A Travellers History Of Paris

Author : Robert Cole
Publisher : Interlink Publishing Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Traveller's History of Paris written by Robert Cole and published by Interlink Publishing Group. This book was released on 1997 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packed with facts, anecdotes, and insight, "A Traveller's History of Paris" offers a complete history of the city and the people who have shaped its destiny. Illustrated with line drawings and historical maps.

Author : Robert Cole
Publisher : Phoenix
ISBN 13 : 9781842126837
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Traveller's History of Paris written by Robert Cole and published by Phoenix. This book was released on 2002 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ina Caro
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0393343154
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paris To the Past written by Ina Caro and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I’d rather go to France with Ina Caro than with Henry Adams or Henry James.”—Newsweek In one of the most inventive travel books in years, Ina Caro invites readers on twenty-five one-day train trips that depart from Paris and transport us back through seven hundred years of French history. Whether taking us to Orléans to evoke the visions of Joan of Arc or to the Place de la Concorde to witness the beheading of Marie Antoinette, Caro animates history with her lush descriptions of architectural splendors and tales of court intrigue. “[An] enchanting travelogue” (Publishers Weekly), Paris to the Past has become one of the classic guidebooks of our time.

Author : Robert Cole
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789997028174
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Traveller's History of Paris written by Robert Cole and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Cole
Publisher : Chastleton Travel
ISBN 13 : 9781905214402
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Travellers History Paris written by Robert Cole and published by Chastleton Travel. This book was released on 2002-06-11 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paris, in many people’s thoughts, is the epitome of the perfect city: beautiful, romantic and imbued with vitality and culture. It is a wonderful place to visit and to live. A ‘pride of place’ mentality has characterised Parisians for centuries: ‘to be in Paris, is to be enthused’, an anonymous correspondent wrote in 1323. Packed with fact, anecdote and insight, A Travelleri´s History of Paris, offers a complete history of the city and the people who have shaped its destiny, from its earliest settlement as a Roman village with a few hundred inhabit- ants, to twenty centuries later when Paris is a city of well of over two million, at the centre of a conurbation that exceeds 12 million, nearly one-fifth of the population of France.

Author : Andrew Hussey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1608192377
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paris written by Andrew Hussey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If Adam Gopnik's Paris to the Moon described daily life in contemporary Paris, this book describes daily life in Paris throughout its history: a history of the city from the point of view of the Parisians themselves. 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 many pieces of the city coexist, each one as real as the next. What's more, the conflicted identity of the city is visible everywhere-between cobblestones, in bars, on the métro. In this lively and lucid volume, 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: The Secret History ranges across centuries, movements, and cultural and political beliefs, from Napoleon's overcrowded cemeteries to Balzac's nocturnal flight from his debts. For Hussey, Paris is a city whose long and conflicted history continues to thrive and change. The book's is a picaresque journey through royal palaces, brothels, and sidewalk cafés, uncovering the rich, exotic, and often lurid history of the world's most beloved city.

Author : John Baxter
Publisher : Museyon Inc
ISBN 13 : 0984633421
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chronicles of Old Paris written by John Baxter and published by Museyon Inc. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover one of the world's most fascinating and beautiful cities through 30 dramatic true stories spanning the rich history of Paris. John Baxter takes readers through 2,000 years of French history with tales of the kings, queens, saints, and sinners who shaped the city. Essays explore the major historic events from the martyrdom of Saint Denis near today's Abbesses Métro station to the epic romances of Heloise and Abelard, Josephine and Napoleon, and George Sand and Frédéric Chopin. Learn about the labyrinth of catacombs snaking under all of Paris and the artists who called the seedy Montmartre home in the 19th century. Then see it all for yourself with guided walking tours of each of Paris's historic neighborhoods, illustrated with color photographs and period maps.

Author : David McCullough
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416576894
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Greater Journey written by David McCullough and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 bestseller that tells the remarkable story of the generations of American artists, writers, and doctors who traveled to Paris, fell in love with the city and its people, and changed America through what they learned, told by America’s master historian, David McCullough. Not all pioneers went west. In The Greater Journey, David McCullough tells the enthralling, inspiring—and until now, untold—story of the adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, and others who set off for Paris in the years between 1830 and 1900, hungry to learn and to excel in their work. What they achieved would profoundly alter American history. Elizabeth Blackwell, the first female doctor in America, was one of this intrepid band. Another was Charles Sumner, whose encounters with black students at the Sorbonne inspired him to become the most powerful voice for abolition in the US Senate. Friends James Fenimore Cooper and Samuel F. B. Morse worked unrelentingly every day in Paris, Morse not only painting what would be his masterpiece, but also bringing home his momentous idea for the telegraph. Harriet Beecher Stowe traveled to Paris to escape the controversy generated by her book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Three of the greatest American artists ever—sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, painters Mary Cassatt and John Singer Sargent—flourished in Paris, inspired by French masters. Almost forgotten today, the heroic American ambassador Elihu Washburne bravely remained at his post through the Franco-Prussian War, the long Siege of Paris, and the nightmare of the Commune. His vivid diary account of the starvation and suffering endured by the people of Paris is published here for the first time. Telling their stories with power and intimacy, McCullough brings us into the lives of remarkable men and women who, in Saint-Gaudens’ phrase, longed “to soar into the blue.”

Author : Robert Cole
Publisher : Interlink Books
ISBN 13 : 9781566566063
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Traveller's History of France written by Robert Cole and published by Interlink Books. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millions of travellers visit France each year. The glories of the French countryside, the essential harmony of French architecture, the wealth of historical relics, the myriad of cultural opportunities – all make the country a perennial and irresistible attraction. A Traveller's History of France takes the reader from the first conquests of ancient Gaul through the Renaissance, the turmoil and triumph of the French Revolution, and on through the 20th century of French history all the way to the present.

Author : James O'Reilly
Publisher : Travelers' Tales
ISBN 13 : 9781885211736
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Travelers' Tales France written by James O'Reilly and published by Travelers' Tales. This book was released on 2002 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this newly designed edition, acclaimed writers who have fallen in love with France--with the food, the land, the irrepressible French people--provide a mesmerizing literary tour of this special place. maps. Illustrations.