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Flâneuse: Women Who Walk the Cities

Julianna Jennings

Lauren Elkin

Penny Leicester

Duncan Minshull

Flâneuse: Women Who Walk the Cities by Lauren Elkin: 3. Paris

Flaneuse - Women Who Walk the Cities

3. Paris

Flâneuse: Women Who Walk the Cities by Lauren Elkin

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Author Lauren Elkin strolls the streets, thinking about distinguished women who walked.

Author Lauren Elkin treads the cobblestones of Paris with the remarkable George Sand. Read by Julianna Jennings.

Author Lauren Elkin strolls great cities, thinking about distinguished women who did the same.

She describes Paris, the great walking city. Beneath today's concrete lies cobblestones, which gets her thinking about an earlier age and the remarkable George Sand, who in the 1800's promenaded around in gentleman's clothes.

Read by Julianna Jennings.

Abridged by Penny Leicester.

Producer: Duncan Minshull

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2016.

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