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Montparnasse: Paris's District of Memory and Desire

Montparnasse: Paris's District of Memory and Desire

Baxter, John

Paperback

Series: Great Parisian Neighborhoods, Book 3

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ISBN10: 006267904X
ISBN13: 9780062679048
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: Nov 7 2017
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.80 Width: 4.90 Depth: 7.00
Language: English

In the third portrait of his series Great Parisian Neighborhoods, award-winning raconteur John Baxter takes readers on a dazzling excursion of Montparnasse.

By the IACP Award-winning author of the national bestseller The Most Beautiful Walk in the World, MONTPARNASSE reveals the history and present delights of the iconic neighborhood that is best associated with the vibrant 1920-30s-era Paris--a romantic time and place evoked in Hemingway's memoir A Moveable Feast and Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer. From the first meeting of Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald to their friendship's bitter conclusion; from the courage of the anti-Nazi resistance to the clubs where German generals partied; from the attempted murder of Samuel Beckett to the rise of Josephine Baker to stardom; from the high life of the Coupole and the Cafe du Dôme to the bawdy music halls of rue de la Gaité; no Paris quarter has witnessed more tumultuous events than Montparnasse.

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