Paris

Fülszöveg

A PICTURE BOOK TO REMEMBER HER BY
Over 120 Colour Photographs
Paris, the 'City of Light' is a city of almost unparalleled beauty, a city of 2,000 years of rich and turbulent history which cries out from every baulevard, monument and arch. Few other capitals provide so fascinating a blend of ancient and modern for in Paris it is possible to glance upwards from cobbled, medieval streets where houses stand, unaltered since the 12th century to a skyline in which an obelisk of ancient Egypt vies with the Eiffel Tower or with the ultra-modern sky-scraper of Montparnasse. Yet the unique quality of Paris does not lie solely in its buildings. This lovely city has an atmosphere and a mystique that is entirely its own, a mystique that has attracted writers, sculptors, musicians, painters and intellectuals throughout the ages. Miraculously they are still to be found in the boulevard cafés, sipping Pernod and studying the non-stop drama of the Paris streets enacted by a colourful and... Tovább

Fülszöveg

A PICTURE BOOK TO REMEMBER HER BY
Over 120 Colour Photographs
Paris, the 'City of Light' is a city of almost unparalleled beauty, a city of 2,000 years of rich and turbulent history which cries out from every baulevard, monument and arch. Few other capitals provide so fascinating a blend of ancient and modern for in Paris it is possible to glance upwards from cobbled, medieval streets where houses stand, unaltered since the 12th century to a skyline in which an obelisk of ancient Egypt vies with the Eiffel Tower or with the ultra-modern sky-scraper of Montparnasse. Yet the unique quality of Paris does not lie solely in its buildings. This lovely city has an atmosphere and a mystique that is entirely its own, a mystique that has attracted writers, sculptors, musicians, painters and intellectuals throughout the ages. Miraculously they are still to be found in the boulevard cafés, sipping Pernod and studying the non-stop drama of the Paris streets enacted by a colourful and distinctive cast of businessmen and bohemians, students and bourgeois, mingling casually with the world's most elegant women.
The appeal of this most romantic of cities is almost indefinable but this book with its superb colour photographs has captured unforgettably the quality of Paris, the intellectual and cultural centre, the focal point of fashion, the political and administrative hub of France, and the picturesque haunt of pleasure-seekers and lovers. Vissza