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Montmartre: Paris´s Village of Art and Sin
John Baxter
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Paperback. Series: Great Parisian Nieghborhoods. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 181 x 127 x 16. Weight in Grams: 294.
In the second portrait of his series Great Parisian Neighborhoods, award-winning raconteur John Baxter leads us on a whirlwind tour of Montmartre, the hill-top village that fired the greatest achievements of modern art while also provoking bloody revolution and the sexual misbehavior that made Paris synonymous with sin High on the northern edge of Paris, Montmartre has always attracted bohemians, political radicals, the searchers for artistic inspiration as well as those hungry for pleasure. In its winding, windmill-shadowed streets, which, only fifty years before, saw the anarchist rising of the Commune, Renoir, Picasso and van Gogh seized a similar ... Read more
In the second portrait of his series Great Parisian Neighborhoods, award-winning raconteur John Baxter leads us on a whirlwind tour of Montmartre, the hill-top village that fired the greatest achievements of modern art while also provoking bloody revolution and the sexual misbehavior that made Paris synonymous with sin High on the northern edge of Paris, Montmartre has always attracted bohemians, political radicals, the searchers for artistic inspiration as well as those hungry for pleasure. In its winding, windmill-shadowed streets, which, only fifty years before, saw the anarchist rising of the Commune, Renoir, Picasso and van Gogh seized a similar ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Great Parisian Nieghborhoods
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780062431899
SKU
V9780062431899
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About John Baxter
John Baxter has lived in Paris for more than twenty years. He is the author of four acclaimed memoirs about his life in France: The Perfect Meal: In Search of the Lost Tastes of France; The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A Pedestrian in Paris; Immoveable Feast: A Paris Christmas; and We'll Always Have Paris: Sex and Love in ... Read more
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