Cavorting with Strangers: Great Ideas and Their Champions

By F. Patrick Butler

Paris in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries was home to some of the most creative people on earth. These men and women, whose names are so famous, are now acclaimed as revolutionaries of the human... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 187938471X
• ISBN13: 9781879384712
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Cypress House
• Length: 564 Pages
• Weight: 1.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Fascinating view of historical figures!

Cavorting with Strangers presents a unique and entertaining side of some of the most celebrated historical figures. A must read!

Cavorting with two worlds.

Jean-Michel is an intelligent, somewhat down-in-the-heels professor of French manners, mores, and the movers who espoused them. To make money he agrees to teach a young American would-be tour guide, a female Charly. European culture and snobbery meet American brashness and snobbery. The two characters are well balanced and witty; and the potential for romance is in the air. As tutor, guide, and mentor, Jean-Michel introduces Charly to a variety of people. Colonel deMonteaux exposes her to his Napoleon, a man with warts as well as the conqueror. Jean-Michel's nephew Guy is studying Monet and is all too willing to show off to the young attractive American. Butler has a keen ear for dialect and nuance. His humor both of language and of character will leave the reader smiling and chuckling. I recommend pgs. 75-78 as indicative of both language and humor. Provocative and entertaining, here is a book with depth and life, a book which holds up to re-reading. Bettie Kelley, ret. English Department University of Pittsburgh

It reads with quotes, drama and fictional embellishment but is nonfiction at its best.

CAVORTING WITH STRANGERS: GREAT IDEAS AND THEIR CHAMPIONS - PARIS tells of one Charly Brooks, who takes a job as a Paris tour guide and who must learn about French culture and history to hold her position. Her probe into French history, ironies and inconsistencies carries readers through the major personalities and figures of French culture and is a key to understanding the French: it reads with quotes, drama and fictional embellishment but is nonfiction at its best. Diane C. Donovan California Bookwatch