By Edmund White
A flaneur is a stroller, a loiterer, an individual who ambles via urban streets looking for experience and success. Edmund White, who lived in Paris for 16 years, wanders throughout the streets and avenues and alongside the quays, into components of Paris almost unknown to viewers and certainly to many Parisians. within the palms of the discovered White, a stroll via Paris is either a travel of its lush, occasionally prurient historical past, and an evocation of the city's spirit.
The Flaneur leads us to bookshops and boutiques, monuments and palaces, giving us a glimpse the internal human drama. alongside the best way we research every thing from the most recent debates between French lawmakers to the juicy information of Colette's life.
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