Disappeared
An Underground History of Paris
Do you know how the Mona Lisa ended up in the Louvre? Or how many heads were chopped off on the spot now occupied by the Place de la Concorde? Or that the last Gallic warriors massacred by the Romans are buried beneath the Eiffel Tower? Or how a 17th-century traffic jam led to the murder of France's King Henri IV?Using twenty-one stops of the Paris Métro as its starting points - from La Cité to La Défense - METRO-LAND describes the events and the people that have shaped the world's most romantic city.Devoting a chapter to each century of the Parisian past, and crammed with the sort of anecdotes that make history really entertaining and access…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-78185-899-8
- EAN: 9781781858998
- Produktnummer: 17332168
- Verlag: Head Of Zeus
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Masse: H19.8 cm x B12.6 cm x D2.5 cm 258 g
- Gewicht: 258
Über den Autor
Anthony Quinn was born in Northern Ireland's County Tyrone and majored in English at Queen's University, Belfast. After graduating, he had a number of odd jobs - social worker, organic gardener, yoga teacher - before finding work as a journalist and author.
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