City of Light

This really is an impressive book -- Sebastian Faulks, Sunday Telegraph
A wonderful book, amazingly vivid... But also a truly original work of scholarship' -- Theodore Zeldin
Brisk, vivid and unexpectedly stirring... No one writes as evocatively and entertainingly about Paris as [Christiansen] does' * Mail on Sunday *
Every page is a pleasure, every building, every gas lamp brought shimmering to life... Don't board the Eurostar without a copy' * The Times *
A sparkling yet scholarly new book * Country Life *
Vivid, dramatic and tragic... If you are heading for Paris this summer be sure to put City of Light in your bag' * Sunday Times *
[An] elegant and gorgeously illustrated new book * Sunday Telegraph *
A beautifully produced compact book, written and put together with the rare combination of expertise and love * Engineering and Technology Magazine *
The photographs included in Christiansen's beautifully illustrated book [...] make all this vivid, as does his lively telling of the story... Christiansen's account is readable and engaging. He doesn't judge his subject' * The Oldie. *
Christiansen's brisk and lively account contains excursions into the qualities of the Paris Opera House (not part of Haussmann's plan) and late nineteenth-century French political history, but remains both learned and amusing * Tablet. *
A beautiful little book... A fascinating history of the time with many photographs and paintings' * Four Shires Magazine *
It is attention to such detail that makes this witty, erudite historical essay on Paris's Haussmann years such an evocative read * The Spectator *