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Paris, Paris: Journey into the City of Light

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Beautifully written and refreshingly original . . . makes us see [Paris] in a different light.”— San Francisco Chronicle Book Review

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 daily from an unheated, seventh-floor walk-up garret near the Champs-Elysées to the old Montmartre haunts of the doomed painter Modigliani, the tombs of Père-Lachaise cemetery, the luxuriant alleys of the Luxembourg Gardens and the aristocratic Île Saint-Louis midstream in the Seine.

Downie wound up living in the chic Marais district, married to the Paris-born American photographer Alison Harris, an equally incurable walker and chronicler. Ten books and a quarter-century later, he still spends several hours every day rambling through Paris, and writing about the city he loves. An irreverent, witty romp featuring thirty-one short prose sketches of people, places and daily life, Paris, Journey into the City of Light ranges from the glamorous to the least-known corners and characters of the world’s favorite city.

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823 DOW p

Publisher

New York : Crown publishers., 2005

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303 pages

Language

English

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9780307886088

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823

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English, 2005

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Fiction
travel
France

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