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Metro stop paris: an underground history of the city of light

✍ Scribed by Recorded Books, Inc.;Dallas, Gregor

Book ID
100651577
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc; Walker & Co
Year
2009
Tongue
English
Weight
655 KB
Category
Fiction
City
New York
ISBN
0802719007

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✦ Synopsis

/ A history of Paris in twelve mEtro stops. / /MEtro Stop Paris recounts the extraordinary and colorful history of the City of Light, by way of twelve MEtro stops-a voyage across both space and time. At each stop a Parisian building, or street, or tomb or landmark sparks a story that holds particular significance for that area of the city. / /Dallas takes us to the jazz cellars and literary cafEs of Montparnasse and Saint-Germain-des-PrEs; the catacombs at Hell's Gate; and the OpEra during the days of Claude Debussy. A darker side of Paris emerges at the TrocadEro stop and a charitable side at the Gare du Nord, which highlights the work of Saint Vincent de Paul. Finally, our journey ends at PEre-Lachaise cemetery with the little-known story of Oscar Wilde's curious involvement in the Dreyfus affair, one of France's greatest legal scandals. From Hell (the Denfert-Rochereau stop on the south side of the city) to Heaven (the Gare du Nord at the north end of Paris), MEtro Stop Paris carries readers on a journey of the heart and mind. / /MEtro Stop Paris is a thinker's guide to Paris made up of "slices of life," little vignettes drawn from Paris's two thousand years of history. Taken separately, these are charming historic tales about a city known and loved by many, but read as a whole MEtro Stop Paris goes straight to the heart of what is quintessentially Parisian.

✦ Subjects

HISTORY -- Europe -- General

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