Paris Bookstore-Books About Paris

If Helen of Troy was the face that launched 1,000 ships then Paris is the city that launched tens of thousands of books.

Long before I first went to Paris I immersed myself in reading about her. Many of my favorites focus on Les Années Folles-the 1920’s –stamped by writers like Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Joyce; painters and sculptors like Picasso, Brancussi, Chagall & Soutine, the Lesbian league including Sylvia Beach, Nathalie Barney, Janet Flanner, Djuna Barnes and photographers Man Ray, Gisele Freund and Berenice Abbot and African-American entertainers Bricktop and Josephine Baker who found refuge from racism.

The following is a personally edited selection of classic books from my library that have been essential to my understanding of Paris and many contemporary titles that grasp the essence of France.

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French History
	Writers in Paris Unique in scope and approach WRITERS IN PARIS explores the alleyways and haunts frequented by the world’s most storied writers.
	Eiffel's Tower Mocked at its birth the Eiffel Tower has been the landmark most symbolic of France throughout the world for 120 years. In the tradition of David McCullough historian Jill Jonnes captures Eiffel’s engineering genius that made the tower possible while surrounding him with a cast of characters that includes Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley and Thomas Alva Edison.
	Louis Begley draws parallels between U.S. treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and French treatment of Dreyfus. This is an important book.
click book to buy	For the Soul of France Read our new interview with the author.
click book to buy	The 7 Ages of Paris The highly respected British historian and Francophile offers a digestible survey of French history that is concise, witty and valuable.
click book to buy	Paris, The Secret History Hussey offers a look at the real Paris and not the tourist’s Paris replete with stories of blackguards and rapscallions.
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