City of Light

A sparkling account of the nineteenth-century rebuilding of Paris as the most beautiful city in the world, as part of the stunning Landmark Library series.
''This really is an impressive book'' Sebastian Faulks.

''Brisk, vivid and unexpectedly stirring... No one writes as evocatively and entertainingly about Paris as Christiansen does'' Mail on Sunday.

''Every page is a pleasure, every building, e...