The Historic Restaurants Of Paris

A Guide to Century-Old Cafes' Bistros and Gourmet Food Shops (City Secrets) - 2005

What a great little book this is. If you want to learn something really interesting about one of the food capitals of the world, there's no better way than to visit its historic restaurants. "The Historic Restaurants of Paris" provides a district by district inventory of the city's eateries that have figured, one way or the other, in its social, political and cultural history. Each listing includes establishments that are open on Sunday, those that sell items suitable for gifts, those with garden dining, and the author’s personal favorites.

Charming anecdotes relating to each shop and restaurant’s history and celebrated former patrons are an extra bonus.

The Sweet Life in Paris

Delicious Adventures in the World's Most Glorious--And Perplexing

This book is the perfect holiday reading book for a food lover. The Sweet Life in Paris is a deliciously funny, offbeat, and irreverent look at the city of lights, cheese, chocolate, and other confections written by David Lebovitz, a pastry chef.

It also include more than fifty original recipes, for dishes both savory and sweet, such as Pork Loin with Brown Sugar–Bourbon Glaze, Braised Turkey in Beaujolais Nouveau with Prunes, Bacon and Bleu Cheese Cake, Chocolate-Coconut Marshmallows, Chocolate Spice Bread, Lemon-Glazed Madeleines, and Mocha–Crème Fraîche Cake, to keep this book current long after it's initial reading.

Top 10 Books to read about Paris

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Parisians - An Adventure History of Paris

No one knows a city like the people who live there - so who better to relate the history of Paris than its inhabitants through the ages? Taking us from 1750 to the new millennium, Graham Robb's Parisians is at once a book to read from cover to cover, to lose yourself in, to dip in and out of at leisure, and a book to return to again and again - rather like the city itself, in fact.

Seven Ages of Paris: Portrait of a City

Alistair Horne takes you through a big story of Paris through seven ages of turmoil and change: the Middle Ages, the 100 years war, the Paris of Louis XIV, the age of Napoleon, the Commune, the Empire days of Louis-Napoleon and Eugenie, and the First World War and De Gaulle.

The Greater Journey Americans in Paris

The Greater Journey tells the remarkable story of the adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, and others who set off for Paris in the years between 1830 and 1900, hungry to learn and to excel in their work. They fell in love with the city and its people, and changed America through what they learned, told by America’s master historian, David McCullough.

How To Be Parisian

Wherever You Are

How To Be Parisian brilliantly deconstructs the French woman's views on culture, fashion and attitude.

These modern bohemian witty Parisiennes say what you don't expect to hear, just the way you want to hear it. They are not against smoking in bed, they will take you on a first date or to a party. They will tell you how to be mysterious and sensual, make your boyfriend jealous and they will tell you where to go at the end of the night, for a birthday, for a smart date, for vintage finds and much more.

Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong

What Makes the French So French?

The French drink, smoke and eat more fat than anyone in the world, yet they live longer and have fewer heart problems than the English and the Americans. They work 35-hour weeks and take seven weeks' paid holiday each year, yet they are the world's fourth-biggest economic power. So how do they do it?

'Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong' is a journey into the French heart, mind and soul.

Parisian Chic

A Style Guide by Ines de la Fressange

Celebrity model Ines de La Fressange shares the well-kept secrets of how Parisian women maintain effortless glamour and timeless allure. She offers her personal tips for living with style and charm, how to dress like a Parisian, including how to mix affordable basics with high-fashion touches, and how to accessorize.

It is complete with her favorite addresses for finding the ultimate fashion and decorating items in Paris.

French Women Don't Get Fat

The Secret of Eating for Pleasure Paperback

This is the book that every Woman between 25 and 75 has been waiting for. Classy, chic, convincing, funny, wise, well-written and very timely. It's the ultimate non-diet book, which nonetheless shows us how to eat with balance, control and above all pleasure. Chuck out all the radical diet books, think about what you eat and why, and then enjoy eating the right things  intelligently, and in smaller portions. Eat, like a French woman, with your head not your stomach.

Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life

Coco Chanel was an extraordinary inventor - she conjured up the little black dress, bobbed hair, trousers for women, contemporary chic, best-selling perfumes, and the most successful fashion brand of all time - but she also invented herself, fashioning the myth of her own life with the same dexterity as her couture.

While Chanel was supreme innovator and vendor of all things elegant and beautiful, what lies beneath her own glossy myth is far darker. Throwing new light on her passionate and turbulent relationships, this beautifully constructed portrait gives a fresh and penetrating look at how Coco Chanel made herself into her own most powerful creation.

Justine Picardie brings the mysterious Gabrielle Chanel out of hiding, to celebrate her great achievements. She examines Chanel's enduring afterlife, as well as her remarkable life, uncovering the consequences of what she covered up, unpicking the seams between truth and legend, yet keeping intact the real fabric of her past.

A Moveable Feast

A Moveable Feast brilliantly evokes the exuberant mood of Paris after World War I, a unique insight into a great literary generation, by Hemingway, one of the best American writers of the twentieth century.

You will fell in love with Paris, Hemingway and the Lost Generation all because of this book.

Forever Paris

25 Walks in the Footsteps of Chanel, Hemingway, Picasso,...

Take a stroll through Édith Piaf's Belleville, dine at Napoleon's favorite restaurant, and visit the late-night haunts of Ernest Hemingway, Josephine Baker, and Pablo Picasso. This walking adventure follows in the footsteps of more than 25 of the city's iconic former residents. It also include photos and full-color maps for you to explore.