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Visit the iconic Eiffel Tower, Sacre Coeur and Notre Dame. Dive into art at the Louvre, Pompidou Centre, Musee d'Orsay and the new Centquatre. Stroll the Champs-Elysees or Ile St-Louis, and then sample a patisserie or some fresh-baked bread. Sights within this pocket-sized guide are reviewed according to Michelin's time-honored star-rating system, so travelers can experience the best Paris has to offer. Michelin Short-Stays Guides are a handy pocket guide with a detachable map to help you get around and explore the city or country that you are visiting. Presenting the top attractions for a 24-hour visit, a weekend or longer. You'll find a choice of restaurants for any budget. This pocket-size guide helps you do it all with its detailed maps, recommended places to eat and stay, and Michelin's respected star-rating system. A detachable map is included to help you plan and navigate your trip with ease. Each guide has an introductory welcome to section with how to get there, Must Sees, Top Picks, Favourites and a Suggested Itinarary. Use the Discovering section to plan your own visit to sights and attractions, each attraction is listed with one to three stars,* Interesting, ** Recommended, and *** Highly Recommended. A comprehensive addresses section with Where to Eat, Where to Drink, Shopping, Nightlife and finally Where to Stay. The Find Out More Section will give you a little history of the city the guide covers,along with information about Architecture, Activities for Kids, Sports and other special activities or specialities of the city or region you are visiting. Finally the Planning your Trip Section, has practical information, Know before you go. Basic Information, driving, cycling, public transportation, tax's, sports, taxi's and telephones. There is also a festivals and events calendar lisiting annual events and other exhibitions. * Detachable Map of the local area * Coloured sections to use the guide, colour photographs * Unmissable must see sights and attractionsand places to visit * Star selections ***, **, * * Address lists of restaurants, hotels, cafes, and bars. * Shopping and Nighlife information * A recommended Itinerary * Practical tips

"Death was not uncommon on the western frontier....... Many pioneers lost their lives in their trek westward...Among those taking this risk were the Benders. A family of German immigrants who settled on the barren prairie, in the early 1870s. When the brother of Col. Alexander M. York, a Kansas Senator, went missing, the Colonel and his posse set-out to locate him, at all costs. He was not prepared for the EVIL that he found. Cold-blooded murder, fueled by robbery, fame and twisted Spiritualism. Age nor gender mattered. None were spared! The Benders appeared out of nowhere onto the prairie.....until now. For the first time published, FRESH evidence and facts are documented to tell the true story of The Bloody Benders. Cutting through the hype, myths and fabrications... The Benders, their history, and origins are finally revealed. Justice has finally come for the victims of this family's devilish deeds"--

Immerse yourself in the secrets of the French countryside and discover the sweetness of love and wine.

Nicked unfurls a riveting tale of high-stakes art theft, where the worlds of crime and culture collide. A Parisian van, laden with precious fine art destined for a London sale, falls prey to a cunning heist. Amidst this chaos, Alistair, a casual holidaymaker, finds himself thrust into the heart of the intrigue. Urged to chase the thieves, his pursuit catapults him across the Channel, back to France. Set predominantly in the picturesque southwest of France, Nicked invites readers to explore the enchanting ambience of a 14th-century village perched atop a hill, a locale unwittingly entwined in the heist. By a twist of fate, this village, steeped in history and mystery, is where Alistair owns a summer retreat. As the narrative weaves through the cobbled streets and ancient architecture, suspense builds: will the art thieves' paths cross with that of Alistair, the impromptu investigator? Nicked masterfully combines the allure of a rustic French village with the adrenaline of a crime thriller, keeping readers on the edge of their seats as they ponder whether the art and its pursuer will converge in this unexpected haven.

