to the present, Graham Robb has distilled a se...

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Autor

Graham Robb

Jazyk

Angličtina

Väzba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydalo

2011

Stránok

476

EAN

9780393339734

ISBN

0393339734

Enbook ID

04604740

Vydavateľ

W W NORTON & CO

Hmotnosť

406

Rozmery

140 x 209 x 24

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This is the Paris you never knew. From the Revolution to the present, Graham Robb has distilled a series of astonishing true narratives, all stranger than fiction, of the lives of the great, the near-great, and the forgotten. A young artillery lieutenant, strolling through the Palais-Royal, observes disapprovingly the courtesans plying their trade. A particular woman catches his eye; nature takes its course. Later that night Napoleon Bonaparte writes a meticulous account of his first sexual encounter. A well-dressed woman, fleeing the Louvre, takes a wrong turn and loses her way in the nameless streets of the Left Bank. For want of a map there were no reliable ones at the time Marie-Antoinette will go to the guillotine. Baudelaire, the photographer Marville, Baron Haussmann, the real-life Mimi of La Boheme, Proust, Adolf Hitler touring the occupied capital in the company of his generals, Charles de Gaulle (who is suspected of having faked an assassination attempt in Notre Dame) these and many more are Robb s cast of characters, and the settings range from the quarries and catacombs beneath the streets to the grand monuments to the appalling suburbs ringing the city today. The result is a resonant, intimate history with the power of a great novel."

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