1913 Twenty Centuries of Paris by M.S.C. Smith, Second Printing – Scarce – SOLD

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1913 Twenty Centuries of Paris by M.S.C.  Published in New York by Thomas Y. Crowell Company publishers.

A solid copy of this scarce and fascinating book about the historical background of Paris. With illustrations, a map, and a folding map. This book has a lovely Art Nouveau design on the front cover, designed by Margaret Armstrong. Published nearly 100 years ago, this book is now long out of print and scarce.

Thick Octavo-sized hardcover panel; 400 pages of text all present and secure to binding.

 

 

From the Text: “To the tourist whose attention is not confined to the stock ‘sights’ of Paris the city streets offer a wide field of interest. They show the stranger within the walls the neatness of the people and the orderliness which manifests itself in the automatic formation of a ‘quene’ of would-be passengers on an omnibus or a ‘bateau mouche.’ They disclose little that looks like slums to the eye of a Londoner or a New Yorker, for dirt and sadness rather than congestion make slums, and the Poor Parisian looks clean and cheerful even when a hole in his ‘stocking’ has let all his savings escape. “History lurks at every corner of these streets. It commands attention to the imposing pile of Notre Dame, it piques curiosity by the palpably ancient turrets of the rue Hautefeuille. ..Paris charms the stranger…the great city of three million people, like all great cities, threatens to overcome the lonely traveler; then, at the seeming moment of destruction, she gives him the food he needs most – perhaps a glimpse of patriotic gayety in the street revels of the fourteenth of July, perhaps the cordial welcome that she has bestowed on students since Charlemagne’s day, perhaps the less personal appeal of the beauty of a wild dash of rain seen down the river against the western sky…The city is a record of the development of a people who have expressed themselves in words and in deeds, and by the more subtle methods of Art. The story is not ended, and as long as the writing goes on, vivid and alluring as the ‘Gallic spirit,’ can make it, so long t will be no lack of readers, of all nations, our own among the most eager.”

Contents include Paris – Earliest; Merovingian; Carlovingian; Capetians; Philip Augustus; St. Louis; Philip the Fair; Early Valois; Charles V; 100 Years’ War; Later 15th century; Renaissance; Reformation; Henry IV: Richelieu; Grand Monarque; Louis the Well-Beloved; Revolution; Napoleon; Lesser revolutions; Appendix; Index.

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