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A unique mixture of memoir, record, and travelogue, this is author David Downie's irreverent search to discover why Paris is the world's most passionate city - and has been for over 150 years. Abounding in private, atmospheric parks, artists' studios, cafes, restaurants, and roads little changed because the 1800s, Paris exudes romance. The art and structures, the cityscape, riverbanks, and the unequalled quality of daily life are area of the equation. However the city's allure derives evenly from hidden sources: querulous inhabitants, a bizarre culture of heroic negativity, and a rich historical past providing enigmas, pleasures, and troubles. Rarely do visitors believe the glamor and stylish and the carefree atmosphere of the City of Light grew from and still feed off the dark fountainheads of riot, rebellion, mayhem, and melancholy - and the subversive books, art and music of the Intimate Age. Weaving together his own with the lives and loves of Victor Hugo, Georges Fine sand, Charles Baudelaire, Balzac, Nadar, and other great Romantics, Downie delights in the city's secular passionate pilgrimage sites requesting , Why Paris, not Venice or Rome - the faucet root of "romance" - or Berlin, Vienna, and London - where in fact the first Romantics built castles-in-the-air and sang odes to nightingales? Pay attention to A Enthusiasm for Paris: Romanticism and Relationship in the City of Light and discover.
