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Book of the Week: Graham Robb - Parisians

Book of the Week: Graham Robb - Parisians: Episode 5

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Graham Robb - Parisians

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For years, the French capital was the most dangerous of cities for General de Gaulle.

For years, the French capital was the most dangerous of cities for General de Gaulle. Narrated by Stephen Boxer.

"The idea was to create a kind of mini Human Comedy of Paris, in which the history of the city would be illumined by the real experiences of its inhabitants."

So says the author Graham Robb about his new book 'Parisians'. And a whole host of characters walk, scuttle jump, run and flounce across his pages, beginning with the French Revolution and ending in more current times. These inhabitants are natives and visitors, and it is the likes of Charles Axel Guillaumot, Marie Antoinette, Alexandrine Zola, Adolf Hitler and Charles de Gaulle who lighten and darken the city's streets 
in five episodes for BOOK OF THE WEEK. The series narrator is Stephen Boxer.

In this final episode, we witness gunshots at Notre Dame, which heralds decades of danger for
a new French leader... Reader Stephen Boxer.

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Stephen Boxer reads from Graham Robb's new book about Paris and its famous dwellers

Stephen Boxer reads from Graham Robb's new book about Paris and its famous dwellers and visitors

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