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This is the Paris you never understood. From the Revolution to the present, Graham Robb has distilled a series of amazing true narratives, all stranger than fiction. A artillery lieutenant, strolling through the Palais-Royal, observes disapprovingly the courtesans plying their trade. A specific woman catches his eye; mother nature took its course. Later that nights, Napoleon Bonaparte writes a meticulous accounts of his first intimate face. An aristocratic female, fleeing the Louvre, requires a wrong move and manages to lose her way in the nameless pavements of the Left Standard bank. For want of an map-there were no reliable ones at the time-Marie-Antoinette will go directly to the guillotine. Baudelaire, Baron Haussmann, the real-life Mimi of La Bohème, Proust, Charles de Gaulle (who's suspected of experiencing faked an assassination look at on himself in Notre Dame)-these and so many more make up Robb's ensemble of characters. The effect is a resonant, intimate history with the energy of an great novel.
