Joan DeJean’s “How Paris Became Paris” signed-copy – free book giveaway to subscribers!
03 Monday Mar 2014
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Subscribers, signed-copies of How Paris Became Paris: The Invention of the Modern City by acclaimed author Joan DeJean. Free book giveaway to two subscribers ends March 11, 2014.
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Joan DeJean is Trustee Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of nine books on French literature, history, and material culture, including most recently The Age of Comfort: When Paris Discovered Casual and the Modern Home Began and The Essence of Style: How the French Invented High Fashion, Fine Food, Chic Cafés, Style, Sophistication, and Glamour.
Paris has been known for its grand boulevards, magnificent river views, and endless shopping for longer than one might think. While Baron Haussmann is usually credited as being the architect of the Paris we know today, with his major redevelopment of the city in the 19th century, Joan DeJean reveals that the Parisian model for urban space was in fact invented two centuries earlier. In her new book, How Paris Became Paris: The Invention of the Modern City (March 4, 2014; Bloomsbury hardcover), DeJean uncovers that the first full design for the French capital was implemented in the 17th century, and with her characteristic verve and careful research fully brings to life a city in the midst of reinvention.
“Although 19th-century Baron Haussmann often receives credit for Paris’s iconic features, this witty and engaging work shows that it was the 17th-century Bourbon monarchs who first transformed Paris into the prototype of the modern city that would inspire the world… With panache and examples from primary sources, guidebooks, maps, and paintings, she illustrates how Paris changed people’s conception of a city’s potential.” — Publishers Weekly
“Illuminating… DeJean obviously knows and loves Paris, and she provides coherent history that effectively explains the evolution of a city built by a few prescient men.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“[An] engaging history of the growth of Paris into a modern city.” — Booklist
Joan DeJean is Trustee Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Joan DeJean is the author of nine books on French literature, history, and material culture, including most recently The Age of Comfort: When Paris Discovered Casual and the Modern Home Began and The Essence of Style: How the French Invented High Fashion, Fine Food, Chic Cafés, Style, Sophistication, and Glamour. She lives in Philadelphia and, when in Paris, on the street where the number 4 bus began service on July 5, 1662. For more information about Joan DeJean, visit: (Bloomsbury)(Purchase)
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8 comments
Sara H. said:
March 6, 2014 at 3:10 pm
I’d love to read this book. It sounds fascinating. I’m writing a fiction piece that’s based in Paris and this would be great information to have at hand.
Thank you for the opportunity!
Charmain said:
March 5, 2014 at 1:34 pm
This sounds so wonderful! I would love to read it. And a signed copy would be very special.
Thank you.
Valerie said:
March 3, 2014 at 9:19 am
Wow! How I would love to read this book! I didn’t realize at first she was the author of those other titles as well. Can you imagine how wonderful it would be to have built a career on studying Paris and it’s history? Quelle chance.
Marsi said:
March 3, 2014 at 8:49 am
Essence of Style is one of my favorite books about France, and so instructive as well. I learned so much from this book, and it was riveting to read.
Linda said:
March 3, 2014 at 6:42 am
This sounds like another of DeJean’s fascinting reads! I’d love to be the winner…
Mary Ann said:
March 3, 2014 at 6:19 am
Sounds like a book to read this year!
Meg Bortin said:
March 3, 2014 at 6:17 am
Hello Barbara. This is so interesting! I’m a subscriber and would like to be included in the free book giveaway if at all possible, i.e. if the fact of living in Paris doesn’t rule me out. All best, Meg
A Woman’s Paris™ said:
March 3, 2014 at 8:07 pm
Hello, Meg.
A Woman’s Paris’ student intern, Melissa, will pick two random numbers that will be used to select the two winners from our list of subscribers. Once subscribed, you will be eligible to win – no matter where you live worldwide. The free book giveaway ends March 11, 2014 at midnight Central Standard Time, U.S.A. The two winners will be announced online in A Woman’s Paris, Facebook and Twitter on March 12. Signed-copies will be sent directly from Bloomsbury, publisher of How Paris Became Paris by Joan DeJean.
In addition, each subscriber receives a free artist-created watercolor painting of Paris to use as a wallpaper background on their computer. (You can unsubscribe at anytime. We never sell or share member information.)
We wish all subscribers the best of luck! Coming Thursday, March 6: An excerpt from Joan DeJean’s new book How Paris Became Paris: The Invention of the Modern City (March 4, 2014; Bloomsbury hardcover).
Barbara Redmond
Publisher, A Woman’s Paris