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| Paris | 
 enlarge | Author: Assouline
Publisher: Assouline
Category: Book
List Price: $49.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (3 reviews)
Sales Rank: 458089
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 976
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.7 x 3
ISBN: 2843236061
Dewey Decimal Number: 778
EAN: 9782843236068
ASIN: 2843236061
Publication Date: October 15, 2004
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| Customer Reviews:
 Paris--A pictorial heaven November 5, 2006
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
As they say on ebay, Buy it now! I spotted this book in a display at Saks, tried to purchase it there, only to find that I had to buy the whole library and bookshelves that went with it. So instead of the $48k, I bought it at Amazon alone. I am a lover of all things Parisian and this book is just breathtaking. Assouline lives up to his reputation. The photos are incomparable to anything I could snap with my didgital camera on vacation last spring.
Primo daydream material! July 11, 2006
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Just got this book and have only been through it once. I'll go back again and again, because I'll probably never get to actually visit Paris. The aforementioned out-of-focus photos do exist but for my purposes they are not troubling. A couple of two-page spreads annoyingly place the center of attention right on the crease. But it still gets 5 stars from me. I love the writings, too.
 Welcome to Paris! May 18, 2000
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a thoroughly enjoyable book full of insight, witticisms, and full-page photos of the City of Lights. The author speaks candidly and casually of the city as one would of a dear friend, including charming anecdotes of his days there. Mentions are made of the usual tourist spots: the Eiffel Tower, the Moulin Rouge, et cetera, but also little known spots and out of the way places. The myriad of pictures throughout the book only serves to heighten the sense of being there: you can almost feel the well-worn cobblestone beneath your feet as you stroll the streets, hear tourists and natives alike conversing en francais at corner cafes, smell the freshly baked bread from the boulangerie patisseries, and see the sunlight glinting off the Seine. A must-read for anyone who has been or simply dreams of visiting Paris.
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