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Graham Robb

Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris

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This is the Paris you never knew. From the Revolution to the present, Graham Robb has distilled a series of astonishing true narratives, all stranger than fiction, of the lives of the great, the near-great, and the forgotten.A young artillery lieutenant, strolling through the Palais-Royal, observes disapprovingly the courtesans plying their trade. A particular woman catches his eye; nature takes its course. Later that night Napoleon Bonaparte writes a meticulous account of his first sexual encounter. A well-dressed woman, fleeing the Louvre, takes a wrong turn and loses her way in the nameless streets of the Left Bank. For want of a map-there… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-393-06724-8
  • EAN: 9780393067248
  • Produktnummer: 5635224
  • Verlag: W W Norton & Co
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
  • Seitenangabe: 475 S.
  • Masse: H24.7 cm x B16.6 cm x D3.8 cm 865 g
  • Gewicht: 865

Über den Autor


Best-selling author Graham Robb was born in Manchester in 1958 and is a former Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. He is an acclaimed historian and biographer, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He has won the Whitbread Biography Prize and the Heinemann Award for Victor Hugo, as well as the Ondaatje Prize and Duff Cooper Prize for The Discovery of France. His book Parisians was a Sunday Times top ten bestseller. He lives on the Anglo-Scottish border.

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