Fortabt og forgabt i byernes by. På en og samme tid. I løbet af 37 sommerdage sætter Jytte Lund Larsen sig for at udforske særligt tre arrondissementer i Paris. Målet er at komme ind under huden på pariserne og undersøge, om det er muligt at få en fællesskabsfølelse med byen og dens borgere og forstå den multinationale kultur og livsstil på så kort tid. Jytte Lund Larsen skifter de overrendte turiststier ud med nye og spændende veje, der alle fører til helt særlige møder, oplevelser og tanker. Intet er helt, som de 27 andre gange hun har været i byen. Fortabt i Paris er et essay om en sommer ud over det sædvanlige …

In 2023, the new Maison de la Chine was opened as part of the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris (CIUP), the French capital's famous campus of student residencies founded in 1925. Designed by Beijing-based Atelier Feichang Jianzhu (Atelier FCJZ) and realized in collaboration with the French architecture firm Coldefy, the building continues the tradition of national pavilions within the CIUP. The Maison de la Chine's design bears the DNA of traditional Chinese architecture, yet Atelier FCJZ also clearly acknowledges its inspiration from Le Corbusier. This book documents the building and its design process in rich detail through sketches, drawings, plans, and photographs. Architectural historian and curator Martino Stierli places the Maison de la Chine in the context of the evolution of contemporary Chinese architecture. Yung Ho Chang and Yishi Cheng, respectively the founding partner of and project architect at Atelier FCJZ, discuss conceptual and technical aspects of the design. The volume is completed by American critic Ariel Genadt, whose essay relates the building to the site's extraordinary history and the culture within which it was created.

Eine geheimnisvolle Schmuggelroute, weltberühmte russische Artefakte - gestohlen aus der Rüstkammer des Moskauer Kremls und zwei Banden, die um die Vorherrschaft mit dem Geschäft gestohlener Artefakte kämpfen. Pjotr und Boris, unbarmherzig und ehrgeizig, möchten den charmanten Gentlemen Gauner Arnaud und seine Freunde aus dem Verkehr ziehen. Und für Jack, amerikanischer Bundesamte von Homeland Security, beginnt eine rasante Jagd zwischen Washington und Paris...

At 3.00 a.m. on 18th July, 2014, Mal Garrett and his wife Liz were awakened in Paris by a phone call with the sort of news no one ever wishes to receive: Liz's sister Jill and Jill's husband Roger, from whom they had parted only two days before after a delightful river cruise from Budapest to Amsterdam, had been on their way home to Australia on flight MH17, when it was blasted out of the skies over Ukraine. In the days, months, and years ahead, Mal found solace in expressing his pain in poetry. As a former English teacher and author of English textbooks, this was a natural medium for him. Having found his poetic voice, Mal has continued to write poems, both in response to loss but also to capture joy and to reflect on current issues. A particular joy has been that of being a grandparent. Mal is dedicating any income made from the sales of this anthology to assisting the people of Ukraine.

This is Book 3 in the Longing for Home series and it is recommended you read the earlier two books first:Book 1: Lonely in ParisBook 2: Troubled in ParadiseJane & Jacques' #1 goal: Find their forever homeThey've weathered the storms of manipulative family members and the ups and downs of their evolving relationship, growing closer with every challenge. Now, with their dreams of a forever home in Australia within reach, they return to Paris to finalise business affairs.But when Jacques' brother drops a bombshell that threatens everything they've built, the foundation of their shared dream trembles. As Jacques grapples with this revelation, he unearths the dark secret at the heart of all his family troubles.The surprise arrival of Jane's parents is perfectly timed, providing a much-needed reprieve from the mounting pressure. Jane is elated at the chance to spend time with them, but her joy is short lived when she learns of a devastating lie that will shatter her world.On the brink of their happily ever after and much-awaited forever home, Jane and Jacques must overcome the unexpected twists that will force them to reconsider what home really means.Be sure to order your copy of this exciting billionaire chick-lit, the third and final book of the Longing for Home series, and follow Jane and Jacques for the final time.Trigger warning: This novel contains references to brain tumours and medical treatments, which may be triggering or upsetting for some readers.

