Author: Denise Robins
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1444752669
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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Nineteen year old Annabel Graye is suddenly left penniless in Paris when financial disaster overtakes her rich father. Fortunately, she is offered a job at the world famous couturier, Maison Christophe, and there her beauty and elegance make her easily the top mannequin. Paris is captivated by her and none more madly than Christophe himself. However, he is engaged to marry the wealthy influential Michèle Luchacre and she is determined to hold on to him. Seeing that Annabel is taking her place in his heart, Michèle, with the assistance of gypsy model Guida, hatches a seemingly infallible plot to discredit Annabel – and the English girl falls right into the trap. Denise Robins is at her best in this delightful tale of romance and intrigue in the heart of Paris.
Author: Marc Petitjean
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
ISBN: 1590519906
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 209
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This intimate account offers a new, unexpected understanding of the artist’s work and of the vibrant 1930s surrealist scene. In 1938, just as she was leaving Mexico for her first solo exhibition in New York, Frida Kahlo was devastated to learn from her husband, Diego Rivera, that he intended to divorce her. This latest blow followed a long series of betrayals, most painful of all his affair with her beloved younger sister, Cristina, in 1934. In early 1939, anxious and adrift, Kahlo traveled from the United States to France—her only trip to Europe, and the beginning of a unique period of her life when she was enjoying success on her own. Now, for the first time, this previously overlooked part of her story is brought to light in exquisite detail. Marc Petitjean takes the reader to Paris, where Kahlo spends her days alongside luminaries such as Pablo Picasso, André Breton, Dora Maar, and Marcel Duchamp. Using Kahlo’s whirlwind romance with the author’s father, Michel Petitjean, as a jumping-off point, The Heart: Frida Kahlo in Paris provides a striking portrait of the artist and an inside look at the history of one of her most powerful, enigmatic paintings.
Author: Raymond Jonas
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520924010
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 327
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In a richly layered and beautifully illustrated narrative, Raymond Jonas tells the fascinating and surprisingly little-known story of the Sacré-Coeur, or Sacred Heart. The highest point in Paris and a celebrated tourist destination, the white-domed basilica of Sacré-Coeur on Montmartre is a key monument both to French Catholicism and to French national identity. Jonas masterfully reconstructs the history of the devotion responsible for the basilica, beginning with the apparition of the Sacred Heart to Marguerite Marie Alacoque in the seventeenth century, through the French Revolution and its aftermath, to the construction of the monumental church that has loomed over Paris since the end of the nineteenth century. Jonas focuses on key moments in the development of the cult: the founding apparition, its invocation during the plague of Marseilles, its adaptation as a royalist symbol during the French Revolution, and its elevation to a central position in Catholic devotional and political life in the crisis surrounding the Franco-Prussian War. He draws on a wealth of archival sources to produce a learned yet accessible narrative that encompasses a remarkable sweep of French politics, history, architecture, and art.
Author: Denise Robins
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 1444752669
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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Nineteen year old Annabel Graye is suddenly left penniless in Paris when financial disaster overtakes her rich father. Fortunately, she is offered a job at the world famous couturier, Maison Christophe, and there her beauty and elegance make her easily the top mannequin. Paris is captivated by her and none more madly than Christophe himself. However, he is engaged to marry the wealthy influential Michèle Luchacre and she is determined to hold on to him. Seeing that Annabel is taking her place in his heart, Michèle, with the assistance of gypsy model Guida, hatches a seemingly infallible plot to discredit Annabel – and the English girl falls right into the trap. Denise Robins is at her best in this delightful tale of romance and intrigue in the heart of Paris.
Author: Lindsey Kelk
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062120433
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 221
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”I’ll read anything she writes” — Emily Henry, #1 New York Times bestselling author While blogger Angela Clark explores the most romantic city in the world, she must keep her relationship, and her career, from falling apart—in this sequel to Lindsey Kelk’s I Heart New York Angela Clark is in the City of Love—but her own love life is heading for trouble. I Heart New York left Angela living the dream in fabulous New York City—her days filled with blogging for The Look magazine, texting her best friend Jenny (who’s now a stylist in Hollywood), and planning dates with her indie rocker boyfriend Alex—who seems very keen on moving in together. When Alex suggests a trip to Paris just as Angela is offered a chance to write for upscale fashion magazine Belle—the timing couldn’t be better. What’s more exciting than writing an article on the hippest spots in the romantic capital of the world? Meandering along charming streets, perusing Paris’s hot destinations—all in the name of research—Angela decides she could get used to the joie de vivre of Paris. But there’s something awry. Angela soon realizes that the road blocks she keeps encountering—lost luggage, bogus research notes, broken phone—can’t be a coincidence. Someone is conspiring to sabotage her big break. And when she spots Alex having a tête-à-tête with his ex in a Paris bar, Angela’s dreams of Parisian passion start crashing down around her. With London and her old life only a train journey away—now is the time to decide if she should stay and face the music or return to the safety of home.
