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Footprints in Paris: A Few Streets, A Few Lives
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Description
Five individuals all related in some way reveal a web of human feeling and experiences across two centuries. There is the young doctor who walked from Edinburgh to Paris at the time of Napoleon's downfall; the self-made Victorian businessman who traded with the brash capital of the Second Empire; his reserved son who found in the old stones of Paris a refuge from his fraught childhood; Maud the archetypal English spinster who somehow managed to construct an alternatative experience in Paris; and Julia young and desperate who found her own unlikely salvation there in a very different era.
Gillian Tindall brings Paris alive - whether it's the network of streets that form the Left Bank the resonance of 'Bohemia' and its garrets cafes and artists 'Gay Paree' with its music halls and courtesans or the past chroniclers of the city such as Zola George du Maurier and Orwell. But featured far more than the famous are the unsung citizens for whom Gillian Tindall has such empathy.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
384
Release Date:
2010-03-04
Publication Date:
2010-03-04
Publisher:
Pimlico
Languages:
Published:
English,
Original:
English
ISBN10:
1845950895
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
Minimum Reading Age:
0
Weight:
497 g
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Very good
Almost no signs of wear. Book pages have no markings, accessories are intact and all other media are in good condition.
€11,59