Paris Underground

Author: Mark Ovenden
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN: 9780143116394
Category : Paris Metropolitan Area (France)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
'The Paris Métro is one of the most iconic transit systems in the world. Its classic art nouveau entrances, art deco candelabra, white-tiled stations and idiosyncratic maps are almost as recognizable city landmarks as the Tour Eiffel, Arc de Triomphe or the Louvre.' - MARK OVENDEN, from the Introduction Illustrated with more than 1,000 full-color maps, diagrams and photographs of the iconic Paris subway system PARIS UNDERGROUND is the essential graphic history of the magnificent Métro. PRAISE FOR Transit Maps of the World 'More than impressive. Ovenden does what no other design history book has ever done.' - The New York Times 'The perfect book . . . for urban transit freaks and fans.' - USA Today

Discover Paris by Metro

Author: Anne-Claire Ruel
Publisher: E/P/A Editions
ISBN: 9782812305528
Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A unique guide to the legendary Paris Métro that reveals, line by line, station by station, what to see and do to discover Paris like a Parisian.

Metro Stop Paris

Author: Gregor Dallas
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802719007
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Book Description
A history of Paris in twelve métro stops. Métro Stop Paris recounts the extraordinary and colorful history of the City of Light, by way of twelve Métro stops-a voyage across both space and time. At each stop a Parisian building, or street, or tomb or landmark sparks a story that holds particular significance for that area of the city. Dallas takes us to the jazz cellars and literary cafés of Montparnasse and Saint-Germain-des-Prés; the catacombs at Hell's Gate; and the Opéra during the days of Claude Debussy. A darker side of Paris emerges at the Trocadéro stop and a charitable side at the Gare du Nord, which highlights the work of Saint Vincent de Paul. Finally, our journey ends at Père-Lachaise cemetery with the little-known story of Oscar Wilde's curious involvement in the Dreyfus affair, one of France's greatest legal scandals. From Hell (the Denfert-Rochereau stop on the south side of the city) to Heaven (the Gare du Nord at the north end of Paris), Métro Stop Paris carries readers on a journey of the heart and mind. Métro Stop Paris is a thinker's guide to Paris made up of "slices of life," little vignettes drawn from Paris's two thousand years of history. Taken separately, these are charming historic tales about a city known and loved by many, but read as a whole Métro Stop Paris goes straight to the heart of what is quintessentially Parisian.

Paris Metro

Author: Wendell Steavenson
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0393356795
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
“A nuanced, engrossing novel about conviction and terrorism in a cosmopolitan, complicated world.”—National Book Review From the American invasion of Iraq in 2003 to the terrorist attacks in Paris in 2015, Paris Metro is a story of East meets West. Kit, a reporter, has spent several years after 9/11 living in the Middle East, working as a correspondent for an American newspaper. Along the way she falls in love and marries a charismatic Iraqi diplomat named Ahmed, before their separation leaves Kit raising their teenage son alone in Paris. But after the Charlie Hebdo attack occurs and, a few months later, terrorists storm the Bataclan, Kit’s core beliefs are shattered. The violence she had spent years covering abroad is now on her doorstep. As Kit struggles with her grief and confusion, she begins to mistrust those closest to her: her friends, her husband, even her own son.

The Paris Metro 40th Anniversary Issue

Author: Joel Stratte-McClure
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781535166485
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
The Paris Metro was a fortnightly, English-language magazine in France that published sixty-four issues between June 1976 and December 1978.Although time can diminish or exaggerate the past, there seems to be agreement that there was something special and unique about The Paris Metro - and the creative people associated with it.Published roughly in chronological order, these fifty anecdotes, memoirs, reflections and vignettes written in 2016 by former staff members, freelancers and readers of The Paris Metro provide a glimpse of the magazine's then-magical presence and now-mythical stature.The compilation provides some insight into the magazine's allure and includes scores of illustrations and extracts plucked from past issues. And photo spreads by two of the best photographers in Paris during the 1970s.

