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The Companion Guide to Paris
1963 Harper & Row Publishing; First Edition Hardcover w/Dust Jacket (Sealed in Brodart)
- GenresTravel
320 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1963
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Vincent Cronin
59 books40 followersVincent Archibald Patrick Cronin FRSL (24 May 1924 – 25 January 2011) was a British historical, cultural, and biographical writer, best known for his biographies of Louis XIV, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, Catherine the Great, and Napoleon, as well as for his books on the Renaissance.
Cronin was born in Tredegar, Monmouthshire, to Scottish doctor and novelist, A. J. Cronin, and May Gibson, but moved to London at the age of two. He was educated at Ampleforth College, Harvard University, the Sorbonne, and Trinity College, Oxford, from which he graduated with honours in 1947, earning a degree in Literae Humaniores. During the Second World War, he served as a lieutenant in the British Army.
In 1949, he married Chantal de Rolland, and they had five children. The Cronins were long-time residents of London, Marbella, and Dragey, in Avranches, Normandy, where they lived at the Manoir de Brion.
Cronin was a recipient of the Richard Hillary Award, the W.H. Heinemann Award (1955), and the Rockefeller Foundation Award (1958). He also contributed to the Revue des Deux Mondes, was the first General Editor of the Companion Guides series, and was on the Council of the Royal Society of Literature.
He died at his home in Marbella on 25 January 2011.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent...
Cronin was born in Tredegar, Monmouthshire, to Scottish doctor and novelist, A. J. Cronin, and May Gibson, but moved to London at the age of two. He was educated at Ampleforth College, Harvard University, the Sorbonne, and Trinity College, Oxford, from which he graduated with honours in 1947, earning a degree in Literae Humaniores. During the Second World War, he served as a lieutenant in the British Army.
In 1949, he married Chantal de Rolland, and they had five children. The Cronins were long-time residents of London, Marbella, and Dragey, in Avranches, Normandy, where they lived at the Manoir de Brion.
Cronin was a recipient of the Richard Hillary Award, the W.H. Heinemann Award (1955), and the Rockefeller Foundation Award (1958). He also contributed to the Revue des Deux Mondes, was the first General Editor of the Companion Guides series, and was on the Council of the Royal Society of Literature.
He died at his home in Marbella on 25 January 2011.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent...
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August 18, 2012
This is the first published edition in a long and ongoing series of excellent travel guides that are written with the reader in mind, more perhaps, than the traveller. That is, they do not seek to guide the modern visitor to the places under scrutiny, but rather to take the reader who is perhaps proposing a visit or has been there in the past, deep into the old world of Europe and the British Isles, where these books are mainly concentrated. For someone who knows Paris, or thinks they do, this book will add another level of interest and understanding and is therefore, quite timeless in its conception. Definitely not for the quick traveller who wants to know what's what, today. But for those with time to spare and a deeper interest in the why and wherefore, a definite must.
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