New book by above title reviewed today in NYT. Looks interesting.

I posted the link in my Dordogne-Paris travel report earlier today...it does look very interesting!!

Here is the link..at the bottom of the report:



http://www.fodors.com/forums/threads...p;tid=34894706

Sounds like the author thinks sex sells. Which it usually does. I wonder how this compares to Alistair Horne's book or style, have you read any of his work? He writes a lot about fashion, regular life, etc., in his histories, also, but his book on Paris wasn't comprehensive over its entire history (The Seven Ages of Paris).

Has anyone read the new book by Jean-Benoit Nadeau called The Story of French? It's new in hardcover, also, and that sounds interesting to me because I am interested in language and the history of various languages. That book is about the history of the French language, although he wrote another book with opinions (he is French-Candian) on the culture and French people -- Sixty Million Frenchman Can't Be Wrong: Why We Love France but not the French (co-author Julie Barlow on both, I believe). Well, I haven't read that, but would like to get the language one.

I am just finishing a very good comprehensive book on the history of languages, by the way, by a Swedish guy -- Speak: A Short History of Languages by Tore Janson. This is out in paperback by Oxford U Press and is excellent (and not 600 pages).

I finished a new book:
"Parais Discovered exploration in the city of light."
by Mary Mcauliffe