{"product_id":"of-love-and-paris-historic-romantic-and-obsessive-liaisons-paperback","title":"Of Love and Paris: Historic, Romantic and Obsessive Liaisons - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn Baxter\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe French may not have invented love but they perfected it, and the laboratory in which they did so was Paris. James Joyce called the city \"a lamp for lovers, hung in the wood of the world.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e From the Middle Ages, Paris has drawn those who wish to experience the limits of love - intellectual, spiritual, carnal. In \u003ci\u003eOf Love and Paris, \u003c\/i\u003eJohn Baxter turns the spotlight on some of them, from the medieval troubadours who seduced court ladies with flowery verse to Man Ray, whose camera conferred immortality on his lover and model Kiki, and Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin, who turned their moans of sexual pleasure into music. The \u003ci\u003egrandes horizontales \u003c\/i\u003eof the \u003ci\u003ebelle epoque, \u003c\/i\u003eaccomplished technicians of eroticism who drew the rich and powerful of both sexes to Paris, had their modern incarnation in Gala, who left the bed she shared with poet Paul Éluard and painter Max Ernst to seduce the young Salvador Dalí. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Love in Paris, however, can take unexpected forms. Was the devotion to Marcel Proust of his housekeeper Céleste Albaret any less passionate than that of Anne Desclos to Jean Paulhan, for whom she composed \"the strangest love letter any man ever received\"--the notorious novel \u003ci\u003eStory of O, \u003c\/i\u003ethe predecessor of \u003ci\u003eFifty Shades of Grey\u003c\/i\u003e? Love has a multitude of faces, and some of the most mysterious and surprising are unveiled in \u003ci\u003eOf Love and Paris\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Baxter \u003c\/b\u003eis a writer, journalist, and filmmaker; he has called Paris home since 1989. He is the author of numerous books including the autobiographical \u003ci\u003eImmoveable Feast: A Paris Christmas, The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A Pedestrian in Paris, Chronicles of Old Paris: Exploring the Historic City of Light, The Golden Moments of Paris: A Guide to the Paris of the 1920s, \u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e French Riviera and Its Artists\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.71 x 7.95 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 18, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51764848066848,"sku":"9781940842721","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/e99c8288a4bf56269923b39a1b95b8d6.webp?v=1780256289","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/of-love-and-paris-historic-romantic-and-obsessive-liaisons-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}