Paris, Paris, journey into the city of light : the places, the people and the phenomena of Paris in thirty essays / David Downie ; foreword by Diane Johnson ; thirty original black & white photographs by Alison Harris.
Foreword / by Diane Johnson -- Life's a café. Paris places: A day in the dark, the Luxembourg Gardens -- Island in the Seine, Île-Saint-Louis -- A lively city of the dead, Père-Lachaise -- François' follies -- Buttes-Chaumont and Montsouris, the art of the faux -- Going underground -- It's the water, the Seine -- The place des Vosges -- Belly ache, Les Halles -- Go east, young Frenchman -- Paris people: Coco Channel -- Les bouquinistes -- Midnight, Montmarte and Modigliani -- The boat people of the Seine -- Meeting Moureau -- The perils of Pompidou -- Past masters, the keepers of the craft -- Dear dead Vincent Van Gogh -- Beaumarchais' Marais --tMadame X's seduction school -- Paris phenomena: In the Spring -- The Janus city, or why the year 1900 lives on -- La Ville Lumière, Paris city of light -- Philosophy au lait -- The Michelin man cometh, the star system -- Sidewalk sundae, what makes Paris, Paris -- Vie de chien, a dog's life -- Why the Marais changed its spots -- Night walking -- Life's a café.
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