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Into a Paris Quartier: Reine Margot's Chapel and Other Haunts of St.-Germain (National Geographic Directions)
Diane Johnson
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Modern St.-Germain is lively and prosperous, and fifty years ago its heady mix of jazz and existentialism defined urbane cool, but Johnson takes a longer view. “Beside the shades of Jean-Paul Sartre and Edith Piaf,” she writes, “there is another crowd of resident ghosts… misty figures in plumed hats whose fortunes and passions were enacted among these beautiful, imposing buildings.” From her kitchen window, she looks out on a chapel begun by Reine Margot, wife of Henri IV; nearby streets are haunted by the shades of two sinister cardinals, Mazarin and Richelieu, as well as four famed queens and at ... Read more
Modern St.-Germain is lively and prosperous, and fifty years ago its heady mix of jazz and existentialism defined urbane cool, but Johnson takes a longer view. “Beside the shades of Jean-Paul Sartre and Edith Piaf,” she writes, “there is another crowd of resident ghosts… misty figures in plumed hats whose fortunes and passions were enacted among these beautiful, imposing buildings.” From her kitchen window, she looks out on a chapel begun by Reine Margot, wife of Henri IV; nearby streets are haunted by the shades of two sinister cardinals, Mazarin and Richelieu, as well as four famed queens and at ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
National Geographic
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Washington, United States
ISBN
9780792262084
SKU
KRF0026788
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Ref
99-1
About Diane Johnson
Diane Johnson is a travel writer, biographer, essayist and-most notably-a novelist and three-time National Book Award Finalist, most recently for Le Divorce, a national bestseller which became a major motion picture. Her next novel, Le Mariage (2000) also made bestseller lists from the Boston Globe to the San Francisco Chronicle, and was a New York Times Book Review "Notable Book" ... Read more
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