Author David Downie knows Paris upside down and inside out.
He says in this podcast episode that Paris is a city that you can learn to understand with your feet. In fact, he calls himself a walkaholic.
I met him in the shade of a fig tree in a hidden park in the Marais to talk about his book “Paris, Paris”, walking in Paris, and the Philippe Auguste Wall.
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More info on David’s work via his official site here and find the book club book, Paris, Paris, here.
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David Downie made lectures on Paris Romanticism at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu2iAdbgOjc and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxHvh_YS3AU
Interesting lectures.