Parisians

<p><b>No one knows a city like the people who live there – so who better to relate the history of Paris than its inhabitants through the ages? </b><br><br>Taking us from 1750 to the new millennium, Graham Robb's <i>Parisians</i> is at once a book to read from cover to cover, to lose yourself in, to dip in and out of at leisure, and a book to return to again and again – rather like the city itself, in fact.<br><br>For this collection of true stories the City of Paris awarded Graham the Medal of the City of Paris.<br><br><b> 'Quirky, amused and très British' Julian Barnes, author of <i>The Sense of an Ending</i>.</b></p>