Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris

by Graham Robb

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393067246
• ISBN13: 9780393067248
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.8" x 10.1"