Paris, with which you are definitely not familiar! The city of love, artists and poets, the capital of fashion and the cradle of the Great French Revolution, Paris, is ready for the reader its innermost secrets. Serge Ponte's book closely intertwines history and everyday life, the most important milestones of history and small events that have happened every day for more than a hundred years. Whether the royal wedding is replaced by a bloody Bartholomew's night, the musketeers rush to Vaugirard Street, whether outraged sans-culottes storm the Bastille, Paris always remains itself - it is in no hurry and always follows the latest fashion. The book is useful for both travelers and those who want to know their history better.