By John Baxter
For greater than a century, pilgrims from world wide looking romance and keenness have made their option to the town of sunshine. The seductive trap of Paris has lengthy been impossible to resist to fans, artists, epicureans, and connoisseurs of the great lifestyles. Globe-trotting movie critic and author John Baxter heard her siren track and was once bewitched. Now he deals readers a witty, audacious, scandalous behind-the-scenes expedition into the colourful all-night convey that's Paris -- interweaving his personal adventure of falling in love, with a delightfully salacious travel of the sultry Parisian corners such a lot guidebooks forget about: from the literary cafés of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and de Beauvoir to the brothels the place Dietrich and Duke Ellington held court docket, the place Salvador Dali sated his fantasies, and Edward VII saved a luxurious champagne tub for his favourite girls.
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