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Paris Walks is a collection of vignettes on the history of allées and cul-de-sacs that can't be seen from the Champs-Elysées Macdonalds, and that alone makes it worth reading, whether or not you're a walker or even in Paris. With a strong bent towards art and literature, the 23 walks (these are not tours) transport the reader into decades past. Antoine de Gaudemar searches for André Breton's muse, Michael Palin pokes into the still very moveable feast that was Hemingway's inspiration and in a literary gem of an essay Jean Paul Dollé writes on the Latin Quarter.
Each walk is mapped and lists distance, walking time plus the cafés and shops which may extend an hour's canter into an afternoon. The glossary of further reading (Balzac, Céline, Hugo, Hemingway, Mitford and the Alice B Toklas Cookbook) may easily lead walkers off the paths laid out here. If you share writer Nicholas Lezard's dislike of literary walks, read his "Walking for Godot" first. With him, seven miles and four hours later, "wild with literary cadences and cheap white wine" Lezard leaves Beckett--and the walker--exhausted on the quayside allée des Cygnes. --Kathleen Buckley
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Twenty-three walks in the French capital, covering everything from the well trodden tourist trail to hidden corners well off the beaten track. Parisians and Francophiles make up the list of contributors, which includes the novelist Alan Furst, writer and broadcaster Michael Palin, and writer and journalist Maureen Freely.
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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful
Paris is a city that is made for walking, compact, fascinating and with loads of variety.
This book of Parisian walks is superb. Each walk is well documented and built around a fascinating theme.
I did the Hemingway's Paris walk. Discover where Ernie lived, where he met Fitzgerald, where he met with Picasso in his studio. Visit the bars, famous and not so famous, etc.
Here there is a walk for virtually every taste. There is the French literature walk, a revolution walk, a monarchy walk, a sacred places walk, a green walk, and so on.
I've wanted to do one of these walks for years. Why did I wait so long?
An excellent book if only for a read. There are plenty of ideas for walks.
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