A Year in Paris: Season by Season in the City of Light
Experience Paris through the seasons of its Revolutionary-era Republican Calendar. Celebrate the city’s literary and artistic past through the stories hidden in its neighborhoods, one poetic vignette at a time.
A NEW YORK TIMES "SUMMER READING" PICK!
From the incomparable John Baxter, award-winning author of the bestselling The Most Beautiful Walk in the World, a sumptuous and definitive portrait of Paris through the seasons, highlighting the unique tastes, sights, and changing personality of the city in spring, summer, fall, and winter.
When the common people of France revolted in 1789, one of the first ways they chose to correct the excesses of the monarchy and the church was to rename the months ...























