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Paris Tales is a highly evocative collection of stories by French and Francophone writers who have been inspired by specific locations in this most visited of c

Paris and London have long held a mutual fascination, and never more so than in the period 1750–1914, when they vied to be the world's greatest city. Each cit

By turns humorous, bittersweet, historical, or surreal, each of these carefully selected stories invites readers to explore a different facet of Paris.

This is a book about discovery and disaster, exploitation and invention, warfare and science - and the relationship between human beings and the chemical elemen