Fiction set in Paris...

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• Teddybleads Posts: 6,814

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  23/09/10 - 13:45 #2

  Suite Francaise by Irène Némirovsky is about the flight from Paris before the nazi invasion.
  Down and Out in Paris and London, though it's not fiction.
  My favourite would be The Count of Monte Cristo but probably a bit long and a bit heavy for a weekend away.

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• Teddybleads Posts: 6,814

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  23/09/10 - 13:49 #3

  Old Geroit - Balzac... always makes me sad a but a good read.
  
  I'm sure there are lots more.

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• trinity2002 Posts: 16,059

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  23/09/10 - 13:54 #4

  Destiny by Sally Beauman. It's not set exclusively in Paris, but Paris does pay a big part of the story.

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• Teddybleads Posts: 6,814

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  23/09/10 - 14:01 #5

  I suppose there's Stendhal's Red And The Black. The second half of that is set in Paris but I think Dumas does it better.

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• tanstaafl Posts: 22,196

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  23/09/10 - 14:01 #6

  You could try one of the dozens and dozens of Simenon's Maigret books.

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  23/09/10 - 16:40 #7

  Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo; or the Hunchback of Notre Dame as it is more popularly known as.

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• ohglobbits Posts: 4,480

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  23/09/10 - 18:41 #8

  These are all oldish novels
  
  Arnold Bennett - The Old Wives Tale (tale of two sisters one of whom fled The Potteries for Paris where they reunite)
  
  Somerset Maugham - The Moon and the Sixpence (About a man who leaves his wife to live as an artist in Paris; seen as a fictionalised account of the life of Gauguin)
  
  A J Cronin - A Thing Of Beauty (also known as Crusader's Tomb, similar to the last novel except it involves a young man leaving his father to live as an artist in Paris)
  
  Jean Rhys - Good Morning Midnight (semi-autobiographical novel about a creole woman living in 1930s Paris)
  
  Henry Miller - Quiet Days in Clichy (stream of consciousness about an artist and his friend who inhabit a room in Paris)
  
  Georges Perec - Life: A User's Manual (portrait of a Paris apartment and its inhabitants)
  
  Zola L'Assommoir (The Dickens of Paris)

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• Nuts In May Posts: 1,616

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  23/09/10 - 18:48 #9

  Left Bank by Kate Muir.
  
  Darker chick-lit.

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• Elanor Posts: 13,326

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  23/09/10 - 19:00 #10

  I love reading books in the place where I'm on holiday. Bizarrely though, despite having been to Paris many times, I can't think of a single book I've read set in Paris!
  
  My mum loved Suite Francaise. She lived in Paris in the 60s and said the book really reminded her of the Paris she knew.
  
  Ooh, I've just remembered - I LOVED Julia Child's My Life In France. Not all of it is set in Paris, but the first half or so is, and it's very evocative of post-war Paris, and is very funny and easy to read.

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  23/09/10 - 20:15 #11

  Thanks everyone - some good ideas here.
  
  Off now to consult Amazon. Also going to the library tomorrow so will take a list

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• nethwen Posts: 23,374

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  24/09/10 - 01:17 #12

  Diamondl1fe wrote: »

  Thanks everyone - some good ideas here.
  
  Off now to consult Amazon. Also going to the library tomorrow so will take a list

  
  Enjoy yourself in Paris. It is a beautiful city.

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  25/09/10 - 21:41 #13

  The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy. Set in 1950s Paris.
  Or, Down and Out in Paris and London- George Orwell.

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