Description
A sparkling account of the nineteenth-century rebuilding of Paris as the most beautiful city in the world - a position that it has never relinquished since.
About the Author
Rupert Christiansen is the opera critic and arts columnist for the Daily Telegraph. His books include Tales of the New Babylon: Paris in the Mid-19th Century and Romantic Affinities: Portraits From an Age 1780-1830. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1997.
Reviews
This really is an impressive book -- Sebastian Faulks, Sunday Telegraph
A wonderful book, amazingly vivid... But also a truly original work of scholarship' -- Theodore Zeldin
Brisk, vivid and unexpectedly stirring... No one writes as evocatively and entertainingly about Paris as [Christiansen] does' * Mail on Sunday *
Every page is a pleasure, every building, every gas lamp brought shimmering to life... Don't board the Eurostar without a copy' * The Times *
A sparkling yet scholarly new book * Country Life *
Vivid, dramatic and tragic... If you are heading for Paris this summer be sure to put City of Light in your bag' * Sunday Times *
[An] elegant and gorgeously illustrated new book * Sunday Telegraph *
A beautifully produced compact book, written and put together with the rare combination of expertise and love * Engineering and Technology Magazine *
The photographs included in Christiansen's beautifully illustrated book [...] make all this vivid, as does his lively telling of the story... Christiansen's account is readable and engaging. He doesn't judge his subject' * The Oldie. *
Christiansen's brisk and lively account contains excursions into the qualities of the Paris Opera House (not part of Haussmann's plan) and late nineteenth-century French political history, but remains both learned and amusing * Tablet. *
A beautiful little book... A fascinating history of the time with many photographs and paintings' * Four Shires Magazine *
It is attention to such detail that makes this witty, erudite historical essay on Paris's Haussmann years such an evocative read * The Spectator *
Book Information
ISBN 9781838932084
Author Rupert Christiansen
Format Paperback
Page Count 184
Imprint Apollo
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC