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Pablo Picasso…8Coco Chanel…12Ernest Hemingway…16Edith Piaf…20Charles de Gaulle…24Honoré de Balzac…28Josephine Baker…32Simone de Beauvoir & Jean-Paul Sartre…36Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec…40Julia Child…44Émile Zola…48 Auguste Rodin…52Molière…56Henri Cartier-Bresson…60Napoléon Bonaparte…64George Sand…68 Yves Saint Laurent…72 Audrey Hepburn…76 Victor Hugo…80Marie Antoinette…84Henry Miller & Anaïs Nin…88Claude Monet…92Serge Gainsbourg…96Henri Matisse…100Colette…104
Acknowledgments…108
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I love Paris. And I know I’m not alone in that regard. I’ve strategizedlong and hard to nd ways to spend time there on a regular basis. Ilove visiting favorite places that I know will deliver a happy
frisson
of delight when I step inside—the paper shop where I once bought my wedding invitations, whose fragile old door still signals my arrival withthat familiar little jingle; my favorite, intimate, packed-to-the-rafters bookshop; the Luxembourg Gardens on a crisp autumn day; the satis-faction of knowing where to buy the best
chausson aux pommes
. Andthe list goes on. But I also love Paris because it never fails to teachme something new. No matter how many times I’ve walked its streets,I always happen upon some detail that I’ve never noticed before—a plaque identifying where someone lived, a centuries-old restauranthidden down some side street, a specialty museum I never knew existed, a new
patissier
,
even a graceful new bridge arcing across theSeine. Each discovery offers me a fresh chance to fall in love with thecity anew.This guide follows in the footsteps of twenty-seven of Paris’s mostfamous artists, authors, lovers, politicians, and ne’er-do-wells. FromNapoléon Bonaparte to Coco Chanel to Serge Gainsbourg, the intimate walking tours within illuminate the lives and loves of some of Paris’s best-known devotees. But this guide also shows how important thecity itself is to their stories, and what a catalyst it has been over time.Paris, in many cases, helped these people nd their calling. They usedthe city as their muse, drew inspiration from its beauty, exposed itsunderbelly, and, in every single case, were transformed and elevated by it. As a result, they went on to change the course of art, fashion, food,philosophy, politics, and beyond. The well-loved streets are not just
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