Paris in the Step by Step series by Insight Guides focuses on providing tailor made walks & tours around the city. The guide features twenty route recommendations that link up better known sights & take you off of the more beaten track; they are written by local experts who have personally selected places to eat & drink en-route & who offer insider tips on culture, shopping & nightlife. The guide has an array of colour photographs which help bring to life the background & descriptive information provided for destinations & attractions. An overview chapter opens the guide & reviews geography, customs & culture, history, food & drink, shopping, culture & entertainment. Next feature the selected itineraries for walks and/or tours, each of which have a good amount of accompanying information & come with a simple route plan. A user friendly alphabetical directory lists practical information to do with day to day basics & listings of h&-picked hotels & restaurants are provided to suit different budgets & tastes. The publisher ...

In the eighteenth century, Laurence Sterne explores the temptations of the French capital in a teasing study of foreign mores & Restif de la Bretonne provides an eye-witness account of the Revolution. From the 1800s, Hugo, Balzac, Flaubert, & Zola offer fascinating portraits of the city`s teeming humanity; the Goncourt brothers chronicle the explosion of artistic talent; Huysmans describes an evening at the Folies Bergere. Colette chronicles the pitfalls for a young girl in the decadent city of the early twentieth century; F. Scott Fitzgerald revels in the city`s glamour; Jean Rhys` lost heroines wander from cafe to cafe; James Baldwin celebrates its sexual freedoms; & Raymond Queneau gleefully reinvents the language of the street. In our time, Michel Tournier`s North African immigrant walks a camel along the boulevards, while Nobel Laureate Patrick Modiano brilliantly maps the city`s many arrondissements. The alluring power of Paris has never dimmed & it is richly captured in all its facets in these compelling & seductive tales. ...

Paris Street Atlas from Blay-Foldex in a handy-size pocket version, spiral bound & printed & waterproor & tear-resistant plastic paper. The city is presented by arrondisements, with lists of useful addresses, diagrams for metro/RER & bus routes, etc. Mapping is arranged by arrondissements, the twenty administrative districts of Paris. Scales vary according to the size of the arrondisement, with the smaller ones shown on two adjoining pages & the larger ones spread across four. A common feature is a grid in squares of 550m to indicate the distances. The maps show one way, no entry & pedestrianized streets, car parks, metro & RER stations, pick-up points for the V ...

Paris Street Atlas from Blay-Foldex in a handy-size pocket version with a PVC cover, presenting the city by arrondisements. With lists of useful addresses, diagrams for metro/RER & bus routes, etc. Mapping is arranged by arrondissements, the twenty administrative districts of Paris. Scales vary according to the size of the arrondisement, with the smaller ones shown on two adjoining pages & the larger ones spread across four. A common feature is a grid in squares of 500m to indicate the distances. The maps show one way, no entry & pedestrianized streets, car parks, metro & RER stations, pick-up points for the V ...

Michelin street plan of Paris with cartography which remains a benchmark for accurate presentation of the city. In this pocket-size atlas version maps are arranged by arrondissements. The reduced scale of 1:12, 500 means that names of many smaller streets or passages are very small size print. The plan is ideal for all those who wish to go beyond the usual tourist routes & explore Parisian nooks & crannies or just need an accurate & detailed plan of the whole city. It accurately reflects the actual street layout & shows all the minor streets, little alleys, small squares, covered passages, etc. Steep streets with steps are marked. Where necessary, the plan indicates various entrances to metro and/or RER stations, & also shows stops of the Vogu ...

Paris on a double-sided map from Blay-Foldex combining a street plan of the city with, on the reverse, a map showing its outer suburbs (banlieue), plus diagrams of the metro/RER/tram networks, a diagram & a list of bus lines, etc. On one side is a street plan of the capital within the Boulevard P ...

Paris Street Tales is the third volume of a trilogy of translated stories set in Paris. The previous two are Paris Tales, in which each story is associated with one of the twenty arrondissements, & Paris Metro Tales, in which the twenty-two stories are related to a trip round the Paris Metro. This new volume contains eighteen newly translated stories related to particular streets in Paris, & one newly written tale of the city. The stories range from the nineteenth century to the present day, & include tales by well-known writers such as Colette, Maupassant, Didier Daeninckx, & Simenon, & less familiar names such as Francis Carco, Aurelie Filipetti, & Arnaud Baignot. They present a vivid picture of Paris streets in a variety of literary styles & tones. Simenon`s Maigret is called upon to solve a mystery on the Boulevard Beaumarchais; a flaneur learns some French history through second-hand objects retrieved from the Seine; a nineteenth-century affair in the Rue de Miromesnil goes badly wrong; a body is discovered on the steps of the smallest street in Paris. Through these stories we see how the city has changed over the last two centuries & what has survived. All the tales in the book are translated apart from the last, a new story by David Constantine, based on the last days of the poet Gerard de Nerval. ...

Stylist Elodie Rambaud takes us down tiny side streets & pushes open the doors of exquisite stores to reveal the hidden gems of one of the world`s most enchanting cities
- Paris. Elodie`s must-have guide features Paris`s hottest neighbourhood venues, from restaurants, cafes & patisseries to bars, shops & hotels with 235 addresses & maps to help readers locate the secret places the author knows so well. Also included are up-close & personal interviews with those who work at the heart of the city
- the assemblers of style, entrepreneurs, shop & cafe owners
- as they reveal their own favourite local haunts. With a complete section dedicated to Les Puces de Saint-Ouen, Paris Style Guide is the perfect city companion for visitors & locals alike.


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Paris Tales is a highly evocative collection of stories by well known French & Francophone writers, translated by Helen Constantine. The twenty-two stories provide a captivating glimpse into Parisian life from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day
- evolving through the eyes of Maupassant, Nerval, Balzac & Zola, to the new generation of authors such as Gavalda or Beigbeder. This book takes us on an atmospheric tour of the districts of Paris, outlining the changing nature of the city & its inhabitants. From the shout of demonstrators on the Boul` Mich to the tranquility of Parc Monceau, from the artists` haunt of Montmartre to the glamorous cafés of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, we meet a vibrant characters gallery including a provincial lawyer’s wife seeking excitement, a runway schoolboy sleeping rough, a lottery-winning policeman... Illustrated with maps & wonderful photographs, the book will charm anyone who wishes to uncover the true heart of this many-faceted city.
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Following the huge success of Ilex`s 1000 Dot-to-Dot series, we bring you the longest & most satisfying dot-to-dot puzzle ever! This beautifully designed hardback book concertinas into a stunning frieze of no fewer than 3000 dots, providing several satisfying hours of mindful dot-joining fun. The perfect souvenir of your trip to Paris, this fabulous original illustration features its most famous buildings & landmarks, including the Louvre, the Arc de Triomphe & the Eiffel Tower. To enable you to enjoy your handiwork to the full, the ends of the design are perforated: you can easily remove your completed masterpiece, & display it on your wall. ...