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Drawing on testimony from a great range of witnesses - from Balzac and Hugo to assorted boulevardiers, rabble-rousers, and tramps - Sante, whose thorough research is matched only by the vividness of his narration, takes the listener on a whirlwind tour.
The Other Paris scuttles through the knotted streets of pre-Haussmann Paris; through the improvised accommodations of the original bohemians; through the massive garbage dump at Montfaucon, active until 1849, in which "at any given time the carcasses of 12,000 horses...were left to rot".
A wildly lively survey of labor conditions, prostitution, drinking, crime, and popular entertainment, of the reporters, réaliste singers, pamphleteers, and poets who chronicled their evolution, The Other Paris is an audiobook meant to upend the story of the French capital, to reclaim the city from the bon vivants and the speculators, and to hold a light to the works and days of the forgotten poor.
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- De: John Baxter
- Narrado por: Graham Halstead
- Duración: 4 h y 11 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 15
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For many years, Saint-Germain-des-Pres has been a stronghold of sans culottes, a refuge to artists, a paradise for bohemians. It's where Marat printed L'Ami du Peuple and Thomas Paine wrote The Rights of Man. Napoleon, Hemingway, and Sartre have all called it home. Descartes is buried there. Now best-selling author and Paris expert John Baxter takes listeners on a narrative tour of Saint-Germain-des-Pres, which is also where Baxter makes his home.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Old Paris...fascinating!
- De Marie en 03-22-25
De: John Baxter
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Nineteen Reservoirs
- On Their Creation and the Promise of Water for New York City
- De: Lucy Sante
- Narrado por: Lucy Sante
- Duración: 2 h y 47 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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From 1907 to 1967, a network of reservoirs and aqueducts was built across more than one million acres in upstate New York, including Greene, Delaware, Sullivan, and Ulster Counties. This feat of engineering served to meet New York City's ever-increasing need for water, sustaining its inhabitants and cementing it as a center of industry. West of the Hudson, it meant that twenty-six villages, with their farms, forest lands, orchards, and quarries, were bought for a fraction of their value, demolished, and submerged, profoundly altering ecosystems in ways we will never fully appreciate.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Overview of the reservoirs
- De Tyler Kyle Boyle en 11-23-22
De: Lucy Sante
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The Only Street in Paris
- Life on the Rue Des Martyrs
- De: Elaine Sciolino
- Narrado por: Elaine Sciolino
- Duración: 8 h
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General4 out of 5 stars 529
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Elaine Sciolino, the former Paris bureau chief of The New York Times, invites us on a tour of her favorite Parisian street, offering an homage to street life and the pleasures of Parisian living. While many cities suffer from the leveling effects of globalization, the rue des Martyrs maintains its distinct allure. On this street, the patron saint of France was beheaded and the Jesuits took their first vows.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not just for Paris lovers.
- De Anna en 01-18-16
De: Elaine Sciolino
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Parisians
- An Adventure History of Paris
- De: Graham Robb
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 13 h y 34 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 234
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 122
This is the Paris you never knew. From the Revolution to the present, Graham Robb has distilled a series of astonishing true narratives, all stranger than fiction. A young artillery lieutenant, strolling through the Palais-Royal, observes disapprovingly the courtesans plying their trade. A particular woman catches his eye; nature takes its course. Later that night, Napoleon Bonaparte writes a meticulous account of his first sexual encounter....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Difficult....but worth it
- De Myrna Minkoff en 10-11-10
De: Graham Robb
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The Streets of Paris
- A Guide to the City of Light Following in the Footsteps of Famous Parisians Throughout History
- De: Susan Cahill
- Narrado por: Christa Lewis
- Duración: 8 h y 17 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 36
For hundreds of years, the City of Light has set the stage for larger-than-life characters-from medieval lovers Heloïse and Abelard to the defiant King Henri IV to the brilliant scientist Madame Curie, beloved chanteuse Edith Piaf, and the writer Colette. In this book, Susan Cahill recounts the lives of 22 famous Parisians and then takes you through the seductive streets of Paris to the quartiers where they lived and worked: the scenes of their greatest triumphs and tragedies, their favorite cafes, bars, and restaurants, and the places where they found inspiration and love.
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3 out of 5 stars
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I feel there should be a pdf.
