Meet the dazzling women of Paris: from Colette to Nancy Mitford; Marie Antoinette to Coco Chanel; Madame de Stael to Pamela Harriman; Napoleon’s Josephine to Edith Wharton. Rule-breakers and style-setters, demimondes and diplomats, these women were utterly diverse, yet all shared one common passion — Paris, the world’s headquarters of femininity.
At a turning point in her life, Lucinda Holdforth journeys to Paris and takes a very personal tour through the lives, loves, and losses of its celebrated women. She evokes the city’s incarnations from Louis XIV through the French Revolution, two world wars and the Paris of the new millennium. As she walks in their footsteps, she draws inspiration from the fascinating women who created and nurtured the world’s most civilized city. Sophisticated, witty, and intelligent, this entrancing travelogue will seduce and inspire every woman in search of her own true pleasures.
Lucinda is the author of three non-fiction works: Leading Lines: How to make speeches that seize the moment, advance the cause and lead the way (2019), True Pleasures: A Memoir of Women in Paris (2004) and Why Manners Matter: The Case for Civilised Behaviour in a Barbarous World (2007).
Learn more about Lucinda's work at her website, http://www.lucindaholdforth.com.
最初读这本书的契机,是当时正在看BBC拍摄的一部关于印象派画家的记录片,他们是当时真正点亮巴黎的男人们,所以看到这本书,很想看看点亮巴黎的女人们又是什么样的。但是很快我就失望了,这并不是一本我想要的关于巴黎的书,这是在自由与爱之外,关于欢愉,关于八卦,关于风月...
评分作者一边游玩巴黎一边品评巴黎的历代女性。如果你把这本书当做游览法国巴黎的指南书,你错了;作者无组织无计划地东写一点巴黎的建筑,西写一段巴黎破碎的景致,偶尔夹杂一点无病呻吟的想法,零零散散地,不成体系,不能当做旅游指南;如果你把这本书当做了解法国巴黎女人的历...
评分朋友送的,看封面和书名以为是那种发廊读物,所以一开始根本就没想过要翻。后来有一天出门前,发现包里没书,就临时抓了这本最近在咫尺的。 没想到内容是这么精彩,完全不是封面&书名&用纸的恶俗品位。相反,它更接近于通俗历史读物,类似于”巴黎交际花轶事”+...
评分最初读这本书的契机,是当时正在看BBC拍摄的一部关于印象派画家的记录片,他们是当时真正点亮巴黎的男人们,所以看到这本书,很想看看点亮巴黎的女人们又是什么样的。但是很快我就失望了,这并不是一本我想要的关于巴黎的书,这是在自由与爱之外,关于欢愉,关于八卦,关于风月...
评分——漫谈《爱、自由与欢愉》 巴黎有什么?有凯旋门,有埃菲尔铁塔,有雨果故居,有左岸文化,有香奈儿、还有第七区的荣军院。不,这还不够。如果巴黎只是由胜利、书香、浪漫、奢华、以及荣誉所构成,那么巴黎就不是欧洲之都。巴黎之所以是巴黎,是因为它不仅属于男人,更属于...
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