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Secret Paris Guide: A guide to the unusual and unfamiliar (Secret Guides) (Jonglez Secret Guides) - Softcover

Jonglez, Thomas

 
9782361957650: Secret Paris Guide: A guide to the unusual and unfamiliar (Secret Guides) (Jonglez Secret Guides)

Synopsis

Let Secret Paris guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar.

Step off the beaten track with this fascinating Paris guide book, now in its 8th edition. Let our local experts show you the well-hidden treasures and hidden places of this amazing city. Featuring over 300 unusual and unfamiliar places, this Secret Paris guide is ideal for local inhabitants, curious visitors and armchair travellers alike.

  • Find winemaking firefighters
  • See a tree in a church
  • Explore an atomic bomb shelter under Gare de l'Est
  • Meet the patron saint of motorists
  • Uncover royal monograms hidden in the Louvre courtyard
  • Enjoy a pre-historic merry-go-round
  • Marvel at a sundial designed by Dali
  • Discover bullet holes at the minstry and war-wounded palm trees

For those who thought they knew Paris well, the city is still teeming with unusual and secret places that are easily accessible. An indispensable guide for those who thought they knew Paris or would like to discover the other face of the city.

Secret London - An unusual guide is the original and still the best of all the many alternative Paris guides: accept no imitation. Author and Parisian, Thomas Jonglez, has prowled the city streets, seeking out the hidden, eccentric and overlooked.

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About the Author

Thomas Jonglez was born and grew up in Paris. At the age of 22 he set out to discover the world, and spent most of 1992 backpacking around South America. Next he bought a one-way ticket to Beijing, from where he decided to make his way back to Paris overland - a trip that took him seven months. On his return, he tirelessly trawled the streets of Paris for material to write his first guidebook, which was published in 1996. After several years with the steel industry, he launched his publishing company in 2003. The first edition of Secret Paris came out in 2007. Ever since, he has regularly strolled around the capital, constantly surprised to discover new secret places in a city he thought he knew so well.

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