Paris by Seager, Zachary -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Contents Map Introduction LONGING FOR A LOST PARIS

GUSTAVE EIFFEL Artists’ Protest against the Eiffel Tower Response to the Artist’s Protest VICTOR HUGO from The Hunchback of Notre Dame CHARLES BAUDELAIRE The Swan OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES SR. from The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE from Le Flâneur des Deux Rives

PARIS, CENTRE OF THE WORLD

LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU from Letters from the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS from Letters on the Events Which Have Passed in France Since the Restoration in 1815 WILLIAM WELLS BROWN from Three Years in Europe MARIE BASHKIRTSEFF from The Journal of Marie Bashkirtseff F. BERKELEY SMITH from How Paris Amuses Itself

PARIS, LOVE, LOVERS, AND THE LONELY

HONORÉ DE BALZAC from A Street of Paris and its Inhabitant EUGÉNE FRANÇOIS VIDOCQ from Jean Monette GUY DE MAUPASSANT An Adventure in Paris MARK TWAIN The Story of Abelard and Heloise SIDONIE-GABRIELLE COLETTE from Claudine in Paris

PARIS, CITY OF POETS AND POETRY

WILLA CATHER Paris ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING from Aurora Leigh ALAN SEEGER Paris I AMY LOWELL Two Travellers in the Place Vendôme SARA TEASDALE Paris in Spring

INJUSTICE, REVOLUTION, WAR

MADAME DE SÉVIGNÉ from The Letters of Madame de Sévigné to her Daughter and Friends JULES MICHELET from The History of the French Revolution GUSTAVE FLAUBERT from Sentimental Education EDITH WHARTON from Fighting France

EXILES, ADVENTURERS, AND THE LOST

GIACOMO CASANOVA from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt VERNON LEE from Genius Loci ARNOLD BENNETT from Paris Nights and Other Impressions of Places and People GEORGE ORWELL from Down and Out in Paris and London

LA VIE D’ARTISTE

OUIDA

from A Dog of Flanders and Other Stories WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY from The Paris Sketchbook of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh GERTRUDE STEIN from The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas ERNEST HEMINGWAY from A Moveable Feast Permissions Acknowledgements Footnotes By the Same Author Copyright

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