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Title: The Only Street in Paris
Subtitle: Life on the Rue Des Martyrs
Author: Elaine Sciolino
Narrator: Elaine Sciolino
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs
Language: English
Release date: 11-24-15
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 397 votes
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs
Publisher's Summary:
Elaine Sciolino, the former Paris bureau chief of The New York Times, invites us on a tour of her favorite Parisian street, offering an homage to street life and the pleasures of Parisian living. While many cities suffer from the leveling effects of globalization, the rue des Martyrs maintains its distinct allure. On this street, the patron saint of France was beheaded and the Jesuits took their first vows. It was here that Edgar Degas and Pierre-Auguste Renoir painted circus acrobats, Emile Zola situated a lesbian dinner club in his novel Nana, and François Truffaut filmed scenes from The 400 Blows. Sciolino reveals the charms and idiosyncrasies of this street and its longtime residents - the Tunisian greengrocer, the husband-and-wife cheesemongers, the showman who's been running a transvestite cabaret for more than half a century, the owner of a 100-year-old bookstore, the woman who repairs 18th-century mercury barometers - bringing Paris alive in all of its unique majesty. The Only Street in Paris will make listeners hungry for Paris, for cheese and wine, and for the kind of street life that is all too quickly disappearing.
Critic Reviews:
"The atmosphere on rue des Martyrs is refreshing and enticing in our modern world." (Library Journal)
