description: The Paris that comes alive in this book is the city that writers from Rabelais to Hemingway have observed and clebrated for the past 500 years. By interweaving extracts from their work with his own informative commentary Ian Littlewood offers the reader, district by district, a wonderfully evocative glimpse of the streets, squares and buildings of Paris. The spirit of Proust still haunts the Faubourg Saint-Germain; the old hotels of the Marais recall the elegant world of Mme de Sevigne. In the arcades of the Palais-Royal there are lingering echoes of the Paris admired by eighteenth and nineteenth century travellers and behind the Pantheon the narrow streets described by George Orwell still survive.
language: English
title: A Literary Companion to Paris
titlecomplete: A Literary Companion to Paris (Penguin travel guides)
ratings_count: 17
publisher: Penguin