Monumental Paris - Hardcover

De Tocqueville, Aude

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0865652775 ISBN 13: 9780865652774

Publisher: The Vendome US, 2011

Synopsis

Monumental Paris presents breathtaking panoramic views of Paris’s famed monuments and historic sites, as well as little-known gems. Covering many fascinating styles and periods, it features the sprawling Louvre museum complex, imposing churches and abbeys, such as Notre Dame and St. Denis, tranquil parks and gardens, and royal palaces and extravagant mansions in the Marais. Straddling the swiftly flowing Seine, and spreading out beneath the heights of Montmartre and Montparnasse, Paris is an apt subject for the panoramic photographer, and in Hervé Champollion the City of Light has found a talented heir to Paris’s photographic tradition. Paris seamlessly melds old and new, the medieval Musée Cluny and Jean Nouvel’s extraordinary Fondation Cartier, the ancient Port-Royal Abbey, and the riotous 1920s Hispano-Moorish delirium of the Great Mosque. Champollion’s achingly beautiful photographs make it evident that Paris is far more than a collection of historic buildings, 19th-century cast-iron frame department stores, and public squares; its numerous parks, gardens, canals, and secret waterways make Paris one of the most verdant cities in Europe. Parisians are both urban and urbane, and Champollion uncovers unfrequented covered passages and cul-de-sacs, such as the Galerie Vivienne, still lined with unusual shops, linking the Palais Royal with Hausmann’s new ‘grand’ boulevards, or the enduring charm of Jazz Age brasseries: la Coupole, le Select, le Dôme and la Rotonde. The panoramic vision of Hervé Champollion makes age-old Paris young again.

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About the Author:

Hervé Champollion is a Paris-based photographer who has published books on Sicily, Greece, Scotland, Ireland, Jerusalem, Yemen, and Egypt. He is the great-grandnephew of Jean-François Champollion, the father of modern Egyptology. Aude de Tocqueville is the author of numerous books on French art and culture.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Vendome US
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0865652775
• ISBN 13: 9780865652774
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240