![]() ![]() ![]() Street-hawkers and boulevardiers, women dragging carts of vegetables or herring. The car argued its way through the traffic under the fifty-two Corinthian pillars and wide steps of the new Eglise de la Madeleine, then swung up Boulevard Malesherbes past the dome of Saint Augustin. I feel like I'm in the streets of Paris in the 1900s. In addition to the plot, which turns on high about midway through the book, the writing of Robertson is just beautiful. ![]() The book takes the reader from Paris high society to the pickpockets of Montmartre. ![]() And I thought I really didn't want to read about a woman during the Belle Epoque who starved in her Paris apartment, but the book jacket was misleading. It hints at the intolerably cold and hungry conditions she faces. The book jacket explains the main character Maud is a middle class English woman who goes to Paris to take art lessons. I picked up this book for obvious reasons, set in France, and I wasn't sure at first that I'd like it. ![]()
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