Award-winning biographer, historian, passionate Francophile and talented storyteller, G. Robb invites the reader to an educational journey through the centuries of Parisian history, from 1750 to the present day. The book is a series of fascinating short stories based on real events from the life of various residents of the French capital - world-famous celebrities and people completely unknown: adulterers, police officers, murderers, prostitutes, revolutionaries, poets, soldiers, spies. The background and the main character in them is Paris - a glorified city, which the author shows from unusual angles so that the reader can see it in a new way and rediscover it.