- De Matthew Spinola en 09-20-21
De: Susan Cahill
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Twilight of the Belle Epoque
- The Paris of Picasso, Stravinsky, Proust, Renault, Marie Curie, Gertrude Stein, and Their Friends Through the Great War
- De: Mary McAuliffe
- Narrado por: Nancy Peterson
- Duración: 16 h y 43 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Mary McAuliffe's Dawn of the Belle Epoque took the listener from the multiple disasters of 1870-1871 through the extraordinary re-emergence of Paris as the cultural center of the Western world. Now, in Twilight of the Belle Epoque, McAuliffe portrays Paris in full flower at the turn of the 20th century, where creative dynamos such as Picasso, Matisse, Stravinsky, Debussy, Ravel, Proust, Marie Curie, Gertrude Stein, Jean Cocteau, and Isadora Duncan set their respective circles on fire with a barrage of revolutionary visions and discoveries.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fun, immersive listen; but the narrator...
- De SBG en 02-22-23
De: Mary McAuliffe
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My Good Life in France
- In Pursuit of the Rural Dream
- De: Janine Marsh
- Narrado por: Esther Wane
- Duración: 6 h y 28 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 200
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 181
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 181
One grey dismal day, Janine Marsh was on a trip to northern France to pick up some cheap wine. She returned to England a few hours later having put in an offer on a rundown old barn in the rural Seven Valleys area of Pas de Calais. This was not something she'd expected or planned for. Janine eventually gave up her job in London to move with her husband to live the good life in France. Or so she hoped. While getting to grips with the locals and la vie Française, and renovating her dilapidated new house, a building lacking the comforts of mains drainage, heating, or proper rooms.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Really funny, delightful, informative
- De mz en 10-02-18
De: Janine Marsh
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The Discovery of France
- A Historical Geography
- De: Graham Robb
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 14 h y 4 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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A narrative of exploration - full of strange landscapes and even stranger inhabitants - that explains the enduring fascination of France. While Gustave Eiffel was changing the skyline of Paris, large parts of France were still terra incognita. Even in the age of railways and newspapers, France was a land of ancient tribal divisions, prehistoric communication networks, and pre-Christian beliefs. French itself was a minority language.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great history of the cultural formation of France
- De Scotty en 07-31-21
De: Graham Robb
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Paris France
- De: Gertrude Stein
- Narrado por: Tanya Eby
- Duración: 2 h y 31 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 27
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Celebrated for her innovative literary bravura, Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) settled into a bustling Paris at the turn of the 20th century, never again to return to her native America. While in Paris, she not only surrounded herself with - and tirelessly championed the careers of - a remarkable group of young expatriate artists but also solidified herself as "one of the most controversial figures of American letters" (New York Times).
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2 out of 5 stars
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The writing style of Gertrude Stein
- De mamax3 en 10-22-24
De: Gertrude Stein
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Princes of the Renaissance
- De: Mary Hollingsworth
- Narrado por: Karen Cass
- Duración: 13 h y 16 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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A history of the Renaissance told through the lives of its most influential patrons. From the late Middle Ages, the independent Italian city states were taken over by powerful families who installed themselves as dynastic rulers. Inspired by the humanists, the princes of 15th- and 16th-century Italy immersed themselves in the culture of antiquity, commissioning palaces, villas and churches inspired by the architecture of ancient Rome, and offering patronage to artists and writers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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ideal
- De BaliDoug en 07-04-22
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Venice
- Pure City
- De: Peter Ackroyd
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 14 h y 1 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 102
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The Venetians' language and way of thinking set them aside from the rest of Italy. They are an island people, linked to the sea and to the tides rather than the land. This latest work from the incomparable Peter Ackroyd, like a magic gondola, transports its listeners to that sensual and surprising city. His account embraces facts and romance, conjuring up the atmosphere of the canals, bridges, and sunlit squares, the churches and the markets, the festivals and the flowers.
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2 out of 5 stars
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An endless droning list.....
