He discovers he's become an unwitting pawn in a chilling conspiracy that could destroy the beautiful city he loves - a city that has now become a dark and dangerous maze with treacherous turns and too many dead ends. The essay on Le Pre Lachaise cemetery is exquisite. They all want Jay for themselves, and not all of them want him alive. A series of essays by David Downie about Paris, the city and its hidden treasures and not so hidden ones. Only by recovering the entire series of photographic fakes can he hope to avoid prosecution.īut suddenly, other parties have become interested in his work: former Cold War operatives and Company spooks, French intelligence agents and cutthroat murderers with shady, unrevealed allegiances. When an imitation daguerreotype he created for fun falls into the wrong hands, Jay finds himself a target, accused of fraud. Abounding in secluded, atmospheric parks, artists studios, cafes, restaurants and streets little changed since the 1800s, Paris exudes romance. The son of a recently deceased CIA agent, photographer and American expatriate Jason Anthony Grant knows the dark side of the City of Light all too well. A unique combination of memoir, history, and travelogue, this is author David Downies irreverent quest to uncover why Paris is the worlds most romantic cityand has been for over 150 years. It first bloomed in France in the garden of Jean-Jacques Rousseau in the 1780s. There is a Paris that no tourist ever sees - a shadowy secret world of intrigue, betrayal, and murder. 4 quotes from David Downie: Depending on which flavor of academic scholarship you prefer, that age had its roots in the Renaissance or Mannerist periods in Germany, England, and Italy. An American photographer in Paris is unwittingly drawn into a nightmarish terror plot when one of his daguerreotypes puts both his life and his adopted city in gravest peril… Curiosity and the legs of a cross-country runner propelled him daily from an unheated, seventh. an enchanting fluffy read with lots of hints and tips for lovers of Paris and French food. San Francisco Chronicle Book Review Swapping his native San Francisco for the City of Light, travel writer David Downie arrived in Paris in 1986 on a one-way ticket, his head full of romantic notions. Bravo for a comprehensive look at eating and dining in Paris David Lebovitz, author of My Paris Kitchen and The Sweet Life in Paris A delightful treat for your favorite Francophile foodie. a voyage into ‘the bends and recesses, the jagged edges, the secret interiors’. Beautifully written and refreshingly original makes us see Paris in a different light. This is Dictionnaire Historique des Rues de Paris by Jacques Hillairet. Swapping his native San Francisco for the City of Light. Your final choice fits in well with that and your love of walking. Listen to the Paris, Paris audiobook by Diane Johnson & David Downie, narrated by Max Winter. “Gives fresh poetic insight into the city. The Belly of Paris is a wonderful book of imaginary history if you are at all interested in the creation of modern Paris, meaning the city born in the mid-19th century. “ quirky, personal, independent view of the city, its history and its people” -Mavis Gallant David Downie's writing is light, irreverent, and witty, illuminating many of the mysteries of Paris for tourists. I savored it slowly, sinking into each chapter like a warm, comfortable bed. “I loved his collection of essays and anyone who’s visited Paris in the past, or plans to visit in the future, will be equally charmed as well.” -David Lebovitz, author of The Sweet Life in Paris Paris, Paris Journey into the City of Light, delivers exactly what I was seeking. An irreverent, witty romp featuring thirty-one short prose sketches of people, places and daily life, Paris, Journey into the City of Light ranges from the glamorous to the least-known corners and characters of the world’s favorite city. Ten books and a quarter-century later, he still spends several hours every day rambling through Paris, and writing about the city he loves. Curiosity and the legs of a cross-country runner propelled him daily from an unheated, seventh-floor walk-up garret near the Champs-Elysées to the old Montmartre haunts of the doomed painter Modigliani, the tombs of Père-Lachaise cemetery, the luxuriant alleys of the Luxembourg Gardens and the aristocratic Île Saint-Louis midstream in the Seine.ĭownie wound up living in the chic Marais district, married to the Paris-born American photographer Alison Harris, an equally incurable walker and chronicler. Swapping his native San Francisco for the City of Light, travel writer David Downie arrived in Paris in 1986 on a one-way ticket, his head full of romantic notions. makes us see in a different light.”- San Francisco Chronicle Book Review For centuries, pilgrims have made their way along the El. He is the author of Paris, Paris: Journey into the City of Light. “Beautifully written and refreshingly original. Food and travel writer David Downie has called Paris home since 1986.
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