For many people, Paris is the epitome of the perfect city--beautiful,
romantic, and imbued with vitality and culture. It is a wonderful place
to visit and to live in. Packed with fact, anecdote, and insight, A
Traveller's History of Paris offers a complete history of Paris and the
people who have shaped its destiny, from its earliest settlement as the
Roman village of Lutetia Parisiorum with a few hundred inhabitants, to
20 centuries later when Paris is a city of well over two million--nearly
one-fifth of the population of France. This handy paperback is fully
indexed and includes a Chronology of Major Events, as well as sections
on Notre-Dame and historic churches, Modernism, parks, bridges,
cemeteries, museums and galleries, the Metro, and the environs.
Illustrated with line drawings and historical maps, this is an
invaluable book for all visitors to read and enjoy.