Galignani's New Paris Guide, for 1866
Author : A. and W. Galignani and Co
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Page : 746 pages
File Size : 28,15 MB
Release : 1866
Category : Paris (France)
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Author : A. and W. Galignani and Co
Publisher :
Page : 746 pages
File Size : 28,15 MB
Release : 1866
Category : Paris (France)
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Author : A. and W. Galignani and Co
Publisher :
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 24,98 MB
Release : 1866
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Author : A. and W. Galignani and Co
Publisher :
Page : 798 pages
File Size : 21,96 MB
Release : 1870
Category : Paris (France)
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Author : Elizabeth Mitchell
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 41,3 MB
Release : 2014-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0802192556
“Turns out that what you thought you knew about Lady Liberty is dead wrong. Learn the truth in this fascinating account.” —O, The Oprah Magazine The Statue of Liberty is one of the most recognizable monuments in the world, a powerful symbol of freedom and the American dream. For decades, the myth has persisted that the statue was a grand gift from France, but now Liberty’s Torch reveals how she was in fact the pet project of one quixotic and visionary French sculptor, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi. Bartholdi not only forged this 151-foot-tall colossus in a workshop in Paris and transported her across the ocean, but battled to raise money for the statue and make her a reality. A young sculptor inspired by a trip to Egypt where he saw the pyramids and Sphinx, he traveled to America, carrying with him the idea of a colossal statue of a woman. There he enlisted the help of notable people of the age—including Ulysses S. Grant, Joseph Pulitzer, Victor Hugo, Gustave Eiffel, and Thomas Edison—to help his scheme. He also came up with inventive ideas to raise money, including exhibiting the torch at the Philadelphia world’s fair and charging people to climb up inside. While the French and American governments dithered, Bartholdi made the statue a reality by his own entrepreneurship, vision, and determination. “By explaining Liberty’s tortured history and resurrecting Bartholdi’s indomitable spirit, Mitchell has done a great service. This is narrative history, well told. It is history that connects us to our past and—hopefully—to our future.” —Los Angeles Times
Author : Arthur Kingsley Porter
Publisher :
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 49,23 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Architecture, Medieval
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VOL. 1.
Author : Arthur Kingsley Porter
Publisher :
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 15,16 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Architecture
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Author :
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Page : 954 pages
File Size : 19,39 MB
Release : 1888
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Author : George Gordon King
Publisher :
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 35,70 MB
Release : 1885
Category : Engraving
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Author : Harvey Levenstein
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 30,4 MB
Release : 2000-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0226473791
For centuries, France has cast an extraordinary spell on travelers. Harvey Levenstein's Seductive Journey explains why so many Americans have visited it, and tells, in colorful detail, what they did when they got there. The result is a highly entertaining examination of the transformation of American attitudes toward French food, sex, and culture, as well as an absorbing exploration of changing notions of class, gender, race, and nationality. Levenstein begins in 1786, when Thomas Jefferson instructed young upper-class American men to travel overseas for self-improvement rather than debauchery. Inspired by these sentiments, many men crossed the Atlantic to develop "taste" and refinement. However, the introduction of the transatlantic steamship in the mid-nineteenth century opened France to people further down the class ladder. As the upper class distanced themselves from the lower-class travelers, tourism in search of culture gave way to the tourism of "conspicuous leisure," sex, and sensuality. Cultural tourism became identified with social-climbing upper-middle-class women. In the 1920s, prohibition in America and a new middle class intent on "having fun" helped make drunken sprees in Paris more enticing than trudging through the Louvre. Bitter outbursts of French anti-Americanism failed to jolt the American ideal of a sensual, happy-go-lucky France, full of joie de vivre. It remained Americans' favorite overseas destination. From Fragonard to foie gras, the delicious details of this story of how American visitors to France responded to changing notions of leisure and blazed the trail for modern mass tourism makes for delightful, thought-provoking reading. "...a thoroughly readable and highly likable book."—Deirdre Blair, New York Times Book Review
Author : Galignani, firm, publishers, Paris
Publisher :
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 11,46 MB
Release : 1868
Category : Paris (France)
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