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Of Love and Paris: Historic, Romantic and Obsessive Liaisons

Of Love and Paris: Historic, Romantic and Obsessive Liaisons

Baxter, John

Paperback

FranceFrench History

Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 1940842727
ISBN13: 9781940842721
Publisher: Museyon
Published: Sep 18 2023
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.71 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.95
Language: English

The French may not have invented love but they perfected it, and the laboratory in which they did so was Paris. James Joyce called the city a lamp for lovers, hung in the wood of the world.

From the Middle Ages, Paris has drawn those who wish to experience the limits of love - intellectual, spiritual, carnal. In Of Love and Paris, John Baxter turns the spotlight on some of them, from the medieval troubadours who seduced court ladies with flowery verse to Man Ray, whose camera conferred immortality on his lover and model Kiki, and Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin, who turned their moans of sexual pleasure into music. The grandes horizontales of the belle epoque, accomplished technicians of eroticism who drew the rich and powerful of both sexes to Paris, had their modern incarnation in Gala, who left the bed she shared with poet Paul Éluard and painter Max Ernst to seduce the young Salvador Dalí.

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