The name of every Parisian metro station tells a story. In
Metrostop Paris Gregor Dallas recounts a series of extraordinary
but true tales about the city as he leads his readers around the
metro. Both the armchair traveller and the visitor wil enjoy an
illuminating journey in the company of a compelling storyteller and
veteran of the city. The book includes visits to Paris catacombs at
Hell's Gate, the literary cafes and old jazz cellars of
Montparnasse and Saint-Germain-des-Pres and the seventeenth-century
alleys of the Marais, along with trips to the Palais-Royal at the
time of the Revolution and the world of opera during Claude
Debussy's lifetime. Through the eyes of the existentialist
philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, Dallas describes the German
occupation of Paris during the Second World War and the
intellectual wars that immediately followed. A visit to the
futuristic Cit de la Science at La Villette prompts the story of
the Marquis de Mores, the French cowboy and anti-semite, who was
eventually murdered by tribesmen of the Sahara Desert in 1896.
Outside the Jesuit church of Saint-Paul Dallas tells us about
Gabriel de Montgomery, forgotten ancestor of Montgomery of Alamein,
who accidentally killed his king just there and, after leading the
Protestant armies against Catherine de Medicis, was executed on the
Place de Greve. This exciting journey through time and space
concludes at the Pere Lachaise Cemetery with the unknown tale of
Oscar Wilde's strange involvement in the Dreyfus Affair, the
greatest legal scandal of all time.
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