Author: Bob Jackson-Paris
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 0446566039
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Former Mr. Universe Bob Paris and topflight model Rod Jackson tell how their marriage catapulted them from physique icons to international spokesmen for gay rights.
Author: Edward Chisholm
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1639362843
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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An evocative portrait of the underbelly of contemporary Paris as seen through the eyes of a young waiter scraping out a living in the City of Light. A waiter's job is to deceive you. They want you to believe in a luxurious calm because on the other side of that door . . . is hell. Edward Chisholm's spellbinding memoir of his time as a Parisian waiter takes you beneath the surface of one of the most iconic cities in the world—and right into its glorious underbelly. He inhabits a world of inhuman hours, snatched sleep and dive bars; scraping by on coffee, bread and cigarettes, often under sadistic managers, with a wage so low you're fighting your colleagues for tips. Your colleagues—including thieves, narcissists, ex-soldiers, immigrants, wannabe actors, and drug dealers—are the closest thing to family that you've got. It's physically demanding, frequently humiliating and incredibly competitive. But it doesn't matter because you're in Paris, the center of the universe, and there's nowhere else you'd rather be in the world.
Author: Cara Black
Publisher: Soho Crime
ISBN: 1641290412
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 361
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Kate Rees, a young American markswoman, has been recruited by British intelligence to drop into Paris with a dangerous assignment: assassinate the Fuhrer. Wrecked by grief after a bombing killed her husband and daughter, she is armed with a rifle and a fierce resolve. But she has no formal spy training. Thrust into the red-hot centre of the war, a country girl from rural Oregon finds herself holding the fate of the world in her hands. When Kate misses her mark and the plan unravels, Kate is on the run for her life - all the time wrestling with the suspicion that the whole operation was a set-up.
Author: Elaine Sciolino
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393242382
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 315
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A New York Times Bestseller "Sciolino’s sharply observed account serves as a testament to…Paris—the city of light, of literature, of life itself." —The New Yorker Elaine Sciolino, the former Paris Bureau Chief of the New York Times, invites us on a tour of her favorite Parisian street, offering an homage to street life and the pleasures of Parisian living. "I can never be sad on the rue des Martyrs," Sciolino explains, as she celebrates the neighborhood’s rich history and vibrant lives. While many cities suffer from the leveling effects of globalization, the rue des Martyrs maintains its distinct allure. On this street, the patron saint of France was beheaded and the Jesuits took their first vows. It was here that Edgar Degas and Pierre-Auguste Renoir painted circus acrobats, Emile Zola situated a lesbian dinner club in his novel Nana, and François Truffaut filmed scenes from The 400 Blows. Sciolino reveals the charms and idiosyncrasies of this street and its longtime residents—the Tunisian greengrocer, the husband-and-wife cheesemongers, the showman who’s been running a transvestite cabaret for more than half a century, the owner of a 100-year-old bookstore, the woman who repairs eighteenth-century mercury barometers—bringing Paris alive in all of its unique majesty. The Only Street in Paris will make readers hungry for Paris, for cheese and wine, and for the kind of street life that is all too quickly disappearing.
Author: Elaine Sciolino
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393609367
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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An American Library in Paris "Coups de Coeur" Selection A Los Angeles Times Bestseller "Elaine Sciolino is a graceful, companionable writer.… [She] has laid one more beautiful and amusing wreath on the altar of the City of Light.” —Edmund White, New York Times Blending memoir, travelogue, and history, The Seine is a love letter to Paris and the river that determined its destiny. Master storyteller and longtime New York Times foreign correspondent Elaine Sciolino explores the Seine through its lively characters—a bargewoman, a riverbank bookseller, a houseboat dweller, a famous cinematographer—and follows it from the remote plateaus of Burgundy through Paris and to the sea. The Seine is a vivid, enchanting portrait of the world’s most irresistible river.