Art in Motion

Author: Anaël Pigeat
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 9781419761041
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 160

Book Description
A rich history and moving look at the accessible, immersive art embedded in the Paris subway system Submarine wall decorations, a ceramic declaration of human rights, a stained-glass red hen, a mosaic mouth, a Murano glass aedicule. The walls of the Paris Métro, adorned with works by French and foreign artists, have punctuated the underground travels of Parisians and tourists for over a century. In 1900, architect Hector Guimard created the subway entrances. His Art Nouveau style works embrace the notion of free art--accessible to all, flowing with movement, surprising, and ambitious. Today's subway system still champions this immersive cultural experience and artistic openness as evidenced by the 20 or so creations selected for Art in Motion. With concise and well-researched texts, Anaël Pigeat, introducing us to the artists and giving them a voice, explains their creative process, paying tribute to the work of the many craftsmen and craftswomen and their innovations, while highlighting the numerous constraints entailed by the subway environment. With a contemporary perspective by photographer Philippe Garcia, the book captures the works in their environment, then moves closer to show us the material and the artistic gestures. Each creation carries its own story and its own relationship to the underground: offering a reinterpretation of existing works or taking us down memory lane, they lead us into a dream-like world or fit in the framework of an international exchange, these works shine on and imperceptibly change our travels.

Metronome

Author: Lorànt Deutsch
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 125002367X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 318

Book Description
A phenomenal bestseller in France, Metronome presents a fascinating history of Paris through the lens of the city's iconic Metro system Did you know that the last Gallic warriors massacred by the Romans lie beneath the Eiffel Tower? That the remains of Paris's first cathedral are under a parking lot in the Fifth District? Metronome follows Loránt Deutsch, historian and lifelong Francophile, as he goes on a compelling journey through the ages, treating readers to Paris as they've never seen it before. Using twenty-one stops of the subway system as focal points—one per century—Deutsch shows, from the underground up, the unique, often violent, and always striking events that shaped one of the world's most romanticized city. Readers will find out which streets are hiding incredible historical treasures in plain sight; peer into forgotten nooks and crannies of the City of Lights and learn what used to be there; and discover that, however deeply buried, something always remains.

Moon Metro Paris

Author: D'Arcy Flueck
Publisher: Moon Travel
ISBN: 9781598801637
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 204

Book Description
Travelers will behold all this cosmopolitan destination contains in the sleek and innovative Moon Metro Paris. In this hip guide, Paris resident D'Arcy Flueck profiles the best of the city, combining selective listings of the hottest sights, shops, restaurants, amusements, and hotels with discreet, laminated, fold-out maps detailing the must-see neighborhoods. Dine on the Left Bank, climb up the Eiffel Tower, watch the sunset from outside the Sacre-Coeur, and see the sights such as the Arc de Triomphe, Musee D'Orsay, Louvre, and Notre-Dame. D'Arcy leads you to the city's top sights as well as the places only the locals know about. Clean, concise, and compact, Moon Metro Paris is the definitive guide to a city where chic neighborhoods cavort with bawdy boutiques, royal promenades collide with frenzied shopping streets, and people of all types create a constant foot traffic to a rhythm of city life that tugs at the heart.

Paris Metro Handbook

Author: Brian Hardy
Publisher: Capital Transport
ISBN: 9781854142122
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description

Paris To the Past

Author: Ina Caro
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0393343154
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
“I’d rather go to France with Ina Caro than with Henry Adams or Henry James.”—Newsweek In one of the most inventive travel books in years, Ina Caro invites readers on twenty-five one-day train trips that depart from Paris and transport us back through seven hundred years of French history. Whether taking us to Orléans to evoke the visions of Joan of Arc or to the Place de la Concorde to witness the beheading of Marie Antoinette, Caro animates history with her lush descriptions of architectural splendors and tales of court intrigue. “[An] enchanting travelogue” (Publishers Weekly), Paris to the Past has become one of the classic guidebooks of our time.