Paris to the Past: Traveling Through French History by Train

by Ina Caro

Book Overview

In one of the most inventive travel books in years, Ina Caro invites readers on twenty-five one-day train trips that depart from Paris and transport us back through seven hundred years of French history. Whether taking us to Orl?ans to evoke the miraculous visions of Joan of Arc, to Versailles to experience the flamboyant achievements of Louis XIV, or to the Place de la Concorde to witness the beheading of Marie Antoinette, Caro animates history with...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393078949
• ISBN13: 9780393078947
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.6" x 9.3"