"Splendid... Reading The Most Beautiful Walk in the World is the
next best thing to a Paris vacation." -Boston Globe
"Anyone who loves Paris and loves to walk will feel this book was
written just for them." -USA Today
In this enchanting national bestseller, acclaimed author and long-time
expat Paris resident John Baxter draws on his experience guiding
"literary walking tours" through the city to proved a delightful
walker's guide to France's capital. Baxter sets off with unsuspecting
tourists in tow on the trail of Paris's legendary artists and writers of
the past. Along the way, he tells the history of Paris through a
brilliant cast of characters: the favorite cafés of Ernest Hemingway, F.
Scott Fitzgerald, and James Joyce; Pablo Picasso's underground
Montmartre haunts; the bustling boulevards of the
late-nineteenth-century flâneurs; the secluded "Little Luxembourg"
gardens beloved by Gertrude Stein; the alleys where revolutionaries
plotted; and finally Baxter's own favorite walk near his home in
Saint-Germain-des-Prés.