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A Year in Paris : Season by Season in the City of Light

Baxter, John, 1939- author

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A sumptuous and definitive portrait of Paris through the seasons, highlighting the unique tastes, sights, and changing personality of the city in spring, summer, fall, and winter. When the common people of France revolted in 1789, one of the first ways they chose to correct the excesses of the monarchy and the church was to rename the months of the year. Selected by poet and playwright Philippe-Francois-Nazaire Fabre, these new names reflected what took place at that season in the natural world; Fructidor was the month of fruit, Floréal that of flowers, while the winter wind (vent) dominated Ventôse. Though the names didn't stick, these seasonal rhythms of the year continue to define Parisians, as well as travelers to the city. Devoting a section of the book to each of Fabre's months, Baxter draws upon Paris's literary, cultural and artistic past to paint an affecting, unforgettable portrait of the city. Touching upon the various ghosts of Paris past, from Hemingway and Zelda Fitzgerald, to Claude Debussy to MFK Fisher to Francois Mitterrand, Baxter evokes the rhythms of the seasons in the City of Light, and the sense of wonder they can arouse for all who visit and live there.

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Subject: Baxter, John, 1939- Travel France Paris. / Baxter, John, 1939- / Seasons France Paris. / Seasons. / Seasons. Fiction. / Manners and customs. / Travel. / Paris (France) Social life and customs. / Paris (France) Description and travel. / France Paris.
• ISBN: 9780062846884, 0062846884

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
DC715.B3173 2019	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE