Free to Get Paris, Paris: Journey into the City of Light
by David Downie
Overview :
??Beautifully written and refreshingly original? makes us see [Paris] in a different light.? -- San Francisco Chronicle Book Review?Swapping his native San Francisco for the City of Light, travel writer David Downie arrived in Paris in 1986 on a one-way ticket, his head full of romantic notions. Curiosity and the legs of a cross-country runner propelled him daily from an unheated, seventh-floor walk-up garret near the Champs-Elys?es to the old Montmartre haunts of the doomed painter Modigliani, the tombs of P?re-Lachaise cemetery, the luxuriant alleys of the Luxembourg Gardens and the aristocratic ?le Saint-Louis midstream in the Seine.Downie wound up living in the chic Marais district, married to the Paris-born American photographer Alison Harris, an equally incurable walker and chronicler. Ten books and a quarter-century later, he still spends several hours every day rambling through Paris, and writing about the city he loves. ?An irreverent, witty romp featuring thirty-one short
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