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Old-Fashioned Corners of Paris [Audiobook] download free by Christophe Destournelles

Old-Fashioned Corners of Paris Audiobook download free by Christophe Destournelles
  • Listen audiobook: Old-Fashioned Corners of Paris
  • Author: Christophe Destournelles
  • Release date: 2014/3/22
  • Publisher: LITTLE BOOKROOM,U.S.
  • Language: English
  • Genre or Collection: Travel and Holiday Guides
  • ISBN: 9781936941100
  • Rating: 9.75 of 10
  • Votes: 881
  • Review by: Chelsea George
  • Review rating: 7.79 of 10
  • Review Date: 2018/9/21
  • Duration: 2H29M15S in 256 kbps (38.8 MB)
  • Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-10
  • You can listen to this audiobook in formats: FLAC, Musepack, WAV, MPEG4, WMA, AC3, TTA, MP3 (compression CBR, ZIP, BZ, RAR)
  • Total pages original book: 194
  • Includes a PDF summary of 19 pages
  • Duration of the summary (audio): 14M50S (3.8 MB)
  • Description or summary of the audiobook: Here and there, if you know where to look, it still is possible to catch a glimpse of an almost-vanished Paris: a scene, an object, that somehow has miraculously survived decades, even centuries. Old-fashioned Pleasures of Paris is a small and exquisite catalog of these rarities. Christophe Destournelles has discovered dozens of vintage 'moments' confiseries, barbershops, glove shops; a bougnat (a café that traditionally also sold coal) a bouillion (a restaurant that originally served soup); hookah lounges, movie theatres, harness races, dive bars, and underground jazz clubs. He's found vintage photo booths, carousels, public scales, the last remaining pissoir. He's uncovered tiny establishments that quietly carry on with obscure trades: phonograph, radio, and clock repair; hand pressing; shoe polishing. Small details that would be easy to overlook are celebrated in all their everyday glory: the illuminated subway map, the café where the napkins of regulars are kept in a nook, the once-ubiquitous little stand of hardboiled eggs that once could be found on every zinc bar. Each of these spots, however humble, is worth a visit; even the routier, a restaurant that originally served truck drivers, is a visual feast, with its yellow formica counter, red and white checked napkins, and handwritten menu, antique café chairs, and vintage signage. Lovers of Paris will be thrilled to know what streets are particularly beautiful when the snow falls, the history of old telephone exchanges, and where to find old-timers playing pétanque. This is a book for visitors-addresses and phone numbers are listed for each venue-and armchair travelers who will be transported to another place and time by the sumptuous photographs. Literary quotations throughout add another layer of romance to this book that celebrates Paris past and present.
  • Other categories, genre or collection: Guidebooks
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  • Format: Paperback
  • Approximate value: 14.84 USD
  • Dimensions: 123x160x13mm
  • Weight: 280g
  • Printed by: Not Available
  • Published in: New York, United States

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Categories: Travel and Holiday Guides, LITTLE BOOKROOM,U.S., English, 2014
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Publishers
VINTAGE PUBLISHING TENEUES PUBLISHING UK LTD BENTLEY (ROBERT) INC.,US ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD SIMON & SCHUSTER LTD IMRAY, LAURIE, NORIE & WILSON LTD SPECIALTY PRESS NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
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Transportation Travel and Holiday Guides