{"product_id":"paris-a-photographic-journey-9780785837749","title":"Paris: A Photographic Journey","description":"\u003cp\u003eParis: A Photographic Journey provides a historical introduction to the subject and then  in nearly 200 photographs  a journey through its historical sightsbringing the story up to date with scenes of the awful fire that ravaged Notre Dame cathedral in April 2019.  Paris has long been popularly known as the City of Light for its architectural beauty and tradition of intellectualism. It is the royal city of Louis XIV  the Sun King  and Napoleon. It is the intellectual city of Enlightenment luminaries such as Rousseau and Voltaire. It is the city of bloody revolution and Madame la Guillotine. It is a city of varietyof magnificent Gothic cathedrals  the grand avenues of Baron Haussmann  and cutting-edge contemporary buildings.  Divided into the most renowned areas of this famous city  Paris melds historic and modern photography to show how the City of Light has grown through the centuries. This coffee table travel book will inspire ideas on how you can spend your time when you visit  or just give you a momentary escape to this romantic European city of dreams. Pictures include those of the gorgeous architectural marvels like the Arc de Triomphe  the Lourve  the Eiffle Tower  and the Moulin Rouge. Shops and restaurants of all French specialties are portrayed with dazzling authenticity. Explore the city as if you were traveling with you very own tour guide through the historic cobbled streets.  Artists  writers  and poets have flocked to Paris through the years and all attempted to capture something of its complexity and vervesuch renowned names as Toulouse Lautrec  Seurat  Picasso  Dumas  Hugo  and Rimbaud among them. Paris is the city of elegance but alongside the Belle poque designs are the risqu dancers of the Moulin Rouge. It is redolent of music and high fashion  of opulence and decadence  of culture and rigorous philosophy. Above all  though  it is a city of enchantment. Paris has been seducing visitors for countless centuries.  Today  the city is the commercial center and the cultural heart of France. Paris teems year round with tourists who come to sample fine cuisine  gaze upon artistic treasures  and take in the indefinable but heady atmosphere of this most romantic of cities.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45646980186165,"sku":"ByrdShop_0785837744","price":40.33,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780785837749.jpg?v=1781684405","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/paris-a-photographic-journey-9780785837749","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}