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Paris Movie Walks

Paris Movie Walks
  • Author(s): Michael Schurmann
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 20th Century onwards

Ten walking tours let you be the star on the greatest movie set in the world. From Truffaut and Godard to Hanks and Hepburn, Paris has been a magnet for filmmakers and movie stars, whose careers don’t seem complete...

Paris Noir – The Secret History of a City

Paris Noir – The Secret History of a City
  • Author(s): Jacques Yonnet
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): 1930s/1940s

Yonnet describes some of the darker areas of Paris, and takes you by the hand through the streets. Stunning.

Paris Requiem

Paris Requiem
  • Author(s): Lisa Appignanesi
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): End of 19th Century

Paris 1899. The city is a glittering hub of fin-desiecle activity. Theatres and galleries are vibrant with artistic energy. The new metro is under construction, and so is the site for the centennial Universal Exhibition. But there is also...

Paris, Paris

Paris, Paris
  • Author(s): David Downie
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Late 1900s

Swapping his native San Francisco for the City of Light, travel writer David Downie arrived in Paris in 1986 on a one-way ticket, his head full of romantic notions. Curiosity and the legs of a cross-country runner propelled him...

Paris: Biography of a City

Paris: Biography of a City
  • Author(s): Colin Jones
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Biography, Historical
  • Era(s): Various

In this intelligently-written and supremely entertaining new history, Colin Jones seeks to give a sense of the city of Paris as it was lived in and experienced over time. The focal point of generation upon generation of admirers and...

Parisian Postcards

Parisian Postcards
  • Author(s): Loui Franke
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 2011

Paris and environs – a Paris that you will not find in guidebooks.

Pure

Pure
  • Author(s): Andrew Miller
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1780s

Deep in the heart of Paris, its oldest cemetery Les Innocents in Les Halles in 1785 is, by 1785, overflowing, tainting the very breath of those who live nearby. Into their midst comes Jean-Baptiste Baratte, a young, provincial engineer...

Rotes Gold

Rotes Gold
  • Author(s): Tom Hillenbrand
  • Location(s): Luxembourg, Paris
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

“Tom Hillenbrand regt genussvoll den Appetit der Krimileser an.” Die Welt. Seit der Luxemburger Koch Xavier Kieffer mit Frankreichs berühmtester Gastrokritikerin liiert ist, wird er zu den exklusivsten Events eingeladen. Doch das edle Dinner beim Pariser Bürgermeister endet bereits...

Sarah’s Key

Sarah’s Key
  • Author(s): Tatiana de Rosnay
  • Location(s): Auschwitz/Birkenau, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s, Modern

Two stories intertwine: the first, that of Sarah, a 10 yr old girl who experiences the horrific round up of Jews in 1942 in Paris: the second, Julia Jarmond researches the history of Sarah and her family.

Savages: The Wedding (#1 The Saint-Étienne Quartet)

Savages: The Wedding (#1 The Saint-Étienne Quartet)
  • Author(s): Sabri Louatah
  • Location(s): Paris, Saint-Étienne
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A Saturday in May. Paris. It’s the eve of the French presidential elections – ‘The Election of the Century’ say the newspaper headlines – and Chaouch, the nation’s first Arab candidate, has victory in his sights. It has been...

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