Paris

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City of love. City of splendour. City of terror. City of dreams. Inspired by the haunting passionate story of the city of lights this epic novel weaves a gripping tale of four families across the centuries: from the lies that spawn the noble line of de Cygne to the revolutionary Le Sourds who seek their destruction; from the Blanchards whose bourgeois respectability offers scant protection against scandal to the hard-working Gascons & their soaring ambitions. Over hundreds of years these four families are bound by forbidden loves & marriages of convenience; dogged by vengeance & murderous secrets; torn apart by the irreconcilable differences of birth & faith & brought together by the tumultuous history of their city. Paris bursts to life in the intrigue corruption & glory of its people. Beloved author of Sarum London & New York Edward Rutherfurd illuminates Paris as only he can: capturing the romance & everyday drama of the men & women who in two thousand years transformed a humble trading post on the muddy banks of the Seine into the most celebrated city in the world.