Footprints in Paris: A Few Streets, A Few Lives
Author(s): Gillian Tindall
This unique and intensely involving book evokes the texture and atmosphere of a hidden Paris which has survived against all the odds of time and chance. Gillian Tindall is well known for her ability to breathe a passionate life into the generations of those who have walked this earth before us. Here, using a handful of lives and a specific location to exemplify 200 years of history, she focuses on a few of the oldest streets in Paris's Latin Quarter. Her study shows how Paris has drawn into its magnetic field people who have variously found there education or enlightenment, a refuge or a secret garden, even a different identity. Half a dozen individuals, all related in some way, reveal a web of human feeling and experiences across two centuries.
General Information
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- : Vintage
- : Pimlico
- : 01 March 2010
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Gillian Tindall
- : Paperback
- : 510
- : 368