City of Light: 10 (The Landmark Library) - Tapa dura

'If anyone could convert me to Haussmann it is Rupert Christiansen. His elegant extended essay is a love letter to a city in architectural revolution. Christiansen writes about the streets he clearly loves with wit and elan. Not a dud sentence. 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.

'Brisk, vivid and unexpectedly stirring ... No one writes as evocatively and entertainingly about Paris as [Christiansen] does' Mail on Sunday.

'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.