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Authors: David Downie

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Night Walking
Grave Situations
The Janus City, or, Why the Year 1900 Lives On
Life’s a Café
Acknowledgments
About the Author
About the Photographer

Table of Contents

Cover

Other Books by This Author

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Photographs

Foreword

By Way of Introduction

Paris Places

It’s the Water: The Seine
A Day in the Park: The Luxembourg Gardens
A Lively City of the Dead: Père-Lachaise Cemetery
François’s Follies: Building Afresh in a Museum City
Island in the Seine: Île Saint-Louis
Montsouris and Buttes-Chaumont: The Art of the Faux
Going Underground
Place des Vosges
Belly Ache: Les Halles Redux (Again)
Hit the Road Jacques

Paris People

Coco Chanel
Les Bouquinistes
Midnight, Montmartre, and Modigliani
The Boat People of the Seine
Meeting Moreau
The Perils of Pompidou
Keepers of the Craft: Paris Artisans
Dear Dead Vincent van Gogh
Beaumarchais’s Marais
Madame X’s Seduction School

Paris Phenomena

In the Spring
La Ville Lumière: Paris, City of Light
Of Cobbles, Bikes, and Bobos
Philosophy au Lait
Sidewalk Sundae: What Makes Paris Paris
Vie de Chien: A Dog’s Life
Why the Marais Changed Its Spots
Night Walking
Grave Situations
The Janus City, or, Why the Year 1900 Lives On
Life’s a Café

Acknowledgments

About the Author

About the Photographer

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