Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris by Graham Robb

Author:Graham Robb [Robb, Graham]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Biography, History, Travel, Non-Fiction, Writing
ISBN: 9780393067248
Amazon: 0393339734
Goodreads: 7346882
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2010-04-26T00:00:00+00:00

Chacun soit content de ses biens,

Qui n’a souffisance il n’a riens…*

It was there, one might imagine, that the man with the camera pondered the scraps of information he had been able to obtain. What follows is not necessarily a complete list of these gleanings, but it gives a fair idea of his line of enquiry:

–Some undeveloped rolls of film, including photographs of the west front of Notre-Dame.

–A copy of a book on Gothic architecture called Le Mystère des Cathédrales, published in 1925, and a modern reprint of the Livre des figures hiéroglyphiques, misattributed to Nicolas Flamel.

–An illustrated Pilgrims’ Guide to Notre-Dame, with a fold-out map of the cathedral.

–A notebook containing some addresses, including those of an institution called the Sacré-Cœur (59, Rue Rochechouart), the offices of the Paris Gas Company (28, Place Saint-Georges) and various academic and pharmaceutical laboratories on both banks of the Seine.

–Baedeker’s guide to south-western France, ‘from the Loire to the Spanish frontier’.

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