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    The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue Des Martyrs
    The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue Des Martyrs
    The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue Des Martyrs
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    The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue Des Martyrs

    Written by Elaine Sciolino

    Narrated by Elaine Sciolino

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    Elaine Sciolino, the former Paris bureau chief of the New York Times, invites us on a tour of her favorite Parisian street, offering an homage to street life and the pleasures of Parisian living. While many cities suffer from the leveling effects of globalization, the rue des Martyrs maintains its distinct allure. On this street, the patron saint of France was beheaded and the Jesuits took their first vows. It was here that Edgar Degas and Pierre-Auguste Renoir painted circus acrobats, Emile Zola situated a lesbian dinner club in his novel Nana, and François Truffaut filmed scenes from The 400 Blows. Sciolino reveals the charms and idiosyncrasies of this street and its longtime residents-the Tunisian greengrocer, the husband-and-wife cheesemongers, the showman who's been running a transvestite cabaret for more than half a century, the owner of a 100-year-old bookstore, the woman who repairs eighteenth-century mercury barometers-bringing Paris alive in all of its unique majesty. The Only Street in Paris will make listeners hungry for Paris, for cheese and wine, and for the kind of street life that is all too quickly disappearing.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateNov 24, 2015
    ISBN9781494588762
    The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue Des Martyrs
    Author

    Elaine Sciolino

    Elaine Sciolino is Paris Bureau Chief for The New York Times. She is also the author of The Outlaw State: Saddam Hussein's Quest for Power and the Gulf War Crisis.

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    • 5/5
      This book was part travel story, part sociology, part cultural studies, and part gossip and a thorough delight to read. It reminded me of the apartment we had rented in Paris for a brief stay just a couple of blocks from the rue de Martyrs which the book discussed. It made me want to go back, to stay longer, to learn French and to once again be in love with being in a foreign country, with unfamiliar people and a culture that I envy.
    • 4/5
      So did not want this book to end. Loved reading about this street which retains so many individual shop owners, many specializing in just one thing. The history of some of the buildings, meeting the shopkeepers, the history of the area and the delightful stores themselves. The books, famous writers, artists who once made this place their homes or mentioned them in their novels. The feel, the tone, the passion made me feel as if I was there. Definitely a place I would love to visit one day. Informative, entertaining and delightful.