Swapping his native San Francisco for the City of Light travel writer David Downie arrived in Paris in 1986 on a one-way ticket his head full of romantic notions. Curiosity and the legs of a cross-country runner propelled him daily from an unheated seventh-floor walk-up garret near the Champs-?lys?es to the old Montmartre haunts of the doomed painter Modigliani the tombs of P?re-Lachaise cemetery the luxuriant alleys of the Luxembourg Gardens and the aristocratic ?le Saint-Louis midstream in the Seine.
Downie wound up living in the chic Marais district married to the Paris-born American photographer Alison Harris an equally incurable walker and chronicler. Ten books and a quarter-century later he still spends several hours every day rambling through Paris and writing about the city he loves. An irreverent witty romp featuring thirty-one short prose sketches of people places and daily life Paris Paris: Journey into the City of Light ranges from the glamorous to the least-known corners and characters of the world?s favorite city.