- De jack en 03-15-11
De: Peter Ackroyd
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Impossible City
- Paris in the Twenty-First Century
- De: Simon Kuper
- Narrado por: Tim Frances
- Duración: 6 h y 38 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 17
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 16
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 16
When Simon Kuper left London for Paris in his early thirties, he wasn't planning to make a permanent move. Paris, however, had other plans. Kuper has grown middle-aged there, eaten the croissants, seen his American wife through life-threatening cancer, taken his children to countless football matches on freezing Saturday mornings in the city's notorious banlieues, and in 2015 lived through two terrorist attacks on their neighborhood. Over two decades of becoming something of a cantankerous Parisian himself, Kuper has watched the city change.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent inside view
- De TMD en 11-24-24
De: Simon Kuper
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I Heard Her Call My Name
- A Memoir of Transition
- De: Lucy Sante
- Narrado por: Lucy Sante
- Duración: 5 h y 57 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 55
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 50
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For a long time, Lucy Sante felt unsure of her place. Born in Belgium, the only child of conservative working-class Catholic parents who transplanted their little family to the United States, she felt at home only when she moved to New York City in the early 1970s and found her people among a band of fellow bohemians. Some would die young, from drugs and AIDS, and some would become jarringly famous. Sante flirted with both fates on her way to building an estimable career as a writer. But she still felt like her life was a performance. She was presenting a facade, even to herself.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I'm so glad I read this book
- De Judy in Salt Lake en 03-09-25
De: Lucy Sante
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The Louvre
- The Many Lives of the World's Most Famous Museum
- De: James Gardner
- Narrado por: Graham Halstead
- Duración: 12 h y 47 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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The fascinating and little-known story of the Louvre, from its inception as a humble fortress to its transformation into the palatial residence of the kings of France and then into the world's greatest art museum.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Enlightening
- De Jean en 10-29-20
De: James Gardner
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Glossy
- The Inside Story of Vogue
- De: Nina-Sophia Miralles
- Narrado por: Esther Wane
- Duración: 9 h y 57 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 3
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 3
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 3
Vogue magazine started, like so many great things do, in the spare room of someone's house. But unlike other such makeshift projects that flare up then fizzle away, Vogue burnt itself onto our cultural consciousness. Today, 128 years later, Vogue spans twenty-two countries, has an international print readership upwards of twelve million, and nets over sixty-seven million monthly online users. Uncontested market leader for a century, it is one of the most recognizable brands in the world and a multi-million dollar money-making machine.
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Expatriate Paris
- A Cultural and Literary Guide to Paris of the 1920s
- De: Arlen J. Hansen
- Narrado por: Robert Blumenfeld
- Duración: 8 h y 33 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 13
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Paris has long been a storied center of art and culture, and of romance, but in the 1920s its magnetism was especially irresistible. From around the world writers, artists, and composers steamed in, to visit or linger, some to reside. This book - a work of immense erudition spiced with anecdotes and gossip - documents their haunts and habits, their comings and goings, their relationships intimate and artistic.
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1 out of 5 stars
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A rushed and boring affair
- De Lenora A. Timm en 03-19-14
De: Arlen J. Hansen
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Paris
- The Novel
- De: Edward Rutherfurd
- Narrado por: Jean Gilpin
- Duración: 38 h y 20 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,722
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,542
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,539
Internationally best-selling author Edward Rutherfurd has enchanted millions of readers with his sweeping, multigenerational dramas that illuminate the great achievements and travails throughout history. In this breathtaking saga of love, war, art, and intrigue, Rutherfurd has set his sights on the most magnificent city in the world: Paris. Moving back and forth in time across centuries, the story unfolds through intimate and vivid tales of self-discovery, divided loyalties, passion, and long-kept secrets of characters both fictional and real, all set against the backdrop of the glorious city.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Paris: The Novel (is that helpful?)
- De Mel en 05-07-13
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Other Paris
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Total5 out of 5 stars
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- Randall Sellers
- 01-28-19
Truly impassioned book about Paris
Luc Sante describes a Paris not of the touristy boulevards, boutiques and bistros but of the shadowy corners where bohemians, revolutionaries, the working class and criminals gave urban life its rich texture (now sadly endangered by unchecked capitalist gentrification). The author's enthusiasm for his subject comes through in his narration, making this book a great read and an even better listen. Easily the best book about Paris currently available on Audible.
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- Sergio Remon
- 03-28-19
horrible reading
I guess there are probably people who like this type of reading. But the reading is so stylized, it is almost impossible to actually listen to the book, which is actually excellent. So, again, great book, wretched. reading.
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