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Paris For Dreamers Katrina Lawrence by Katrina Lawrence B07T62T6PW instant download after payment.
This is a wonderfully unique guidebook for all lovers of Paris,
and travellers to the City of Light — even those of the armchair
variety.
Following on from Paris Dreaming: What the City of Light
Taught Me About Life, Love & Lipstick, author and journalist Katrina
Lawrence returns to the subject of her favourite city, with Paris for
Dreamers: Whimsical Walks Through the City of Light’s Delights.
As your virtual walking tour guide, Katrina will help you discover a Paris that sparkles all the more.
Paris
for Dreamers is a collection of 25 inspired strolls, which not only
take you on particular Parisian paths, but also tell you singular
stories about Paris, to enhance your appreciation of this beguiling
city.
Discover Paris’s most fabulous architectural follies, and
swoon at the city’s most breathtaking views. Look at Paris through the
Impressionists’ eyes, and Montmartre in a new rose-tinted light. See the
Louvre for the glamorous living palace it once was. Visit the Left Bank
of the original bohemians, the Saint-Germain of the philosophers, and
the Marais of sixteenth-century salon society.
These whimsical walks
unlock all sorts of portals into the past. Revel in a bubbly Belle
Époque, party it up in Rococo Paris, or shop as they did in the
nineteenth century. Imagine the city as the glamorous Gothic island town
it once was. Further back in time still, find the remnants from Paris’s
Roman period.
Expertly researched, and chatty in tone, this is a
book that informs as much as entertains and inspires. With each walk,
you’ll collect all sorts of fascinating trivia, from the stories behind
bridges and buildings, to the origins of the restaurant, the picnic,
carousels, and much more.
Along the way, you’ll also meet some of
history’s most captivating people, such as the Marquise de Pompadour,
Colette, Coco Chanel, Héloïse and Abélard, Audrey Hepburn, Ernest
Hemingway, Marcel Proust and Voltaire. And literature’s most colourful
characters, too: Cinderella, Madame Bovary, the Vicomte de Valmont,
Quasimodo, and more.
Paris for Dreamers is a must-read for anyone who
wants to experience Paris on a deeper level, or simply fall in love
with the city that much more.