Die scheußlich-genialen Verbrechen eines Taxidermisten im Paris des 19. Jahrhunderts und dessen dramatische Suche nach der Konservierung des ¿Schönen¿ lassen eine Epoche Frankreichs lebendig werden, die an Groteskem, Makabrem und Vulgärem anderen finsteren Epochen in nichts nachsteht.Die Geschichte des Sonderlings Cassegrain ist eine zum Gruseln, zum Nachdenken und zum Eintauchen in eine faszinierende Vergangenheit.

Les HABITS NOIRS, roman historique, est le premier tome du cycle des HABITS NOIRS, oeuvre monumentale de Paul FEVAL qui rencontrera un grand succès.Un chef d'oeuvre de mystère et de suspens. Résumé: l'histoire débute à Caen en 1825. André Maynotte, artisan bijoutier, est accusé d'avoir dérobé une somme importante dans le coffre du banquier Bancelle. Condamné au bagne, il échappe à la justice et découvre peu à peu qu'il est l'innocente victime d'une machination.A-t-il eu le malheur de déplaire à quelqu'un? Quelqu'un convoite-t-il sa ravissante épouse? ou sert-il simplement de bous émissaire? il tente de répondre à ces questions et la vérité lui apparait: ceux qui le persécute font partie d'une vaste organisation secrète, les "HABITS NOIRS". Ils sont partout dans la bourgeoisie, dans la rue, les auberges, les endroits les plus sinistres.. Leur signe de ralliement est une phrase anodine qui sème la terreur: "Fera-t-il jour demain?"....

Sanyu: His Life and Works in Oil traces the life of theChinese artist (1895-1966) from his early years in Chinaand Japan, to his artistic experimentation and developmentin Paris and New York, ending in his tragic death,impoverished and forgotten. Today, however, Sanyu is oneof the most coveted Chinese modern artists. An examinationof his life reveals that it was precisely the polaritiesand tensions he experienced that spurred him to create aunique pictorial language that so dynamically integratedthe spirit of Western modernity with centuries-old establishedChinese traditions. Sanyu metamorphosed froma Chinese artist of the modern period to a modernistwith Chinese cultural roots. These intersecting dynamicsresulted in a hybridization previously unseen.Featuring examples of his works of all genres and drawingon a wealth of archival material as well as personal storiesrecounted by people who knew Sanyu, this biography is themost comprehensive record of Sanyu's life to date.

Every marriage is different. And family is more than blood.Ava and Claire have moved on from the traumatic events of 1934 - while Ava has decided at last to marry patient Max Byrne and allow love back into her life, Claire and her husband have gone to France to repair their relationship. Harry encounters an old friend in Paris and offers to assist two Jewish refugees trying to flee a continent on the verge of war.Back in Philadelphia, Ava navigates the challenges of being a doctor's wife while maintaining her independence. When Max becomes involved with recent refugees coming to his clinic, their lives intertwine with Harry Warriner's larger project.In a time of tremendous upheaval, can the sisters find the strength to embrace the ever-changing relationships of marriage and family? Ava and Claire will discover that love and family can transcend blood and that true courage is not measured in action, but in the heart.

Exploring Paris arm in arm with Balzac, nineteenth-century France’s most famous novelist and observer

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online.Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content.The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework of Reference for language learning (CEFR). Exercises at the back of each Reader help language learners to practise grammar, vocabulary, and key exam skills. Before, during and after-reading questions test readers' story comprehension and develop vocabulary.Les Misérables, a Level 4 Reader, is A2+ in the CEFR framework. The text is made up of sentences with up to three clauses, introducing more complex uses of present perfect simple, passives, phrasal verbs and simple relative clauses. It is well supported by illustrations, which appear regularly.In nineteenth-century France, life was hard for many people. Victor Hugo's famous book tells the story of Jean Valjean, who spends 19 years in prison for stealing bread. When Valjean leaves prison he starts a business and tries to become a better man, but Javert the policeman will do anything to stop him.Visit the Penguin Readers websiteExclusively with the print edition, readers can unlock online resources including a digital book, audio edition, lesson plans and answer keys.

