The Streets of Paris

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From the author of Hidden Gardens of Paris, The Streets of Paris is Susan Cahill's wonderfully unique guide to present-day Paris following in the footsteps of famous Parisians through the last 800 years.
For hundreds of years, the City of Light has set the stage for larger-than-life characters—from medieval lovers Héloïse and Abelard to the defiant King Henri IV to the brilliant scientist Madame Curie, beloved chanteuse Edith Piaf, and the writer Colette. In this beautifully illustrated book, Susan Cahill recounts the lives of twenty-two famous Parisians and then takes you through the seductive streets of Paris to the quartiers where they lived and worked: their homes, the scenes of their greatest triumphs and tragedies, their favorite cafes, bars, and restaurants, and the off-the-beaten-track places where they found inspiration and love.
From Sainte-Chapelle on the Ile de la Cite to the cemetery Pere Lachaise to Montmartre and the…

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Никита Черняковhas quoted2 years ago
Louis had always been terrified of his mother, Blanche of Castile, who in turn taught him to be terrified of the devil who was everywhere. To protect his soul and safeguard his salvation, he wore a hair shirt, day and night, heard many masses, genuflected fifty times a night at bedtime, got out of bed at midnight to recite the matins part of the Divine Office, fasted and mortified his body to the effect of unhealthy thinness and a stooped posture.
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Никита Черняковhas quoted2 years ago
The biblical stories contained in the windows—the childhood of Christ, the Passion of Christ, Saint John the Baptist, the Hebrew prophets Judith and Esther, the stories of Genesis and Exodus, in all 1,100 scenes from the Old and New Testaments—make visual the sources that aroused King Louis IX’s religious passion. In the sunlight, you can read the plots and characters of the stories—including one about Louis himself, in the last window on the right, dressed as a penitent, carrying the sacred relics on foot to Paris—and come to understand or at least visualize the myths and miracles fueling the faith of medieval Catholic Europe. Statues of the twelve apostles, Christianity’s founding fathers, surround the nave.
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Никита Черняковhas quoted2 years ago
The walls of stained-glass windows blaze with gloriously rich sparkling colors. The colored light flooding the chapel, falling in gorgeous fragments on the chapel floor, leaves you without words. The blue has a mystical intensity. Medieval blue it’s called, evoking a harmonious mystical universe. The rose window, as you turn to look up at it, you face what seems a soaring variation on or perhaps the final explosion of the miracles that inspired this architecture. The colors express a faith so joyful and sure it seems to pulse in another world.
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