Read Paris, Paris: Journey Into the City of Light Online
Authors: David Downie
Tags: #Travel, #Europe, #France, #Essays & Travelogues
Night Walking
Grave Situations
The Janus City, or, Why the Year 1900 Lives On
Life’s a Café
Acknowledgments
About the Author
About the Photographer
Table of Contents
It’s the Water: The Seine
A Day in the Park: The Luxembourg Gardens
A Lively City of the Dead: Père-Lachaise Cemetery
François’s Follies: Building Afresh in a Museum City
Island in the Seine: Île Saint-Louis
Montsouris and Buttes-Chaumont: The Art of the Faux
Going Underground
Place des Vosges
Belly Ache: Les Halles Redux (Again)
Hit the Road Jacques
Coco Chanel
Les Bouquinistes
Midnight, Montmartre, and Modigliani
The Boat People of the Seine
Meeting Moreau
The Perils of Pompidou
Keepers of the Craft: Paris Artisans
Dear Dead Vincent van Gogh
Beaumarchais’s Marais
Madame X’s Seduction School
In the Spring
La Ville Lumière: Paris, City of Light
Of Cobbles, Bikes, and Bobos
Philosophy au Lait
Sidewalk Sundae: What Makes Paris Paris
Vie de Chien: A Dog’s Life
Why the Marais Changed Its Spots
Night Walking
Grave Situations
The Janus City, or, Why the Year 1900 Lives On
Life’s a Café