However shared the Roman inheritance may be, it hardly unifies. Which Rome is the model, the Republic or the Empire? The Rome of imperial conquest or of civil war? By whom is it ruled? By the glorious conqueror who extended universal peace, the rule of law, and infrastructure - roads and aqueducts - or by the detested tyrant who imposed domination? Or worse, the corruptor of republican liberty and source of putrefying decadence? Rome always returns, but which Rome? France presents itself as a privileged locus for Rome's return since the beginnings of its history. The perennial recourse to ancient Rome - as model or anti-model - binds together a cohesive tradition. The logic of this gesture asserts a unity beyond modern identity politics, which depend on defining a "them" against "us," to resist nativist assumptions about national character, French, German, Italian, American, etc. All share the same polysemous inheritance, for good or ill. All are Roman and all resist Rome without needing to agree on what exactly is shared. The unity underlying the discourse, however, no longer depends on defining Rome as an origin. Instead, Rome's figuration persists discursively, as a translation: to be translated time and time again.

'The Susan Sontag of her generation' Deborah LevyThe story of two couples who live in the same apartment in north-east Paris almost fifty years apart.In 2019, Anna, a psychoanalyst, is processing a recent miscarriage. Her husband, David, takes a job in London so she spends days obsessing over renovating the kitchen while befriending a younger woman called Clémentine who has moved into the building and is part of a radical feminist collective called les colleuses.Meanwhile, in 1972, Florence and Henry are redoing their kitchen. Florence is finishing her degree in psychology while hoping to get pregnant. But Henry isn't sure he's ready for fatherhood...Both sets of couples face the challenges of marriage, fidelity, and pregnancy. The characters and their ghosts bump into and weave around each other, not knowing that they once all inhabited the same space.A novel in the key of Éric Rohmer, Scaffolding is about the bonds we create with people, and the difficulty of ever fully severing them; about the ways that people we've known live on in us; and about the way that the homes we make hold communal memories of the people who've lived in them and the stories that have been told there.'Atmospheric and evocative, the prose elegant and poised' Observer

Raphaël et Elysa ne croyaient pas en Lui, ne l'avaient jamais prié.Pourtant, ils sont les tout premiers à être choisis pour retrouver une vie qui leur a été volée et vivre un amour éternel.Confrontés à l'incompréhension du spirituel et du sacré, ils vont se laisser guider, se laisser "transformés" en toute confiance et ce retour à la vie, va leur révéler la vision d'un monde nouveau.

1941: På det glamourøse hotel Ritz i Paris bor en kvinde med en farlig hemmelighed. Som Coco Chanels personlige assistent bor Adèle side om side med tyske officerer i hotel Ritz’ pragt. Men Adèle har en hemmelighed. Hun arbejder for modstandsbevægelsen.Da det besatte Paris bliver farligere og farligere at opholde sig i, bliver Adèle nødt til at beslutte, om hun fortsat skal risikere alt for at redde uskyldige liv og beskytte den mand, hun elsker.NUTID: Chloés mormor har aldrig talt om krigen og undgår spørgsmål om den legendariske designer, hun engang arbejdede for. Nu er Chloé kommet til Paris for at afsløre sandheden om Adèles liv. Men er hun forberedt på, hvad hun vil finde – og hvad nu, hvis hendes mormors hemmelighed vil ændre hendes familie for altid?

Als die verheiratete Ruth fünfzig wird, gerät sie in eine Krise. Ihre Ehe liegt in Trümmern und auch sonst laufen die Dinge alles andere als rund. Gemeinsam mit ihrer langjährigen Freundin Dorothea, einer ebenfalls in Paris lebenden Deutschen, versucht sie die "verlorenen Jahre" zurückzuholen, indem sie nachts die Pariser Bars unsicher macht. Kurz darauf schon lernt sie den jungen Samuel kennen, der zunächst vorgibt, bereits zwanzig zu sein. Erst mit der Zeit, als Ruth sich bereits unsterblich in ihn verliebt hat, erfährt sie, dass er erst sechzehn ist...

