Frank Fairfield
Street History
Paris: Biography of a City
By Colin Jones
Allen Lane The Penguin Press 642pp £25 order from our bookshop
The White Cities: Report From France 1925-39
By Joseph Roth
Granta Books 304pp £14.99 order from our bookshop
‘If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.’ The words, dripping with aching, hopeless nostalgia, are those of Ernest Hemingway, writing, in his shrunken, diminished decrepitude, of his youth in the city of light, when, with his first wife and first child, ‘we were very young and very happy’.
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