Abounding in secluded, atmospheric parks, artists' studios, cafes,
restaurants and streets little changed since the 1800s, Paris
exudes romance. The art and architecture, the cityscape,
riverbanks, and the unparalleled quality of daily life are part of
the equation. But the city's allure derives equally from hidden
sources: querulous inhabitants, a bizarre culture of heroic
negativity, and a rich historical past supplying enigmas, pleasures
and challenges. Rarely do visitors suspect the glamour and chic and
the carefree atmosphere of the City of Light grew from and still
feed off the dark fountainheads of riot, rebellion, mayhem and
melancholy-and the subversive literature, art and music of the
Romantic Age. Weaving together his own with the lives and loves of
Victor Hugo, Georges Sand, Charles Baudelaire, Balzac, Nadar and
other great Romantics Downie delights in the city's secular
romantic pilgrimage sites asking, Why Paris, not Venice or Rome-the
tap root of "romance"-or Berlin, Vienna and London-where the
earliest Romantics built castles-in-the-air and sang odes to
nightingales? Read A Passion for Paris: Romanticism and Romance in
the City of Light and find out.
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