Walking Tours of the Painters' Studios, Homes, and the Sites They Painted

By Ellen Williams

This elegant book pairs some of the world's beloved masterpieces with the exact locations where they were painted. The entertaining and informative text combines the history of art with anecdotes about the painters' lives and full-color reproductions as well as restaurant recommendations from the period. "This pocketable hardcover book is a small marvel. It is fun to look at and fun to read." — John Russell, The New York Times

ISBN: 0964126222 • 96 pages • Hardcover

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By Jessica Powell
Make a literary pilgrimage through Paris by following in the footsteps of thirty writers who made the city their home. Starting with Moliere in the seventeenth century and ending with James Baldwin in the twentieth, Literary Paris profiles thirty writers and describes more than one hundred sites associated with them--from cafes, salons, homes, and haunts, to locations in the city they so beautifully described in their writing.

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By Ellen Williams

Four walking tours through some of the most picturesque and historic districts of the city follow Picasso from the gaslit garrets of Montmartre to the Left Bank quarter where he sat out the Occupation. Along the way, meet his celebrated circle of friends, including Gertrude Stein, Henri Matisse, and Coco Chanel. With color reproductions, photographs, and period dining recommendations.

"...the engaging writing and thorough research make for an excellent travel guide—or just a great read."— Time Out New York

ISBN: 0964126273 • 144 pages • Hardcover

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By Ellen Williams

The world of 19th-century Paris awaits in restaurants and gourmet shops that have delighted customers for a century or more, including a confectioner that supplied bonbons to Monet.

"In these elegantly designed pages you will discover...the cafe where Hemingway supped on garlicky pork sausage, potatoes marinated in olive oil and a large stein of draft beer...tiled floors that lead to secret underground passageways or red velour banquettes beneath stained glass ceiling panels."—Chicago Tribune

ISBN: 1892145030 • 224 pages • Hardcover

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Mme. Albaret was Proust's housekeeper in his last years, when he withdrew from the world to write In Search of Lost Time. She broke her fifty-year silence about Proust when she published this memoir at age eighty-two, presenting an intimate picture of the daily life of the great writer and deeply peculiar man. Madame herself proves to be a shrewd and engaging companion. As Proust said to her, "You know everything about me." This is as close as we can come to meeting Proust in person.

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By François Thomazeau
Photographs by Sylvain Ageorges
Translated by Anna Moschovakis

There may be a bistro on every block in Paris, but distinguishing the good from the disappointing isn't so easy: these little neighborhood restaurants look alike—zinc (or wood or pewter) bar, with small dining room, daily specials on the chalkboard, husband in the kitchen, wife up front. But the 51 bistros profiled here stand apart from the others by virtue of their food, often regional dishes native to the owners' home province, and wine, often a short but well-chosen list from small vineyards with which the owner has a longstanding relationship.

Some of the gems included in Authentic Bistros of Paris include:

• Le Bistrot de peintre, frequented by artists and gallery owners, with a façade that is considered the most beautiful example of the Modern style in Paris
• The exquisite La Palette, with its incomparable terrace and celebrity clientele, from Pablo Picasso to Catherine Deneuve
• The picturesque La Tartine, “the most-photographed bar in Paris”
• Le Petit fer a cheval, where more than 20 select small-label wines are offered, and served to patrons seated on recycled metro benches or at the horseshoe-shaped antique bar
• Chez Georges, the archetypical Latin Quarter wine bar, frequented by a convivial mélange of old-timers, students, and locals.


This discriminating little guide offers an endless source of charming and unpretentious places to enjoy a morning coffee, savor a memorable meal, or sip an afternoon aperitif in the most authentic Parisian settings.

Sumptuous color photographs throughout.

PB • 193pp

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Cobb, the incomparable Oxford historian of the French Revolution, was a passionate admirer of France, a connoisseur of the dive and the flophouse, and a longtime familiar of the quays of Paris and docks of Le Havre and Marseille. Collecting memoirs, portraits of favorite haunts, appreciations of notables, and including the famous polemic "The Assassination of Paris," Paris and Elsewhere shows us an authentic France unglimpsed by tourists.

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by Stendhal

This is the autobiography of one of France's greatest writers. Here, with such ferocious honesty and indignation that it was to remain unpublishable for more than a century, Stendhal revisits his unhappy childhood in a stuffy provincial town. His adored mother, who died when he was seven; a father devoted only to his own social ambitions; the aunt whose daily cruelties passed for care: these are among the indelible portraits in a work that captures Stendhal's youth, its pleasures and sorrows.
PB • 5" x 8" • 544 pp

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One of Balzac's most celebrated tales, this is the story of a painter who, depending on one's perspective, is either an abject failure or a transcendental genius—or both. The story, which has served as an inspiration to artists as various as Henry James and Picasso, is, in Dore Ashton's words, a "fable of modern art." Here it appears as Balzac intended, with "Gambara," a grotesque and tragic novella about a musician undone by his dreams.

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