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Paris and Elsewhere  
Author: Richard Cobb
ISBN: 1590170822
Format: Handover
Publish Date: June, 2005
 
     
     
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Book Description
Perhaps no one loves France as much as the English, and Richard Cobb, the incomparable Oxford historian, was a passionate admirer of the country. He was a connoisseur of the dive and the flophouse, as well as a familiar of the quays of Paris and the docks of Le Havre and Marseilles. Paris and Elsewhere, collecting memoirs and portraits of favorite haunts, shows us a France unglimpsed by tourists.




Paris and Elsewhere

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Richard Cobb, Professor of Modern History at Oxford and one of the great historians of the French Revolution, was a passionate Francophile from his first visit to France as a teenager. But the France Cobb loved was a very different place from the country one usually hears about. Allergic to the grand pretensions of the nation's politicians and technocrats, Cobb cherished everything that was offhand, improvisatory, hedonistic, and street-smart about French life. He was a connoisseur of the big city market and the crooked backstreet, of divy bars and cheap hotels, familiar with the quays of Paris and the docks of Le Havre and Marseille. He was also a brilliant reader of life and literature and a remarkable stylist in his own right. Paris and Elsewhere gathers portraits from memory, pictures of favorite haunts, and appreciations of admired artists such as Simenon and Queneau, Rene Clair and Brassai, together with Cobb's famous polemic "The Assassination of Paris," revealing a France unglimpsed by tourists.

     



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