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A former New York Times Paris bureau chief explores the Louvre, offering an intimate journey of discovery and revelation.
The Louvre is the most famous museum in the world, attracting millions of visitors every year with its masterpieces. In Adventures in the Louvre, Elaine Sciolino immerses herself in this magical space and helps us fall in love with what was once a forbidding fortress.
Exploring galleries, basements, rooftops, and gardens, Sciolino demystifies the Louvre, introducing us to her favorite artworks, both legendary and overlooked, and to the people who are the museum’s lifeblood: the curators, the artisans producing frames and engravings, the builders overseeing restorations, the firefighters protecting the aging structure.
Blending investigative journalism, travelogue, history, and memoir, Sciolino walks her readers through the museum’s front gates and immerses them in its irresistible, engrossing world of beauty and culture. Adventures in the Louvre reveals the secrets of this grand monument of Paris and basks in its timeless, seductive power.
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Blending memoir, travelogue, and history, The Seine is a love letter to Paris and the river that determined its destiny. While many cities suffer from the leveling effects of globalization, the rue des Martyrs maintains its distinct allure. The Only Street in Paris will make readers hungry for Paris, and for the kind of street life that is all too quickly disappearing.
“Elaine Sciolino is a graceful, companionable writer.… [She] has laid one more beautiful and amusing wreath on the altar of the City of Light.” —Edmund White, New York Times “Sciolino’s sharply observed account serves as a testament to…Paris—the city of light, of literature, of life itself.” —The New Yorker
ASIN : B0D8RJQC3C
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
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Publication date : April 1, 2025
Language : English
File size : 40.7 MB
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 381 pages
ISBN-13 : 978-1324021414
Page Flip : Enabled
Best Sellers Rank: #82,961 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store) #2 in Museum Administration & Museology #3 in Museum Industry #10 in Museum Studies & Museology (Books)
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