Parijs|Rudolph Chelminski|Time-Life Steden 9061822688

||boek: Parijs||Time-Life Steden

||door: Rudolph Chelminski

||taal: nl
||jaar: 1977
||druk: ?
||pag.: 200p
||opm.: hardcover|zo goed als nieuw|mét flap|beetje kleiner dan A4

||isbn: 90-6182-268-8
||code: 2:000429

--- Over het boek (foto 1): Parijs ---

Moving beyond the postcard views of Paris that typically define the city of lights , this volume offers a contemporary photographic tour that captures the spirit of today s Paris. There are the monuments, of course.

But there are also the streets, gardens, hotels, galleries, interiors, theaters, cafes.... each plays a role in this popular, lively, and historically chic city . Punctuated by an eclectic selection of quotes and anecdotes from such astute Parisian observers as Colette, Jean Cocteau, Henry Miller and Alain Ducasse, PARIS conjures up the mood and spirit that animates each quarter and turns each and every reader into a true Parisian.

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The Great Cities/Paris [2023-09-19]

The Great Cities/Paris is one of 25 volumes from the Time-Life book series The Great Cities. Published in the 1970s, this series portrays various aspects of numerous cities throughout the world. This volume describes the history, culture, landmarks, and people of The City of Light. Topics covered are those one would expect in a book about Paris: the Eiffel Tower, the Celtic tribesmen known as the Parisii, the Ile de la Cite, the Cathedral of Notre-Dame, King Clovis (king of the Franks who made Paris his capital), King Henri IV (the most popular of all French kings, according to the author), Pierre Abelard (a philosopher and theologian), the River Seine, the differences between the Right Bank and the Left Bank of Paris, Saint Genevieve (the patron saint of Paris), the catacombs of Paris, the tomb of Napoleon, King Philipp-Auguste and the paving of the streets of Paris, the destruction of the Bastille during the French Revolution, the Arc de Triomphe, fine food and gastronomy, and Charles de Gaulle; the book also describes the characteristics of Parisians: they are quick, impatient, difficult, skeptical, unsentimental, sarcastic, and very smart. Numerous photographs supplement the narrative; photographer Raghubir Singh has done a good job of capturing the people and places of Paris. Author Rudolph Chelminski concludes the book with a consideration of what Parisians truly value: food, love, amusement, children, and the creation and contemplation of beauty.

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there are better books out there [2012-03-26]

This is a TimeLife book, so buyer beware, it is what it is. There are far far worse books on Paris out there. This one is just tedious, the pictures aren't great, and like so many books, it is pretty much, once again, the over-visited same old same old, and the pictures, printing, and overall execution do not make this tome worthy of the coffee table. The nightstand, ..... ?.... "Yes!", absolutely!, which is way above the "qualifies for the loo" rating I'll give another book. In other words, skip it unless you are both familiar with the standards for TimeLife books, i.e., about 30% of them are worth it (WWII happens to be excellent!) and a glutton for punishment; there are better books out there.

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Describes and pictures famous buildings and sites in the city of lights and recounts Paris's history, cultural importance, and life style.

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[2023-07-15]

Another volume in the by now vintage Time-Life Great Cities series, beautifully printed and bound, in a large size with lots of visuals and a nice map of the important landmarks. A bit differently, the author has treated here substantially of the life and psychology of the common citizens of this fabulous world capital, and he makes no bones about their less than ideal characteristics: somewhat cantankerous, not very forthcoming, and somewhat suspicious of strangers. But this also gives the visitor or immigrant a handle on what to expect and how to get behind the forbidding shell the Parisians put on. The author seems to be a great food buff, and his descriptions show that this is a meat-eaters' paradise, but somewhat gross for a vegetarian like us in the sub-continent. An added point of interest to me is that the photographer is Raghubir Singh, a fellow- Indian, and the photographs bring out the mood of the urban environment nicely.

Dilip-Kumar [source: https--www.librarything.com/work/1772646]

Here is (part of) a list of the volumes in The Great Cities Series of Time-Life:

The Great Cities: Berlin - Frederic V. Grunfeld (1846)
The Great Cities: Peking - David Bonavia (1972)
The Great Cities: Amsterdam - Hans Koning (1975)
The Great Cities: Bangkok - John Blofeld (1976)
The Great Cities: New York - Anthony Burgess (1976)
The Great Cities: Jerusalem - Colin Thubron (1976)
The Great Cities: Tokyo - Fosco Maraini (1976)
The Great Cities: Hong Kong - Robert S. Elegant (1977)
The Great Cities: Rio De Janeiro - Douglas Botting (1978)
The Great Cities: Vienna - David Pryce-Jones (1978)
The Great Cities: Athens - William Wyatt Davenport (1978)
The Great Cities: San Francisco - Geoffrey Moorhouse (1979)
The Great Cities: Mexico City - John Cottrell (1979)
The Great Cities: Bombay - Dom Moraes (1979)
The Great Cities: Cairo - Malise Ruthven (1980)
The Great Cities: Sydney - Peter Porter (1980)
The Great Cities: Prague - Geoffrey Moorhouse (1980)
The Great Cities: Munich - George Bailey

