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The Monuments of Paris: A Novel

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Featuring elegant prose and captivating characters, Violaine Huisman blends French history with personal narrative to reimagine her compelling life and ambitions through a fictional lens.

Named a Best Book of 2026 So Far by The New Yorker

“Violaine Huisman explores and contests the myths surrounding the great men of her family, using fiction where the official archives fall silent. The Monuments of Paris is a moving elegy for her accomplished, mercurial, outrageous father—and a beautiful act of disobedience.” —Ben Lerner, author of Transcription and The Topeka School

“In Violaine Huisman's captivating novel, the real monuments of Paris are not its buildings, but its people—a g...