A Brief History of Paris by Cecil Jenkins - ISBN: 9781472146151
Paperback
Walk through history in Paris, a city of love and conflict.

A Brief History of Paris

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  • Paperback

    352 pages

  • Release Date

    24 October 2022

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Summary

Paris: city of love, food and fashion.

Paris: the city that played host to major historical and cultural dramas.

Paris: a modern metropolis.

Paris is all of these, all at once, all the time.

There is a unique fusion of past and present in this purposefully grand and well-planned city. The Triumphal Way, which runs straight from the Louvre through the Tuileries Gardens, across the Place de la Co…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781472146151
ISBN-10:1472146158
Author:Cecil Jenkins
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:Robinson
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:352
Release Date:24 October 2022
Weight:280g
Dimensions:196mm x 126mm x 30mm
About The Author

Cecil Jenkins

Cecil Jenkins was educated at Trinity College Dublin before becoming a French Government research scholar at the Ecole Normale Superieure de Paris. He has taught modern French literature and society at the universities of Exeter, British Columbia and Sussex, where he also served as Dean of the School of European Studies. While he has published in other fields, his writings on France include books on the Nobel Prizewinning novelist François Mauriac and the novelist, art historian and De Gaulle’s Minister for Culture Andre Malraux.

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