Moskou - Leo Gruliow (1893)
Rome - E. R. Chamberlin (1976)
Londen - Aubrey Menen (1976)
Venetië - Aubrey Menen (1976)
Parijs - Rudolph Chelminski (1977)
Dublin - Brendan Lehane (1978)
Istanbul - Colin Thubron (1978)

[source: https--www.librarything.com/nseries/16910/Time-Life-The-Great-Cities]

--- Over (foto 2): Rudolph Chelminski ---

Rudolph Chelminski has written articles for dozens of national magazines, ranging from People and Time to The Atlantic Monthly, and his prior books include The French at Table. He holds a degree from Harvard and has studied at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques. Raised in Connecticut, he began living in Europe more than thirty years ago, when Life magazine dispatched him to Paris.

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Chelminski, Rudolph 1934-

PERSONAL:

Born February 21, 1934, in Wilton, CT; son of Roman (an engineer) and Pauline Chelminski; married Brien Mutrux, December 29, 1966; children: Roman Michael, Stephane Aimee. Education: Harvard University, B.A., 1956; attended Institut d'Etudes Politiques, 1961-62.

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CAREER:

Rocky Mountain News, Denver, CO, worked as copy editor and general assignment reporter; Life, New York, NY, worked as reporter, correspondent from Paris, bureau chief in Moscow, U.S.S.R., and deputy bureau chief in Paris, France; freelance writer, 1972-. Military service: U.S. Army, Field Artillery, 1957-58; served in Korea.

MEMBER:

• American Society of Journalists and Authors.

WRITINGS:

NONFICTION

• Prisoner of Mao, Coward, McCann (New York, NY), 1973.
• Paris, Time-Life (Amsterdam, Netherlands), 1976.
• The French at Table: Why the French Know How to Eat Better than Any People on Earth and How They Have Gone about It, from the Gauls to Paul Bocuse, William Morrow (New York, NY), 1985.
• Superwreck: Amoco Cadiz: The Shipwreck that Had to Happen, William Morrow (New York, NY), 1987.
• The Perfectionist: Life and Death in Haute Cuisine (biography), Penguin Group (New York, NY), 2005.
• I'll Drink to That: Beaujolais and the French Peasant Who Made It the World's Most Popular Wine, Gotham Books (New York, NY), 2007.

Contributor to magazines.

SIDELIGHTS:

Rudolph Chelminski is an American journalist who has lived and worked in Paris for many years, sampling and often writing about the food he came to enjoy and the culinary artists who create it. His 2005 book, The Perfectionist: Life and Death in Haute Cuisine, is the biography of a remarkable French chef named Bernard Loiseau. Loiseau was a chef so sensitive to the opinions of critics that, ultimately, his very life depended on their approval. The chef developed a style so simple and minimal that "it also tended to be oddly ascetic and depressing," observed Adam Gopnik in his New Yorker review, but nevertheless, Loiseau's approach was unfamiliar enough to intrigue diners. Loiseau's goal was to restore the reputation of a small, out-of-the-way dining establishment called La Côte d'Or to its former status as a three-star restaurant of the prestigious Michelin Red Guide. He achieved his objective, but the chef's desperation to retain the three-star rating became an obsession. The Perfectionist describes Loiseau's life and his quest for perfection right up to 2003, when he committed suicide. Gopnik called the story of Bernard Loiseau "heartbreaking and instantly understandable." Regarding its author, he observed: "Chelminski knows the French food world intimately and has a moving story to tell." In the telling, Chelminski also provides an anecdotal history of contemporary French cooking and the role of the Michelin Guides as guardians of its standards. A contributor to Publishers Weekly called The Perfectionist "knowledgeable and breezily entertaining."

In I'll Drink to That: Beaujolais and the French Peasant Who Made It the World's Most Popular Wine, which Library Journal reviewer John Charles deemed a "deliciously amusing tale," Chelminski describes the rise in popularity of the humble Beaujolais. For centuries, farmers in the Beaujolais, a small region between Lyon and Mâcon, tended the gamay grape and made a local wine that, unlike most others, is best enjoyed when it is new. Beaujolais attracted little attention until the early 1950s when an entrepreneurial peasant, Georges Duboeuf, realized its potential and began aggressively marketing it. The wine quickly became a national and even international favorite, with each new vintage eagerly awaited. The story of Beaujolais, however, is much more than the story of a wine. As Chelminski explained in an interview in Into Wine, his subject is "the Beaujolais," a term that encompasses not only the wine but the region and its people and culture. "In my book," Chelminski noted, "I set out to depict the land, the people, the history, the traditions and folklore as well as the wine. And Beaujolais Nouveau is only one part of all this."

Critics welcomed I'll Drink to That as an enjoyable and informative account. A writer for Publishers Weekly described it as a "stylish history of French wine-making, and an unblushing tribute to Duboeuf's achievements." As a writer for Food Reference commented, the book "transports us to the unique corner of France where medieval history still echoes" in the struggle of small-holder farmers against the snobbish wine establishment.

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[source: https--www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/chelminski-rudolph-1934]