Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris Pdf Summary
The secrets of the City of Light, revealed in the lives of the great, the near-great, and the forgotten—by the author of the acclaimed The Discovery of France.
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.
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. An aristocratic 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, Baron Haussmann, the real-life Mimi of La Bohème, Proust, Charles de Gaulle (who is suspected of having faked an assassination attempt on himself in Notre Dame) —these and many more are Robb’s cast of characters. The result is a resonant, intimate history with the power of a great novel. 16 pages of illustrations.
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About Graham Robb Author Of Parisians pdf Book
Graham Macdonald Robb FRSL Author Of Parisians pdf Book (born June 2, 1958) is a British author.
Robb was born in Manchester and educated at the Royal Grammar School Worcester and Exeter College, Oxford, where he studied Modern Languages. He earned a PhD in French literature at Vanderbilt University.
He won the 1997 Whitbread Book Award for best biography (Victor Hugo) and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Rimbaud in 2001. In 2007, he won the Duff Cooper Prize for The Discovery of France.
On April 28, 2008 he was awarded the £10,000 Ondaatje Prize by the Royal Society of Literature in London for The Discovery of France.
Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris pdf, Paperback, Hardcover Book Information
- Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company; 1st Edition (April 26, 2010)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 496 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0393067246
- ISBN-13 : 978-0393067248
- Item Weight : 1.87 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.5 x 1.4 x 9.6 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #586,303 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,180 in French History (Books)
- Customer Reviews: 4.3 out of 5 stars 178 ratings
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