Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris

by Graham Robb

No one knows a city like the people who live there - so who better to relate the history of Paris than its inhabitants through the ages?

Taking us from 1750 to the new millennium, Graham Robb's Parisians is at once a book to read from cover to cover, to lose yourself in, to dip in and out of at leisure, and a book to return to again and again - rather like the city itself, in fact.

For this collection of true stories the City of Paris awarded Graham the Medal of the City of Paris.

'Quirky, amused and tres British' Julian Barnes, author of The Sense of an Ending.

• ISBN10: 0330452452
• ISBN13: 9780330452458
• Publish Date: 15 April 2011 (first published 2 April 2010)
• Publish Status: Active
• Out of Print: 4 March 2021
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Pan Macmillan
• Imprint: Picador
• Format: Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
• Pages: 512
• Language: English

Reviews

[MurderByDeath]

I've been beaten.  I can't do it; I can't finish this book.  The stories I've read so far are mostly really interesting, but the writing is so florid, so excessive, which such an effort to overly dramatise the narrative that I just can't dig my way through it any longer.   I'm bummed, because this could have been an incredibly fascinating collection if the writer hadn't gotten in the way of the stories themselves.  Perhaps someday I'll give it another go, but for now, color me defeated.