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# Paris: The Novel

**Brand:** edward rutherfurd
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- **What is this?** Paris: The Novel by edward rutherfurd
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## Customer Reviews

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    I loved all the history and the obvious research that went ...
  

*by S***N on Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2016*

I have very mixed feelings about this book.  I loved all the history and the obvious research that went into putting this story together.  I also liked the characters.  What I found difficult to like was the length of the book combined with the constant jumping back and forth through time.  The book is not a page-turner in my opinion, which meant it took me a long time to read the 800+ pages.  This in turn made it difficult to keep track of the many characters because each chapter starts at a different point in history - sometimes jumping hundreds of years back and forth.  Overall I am glad I read this book, however, I am not sure I would undertake another book by this author if it follows the same format.  I think it would be better to follow time in order and get rid of the back-and-forth.

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    Following Characters from Different Social Classes is an Interesting Way to Look at the History of Paris
  

*by N***N on Reviewed in the United States on March 12, 2015*

Edward Rutherfurd’s novel, simply named Paris, is in the genre of historical fiction and as such it is engrossing and gives an intimate view of the sweep of Paris history from Roman times up to the post World War II era of Charles de Gaulle. If you are impatient with anything less than the completely factual, then Edward Rutherfurd is not the writer for you. I will caution you, however, that totally factual history is a dry business indeed and even nonfiction/textbook history cannot really avoid the personal interpretations of the historian. It is difficult to know if there is such a beast as totally objective history. Of course, it is all relative. Some history is more fact-based, some is more anecdotal.In the case of his tome entitled Paris: A Novel, Edward Rutherfurd gives us a number of families from various social groups within Paris society and shows the interactions of these groups, mostly within the confines of Paris. We have the de Cynge family, aristocrats and monarchists. We have the Le Sourds who are leftists (communists) and therefore at odds with the de Cynge family. We have the middle class represented by the Renards (Fox) and the Blanchards. Some Renards are lawyers. The Blanchards are doctors and some run retail or wholesale establishments. The Gascons are poor working class people and they have one family member who walks the line between legal and illegal activities frequently crossing over in each direction.We have the poets and sculptors (especially Monsieur Bartholdi (Statue of Liberty) and Monsieur Eiffel ( Eiffel Tower). Thomas Gascon does skilled labor on each of these enormous structures. We have the painters (especially the Impressionists) and the writers (Proust, Hemingway).The city itself is a star of the book with its various neighborhoods which eventually become the arrondissements we know today. It took centuries for Paris to coalesce into its modern romantic, atmospheric incarnation and we get to traipse through the various stages of its transformations as we follow our characters and their ancestors, flashing back and forth from fairly contemporary Paris to ages past, as experienced by the ancestors of our more modern characters. It’s a personal and yet fairly in-depth tour of Parisian history that is not in the least pedantic.I kept trying to stop reading this book – not because it was a bad book - but because I knew it would be long. I kept thinking I wanted to read something shorter and quicker, but I could not stop. I just kept getting sucked in to Paris until suddenly I was done and I didn’t really want to leave. I wanted to be taken out to a bistro. I guess Edward Rutherfurd captured exactly what we should know about social interactions among Parisians and that is why people read his books, especially his books about famous cities (Russka, London, New York).

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    Paris by Edward Rutherford - Fiction based on historical facts.
  

*by J***S on Reviewed in the United States on July 21, 2017*

I have read all of Edward Rutherford books and I just love them all. You learn all about the history of the city and region while getting engrossed in the trials and tribulations of different families. I learned the history of the Statue of Liberty and the Eiffel Tower as well as how people lived during the different ages. Fascinating reading. Once you start its hard to put the book down.If you loved Rutherford's other books then you will love Paris.

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