Footprints in Paris by Gillian Tindall - 9781845950897
Vintage Publishing
Footprints in ParisA Few Streets, A Few Lives\nAuthor(s): Gillian Tindall\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Vintage Publishing, United Kingdom\nImprint: Pimlico\nISBN-13: 9781845950897, 978-1845950897\nSynopsis\nGillian Tindall is well known for her ability to breathe a passionate life into the generations of those who have walked the earth before us. Here, using a handful of lives, she evokes the texture and atmosphere of a hidden Paris which has survived against all the odds of time and chance. Her study shows how Paris has drawn into its magnetic field people who have variously found there education or enlightenment, a refuge or a secret garden, even a different identity.\n\nFive individuals, all related in some way, reveal a web of human feeling and experiences across two centuries. There is the young doctor who walked from Edinburgh to Paris at the time of Napoleon's downfall; the self-made Victorian businessman who traded with the brash capital of the Second Empire; his reserved s.
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