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And where can you find \u003cb\u003efascinating remnants of the city’s history of violent revolution, jazz music, and bold artistic movements\u003c\/b\u003e?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e From the reality of the city’s café culture and its literary luminaries, to some of its more curious landmarks, obscure events, and unusual inhabitants, \u003ci\u003eUntold Paris\u003c\/i\u003e will give the first-time visitor a vivid impression of the city and offer seasoned travelers \u003cb\u003ea new vision of the city they love\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The people, the \u003cb\u003equirks, peculiarities, charms, and eccentricities\u003c\/b\u003e; the history and secrets. 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James Joyce called the city “a lamp for lovers, hung in the wood of the world.”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the Middle Ages, Paris has drawn those who wish to experience the limits of love – intellectual, spiritual, carnal. In \u003ci\u003eOf Love and Paris, \u003c\/i\u003eJohn Baxter turns the spotlight on some of them, from the medieval troubadours who seduced court ladies with flowery verse to Man Ray, whose camera conferred immortality on his lover and model Kiki, and Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin, who turned their moans of sexual pleasure into music. The \u003ci\u003egrandes horizontales \u003c\/i\u003eof the \u003ci\u003ebelle epoque, \u003c\/i\u003eaccomplished technicians of eroticism who drew the rich and powerful of both sexes to Paris, had their modern incarnation in Gala, who left the bed she shared with poet Paul Éluard and painter Max Ernst to seduce the young Salvador Dalí.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLove in Paris, however, can take unexpected forms. Was the devotion to Marcel Proust of his housekeeper Céleste Albaret any less passionate than that of Anne Desclos to Jean Paulhan, for whom she composed “the strangest love letter any man ever received”—the notorious novel \u003ci\u003eStory of O, \u003c\/i\u003ethe predecessor of \u003ci\u003eFifty Shades of Grey\u003c\/i\u003e? 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