Full name: True Pleasures: A Memoir of Women in Paris

Author: Lucinda Holdforth Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Travel, Non Fiction, Memoirs Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781553651291 1553651294

Meet the dazzling women of Paris: from Colette to Nancy Mitford; Marie Antoinette to Coco Chanel; Madame de Stael to Pamela Harriman; Napoleon's Josephine to Edith Wharton. Rule-breakers and style-setters, demimondes and diplomats, these women were utterly diverse, yet all shared one common passion -- Paris, the world's headquarters of femininity. At a turning point in her life, Lucinda Holdforth journeys to Paris and takes a very personal tour through the lives, loves, and losses of its celebrated women. She evokes the city's incarnations from Louis XIV through the French Revolution, two world wars and the Paris of the new millennium. As she walks in their footsteps, she draws inspiration from the fascinating women who created and nurtured the world's most civilized city. Sophisticated, witty, and intelligent, this entrancing travelogue will seduce and inspire every woman in search of her own true pleasures. Similar books: Paris Letters by Janice MacLeod Paris in the Fifties by Stanley Karnow Almost French by Sarah Turnbull Paris, My Sweet by Amy Thomas Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik The Only Street in Paris by Elaine Sciolino Paris in Love by Eloisa James A Paris Year by Janice MacLeod L'Appart by David Lebovitz We'll Always Have Paris by John Baxter Time Was Soft There by Jeremy Mercer A Passion for Paris by David Downie Our Paris by Edmund White Mastering the Art of French Eating by Ann Mah The Piano Shop on the Left Bank by Thad Carhart Little Princes by Conor Grennan Hiking Through by Paul Stutzman Kabul Beauty School by Deborah Rodriguez The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street by Helene Hanff Dispatches from Pluto by Richard Grant