'The Spy Coast is The Thursday Murder Club on steroids' SAGA Magazine'I loved it. A hugely entertaining read!' ANN CLEEVESMaggie Bird is many things. A chicken farmer. A good neighbour. A seemingly average retiree living in the seaside town of Purity. She's also a darned good rifle shot. And she never talks about her past.But when an unidentified body is left on Maggie's driveway, she knows it's a calling card from old times. It's been fifteen years since the failed mission that ended her career as a spy, and cost her far more than her job.Step forward the 'Martini Club' - Maggie's silver-haired book group (to anyone who asks), and a cohort of former spies behind closed doors. With the help of her old friends - and always one step ahead of the persistent local cop - Maggie might still be able to save the life she's built.The Spy Coast is the first novel in the Martini Club series.'Gerritsen is a born storyteller, and this new series showcases her talents more than ever. Irresistible and highly recommended!' LEE CHILD'Echoes of Richard Osman but Gerritsen offers us a darker and consistently exciting thriller' THE MAIL ON SUNDAY'Action-packed pages, G-force twists and turns, and a platoon of fascinating characters' DAVID BALDACCITess Gerritsen, Sunday Times bestseller, January 2024

San Francisco, 1906. I en by der vrimler med nyslåede millionærer og intrigante opkomlinge, håber to meget forskellige kvinder på at ændre deres skæbner: Gemma, en guldhåret, sølvstemmet sopran, hvis karriere desperat trænger til genoplivning, og Suling, en brodøse i China Town, der er fast besluttet på at slippe ud af et arrangeret ægteskab. Deres veje krydses, da de bliver trukket ind i kredsen omkring Henry Thornton, en charmerende jernbanemagnat, hvis ekstraordinære samling af kinesiske antikviteter omfatter den sagnomspundne Fønikskrone.

Ny bog af forfatteren til Haren med de ravgule øjne“Fra Proust og parisiske rigdomme til Holocausts rædsler …en fremragende og følsom fortælling” The GuardianDen jødiske familie Camondo fra Konstantinopel etablerede sig 1870’erne i Paris som bankfolk, filantroper og kunstsamlere, en fast bestanddel af belle époque-kultureliten, men blev med tiden mål for voldsom antisemitisme – ligesom Edmund de Waals slægtninge, familien Ephrussi, der boede i samme gade. Grev Moïse de Camondo skabte et spektakulært hus og fyldte det med kunst. Efter sønnen Nissims død i Første Verdenskrig blev huset testamenteret til den franske stat som museum for Nissim. Og så rykkede nazisterne ind.Da den verdenskendte britiske keramiker Edmund de Waal blev inviteret til at skabe en udstilling i Musée Nissim de Camondo, begyndte han at skrive breve til den afdøde greve: 58 breve med dybt personlige overvejelser om assimilation, melankoli, familie, kunst, historiens omskiftelser, skønhed og værdien af erindring.

Nach einer missglückten Razzia wird Lieutenant Philippe Bayard, ein junger und fürsorglicher Familienvater, von seiner Chefin Commissaire Monique Balcer zu einer Spezialaufgabe abkommandiert: Er soll die reiche Staatsanwältin Isabelle Monville beschützen, die nach einem überlebten Mordanschlag aus dem Krankenhaus entlassen wird. Was nach einer einfachen Aufgabe klingt, entpuppt sich jedoch schon bald als Gefahr für Leib und Leben, denn die Staatsanwältin möchte ihren immer noch frei herumlaufenden Attentäter zur Strecke bringen. Mit Unterstützung seines Kollegen Jean Martin und des Computerspezialisten Paul Zermiak machen sich der Polizist und die Staatsanwältin an diese lebensgefährliche Arbeit, die sie schon bald in eine Welt voller Betrug, Lügen und Korruption hineinzieht.