In a starred review, Publishers Weekly raves, "Chef and TV personality Julia Child likely would have delighted in and hooted over this wide-ranging picture-book biography.... Readers young and old will devour this fete pour les yeux ."
Follow Julia Child—chef, author, and television personality—from her childhood in Pasadena, California, to her life as a spy in WWII, to the cooking classes she took in Paris, to the publication of Mastering the Art of French Cooking, to the funny moments of being a chef on TV. This is a comprehensive and enchanting picture book biography, told in many panels and jam-packed with lively, humorous, and child-friendly details. Young chefs and Julia Child fans will exclaim, "ooooh la la," about this book, which is as energetic and eccentric as the chef herself.

A richly illustrated overview of where to sample the best food and drink in the French capital. Tempting the eyes and enticing the palate, this gourmet tour of Paris provides a panoramic survey of the epicenter of gastronomy. Divided into three chapters, this book guides the reader from the temptations of "Decadent Paris", with its enticing wine cellars and jewel-toned macaroons, to favorite bistros and boulangeries in "Traditional Paris". "Contemporary Paris" celebrates the city’s most inventive and trendy venues and pays homage to its international offerings. Discover a gourmet lover’s Paris, where illustrious settings transport you to another era, and food in all its forms is as revered as the finest works of art.

Celebrity model Inès de la Fressange shares the well-kept secrets of how Parisian women maintain effortless glamour and a timeless allure. Inès de la Fressange—France’s icon of chic—shares her personal tips for living with style and charm, gleaned from decades in the fashion industry. She offers specific pointers on how to dress like a Parisian, including how to mix affordable basics with high-fashion touches, and how to accessorize. Her step-by-step do’s and don’ts are accompanied by fashion photography, and the book is personalized with her charming drawings. Inès also shares how to bring Parisian chic into your home, and how to insert your signature style into any space—even the office. The ultrachic volume is wrapped with a three-quarter-height removable jacket and features offset aquarelle paper and a ribbon page marker. Complete with her favorite addresses for finding the ultimate fashion and decorating items, this is a must-have for any woman who wants to add a touch of Paris to her own style.

At once cosmopolitan metropolis and venue for a pensive stroll, Moloch and emblem of the modern, Paris has been a source of inspiration for countless artists and writers down the ages. But not least it is the home and constant muse of a relatively young art: photography. Since the earliest days of the daguerreotype right up to our time, renowned photographers such as Joseph Nicéphore Niepce, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Doisneau, and Jeanloup Sieff have lived and worked in the city of lights. Over the years a love affair developed between Paris and photography, giving rise to a remarkable record of the metropolis and a telling history of a new art form. This volume takes the reader on numerous walks, camera in hand, through the streets of Paris. Atmospheric black-and-white photos, shot by great photographers over two centuries, reveal the dramatic and the tranquil, the historic and the everyday—in the capital’s parks and gardens, boulevards and backstreets, passages and arcades, bistros and nightclubs.

This self-published success is now an attractively packaged gift book for Francophiles determined to achieve that certain je ne sais quoi that all French women have. Have you ever wondered what everyday life is like inside a modern, aristocratic Parisian household? The French are notoriously secretive when it comes to their private lives, but Jennifer L. Scott’s Lessons from Madame Chic uncovers the very secrets and lifestyle traits that allow Parisians to live such fulfilling and passionate lives. Each chapter reveals a valuable lesson Jennifer learned while living behind Famille Chic’s doors in the exclusive sixteenth arrondissement in Paris. After the lesson is revealed, she provides tips for incorporating the lesson into your own life, no matter the size of your budget. Embracing the classically French aesthetic of quality over quantity, aspiring Parisiennes will learn to master the art of eating (deprive yourself not), dressing (the ten item wardrobe), grooming ( voilÀ Le No-Makeup Look), and living À la franÇaise . Beautifully packaged and illustrated throughout, this essential guide to French style is sure to top the wish lists of would-be jet-setters and women simply looking to add a little joie de vivre to their daily lives.

维利·罗尼的作品覆盖了整个20世纪。他是个很执著的人，从最初开始拍摄就伴随着并记录下巴黎人民为了更美好的生活而进行的奋斗。他的生活与这个他拍了80年的城市相互交织在一起，他比任何人都更有资格为巴黎几乎一个世纪以来的历史作证。 现今他的照片被世界各地的博物馆所收藏，同时也在世界各大都市如巴黎、纽约、东京、布宜诺斯艾利斯等地举办他个人的作品回顾展，展览于2007年第一次来到北京的首都博物馆。本次《世界摄影大师维利·罗尼眼中的巴黎75年》收录了大师一生的经典作品，是摄影爱好者的经典收藏。

一個”大城市VS.小人物”的故事:諸葛阿諾會在巴黎排三個鐘頭的隊看展覽.在巴黎抽咪道不怎麼好的妮娜小雪茄.他在巴黎和大家一起坐地下鐵;學大多數的巴黎人辦了支大哥大,他卻只是掏出來打給氣象台.他老是在巴黎發表對畢杭的柱子的看法;用點力推開夏耶飯門走進去.吃頓巴黎僅存的統法國家常菜.他也在巴黎談了場”還是結束了”的戀愛.巴黎,讓諸葛阿諾感覺自己處在一切事物的中心.諸葛阿愛巴黎.

作者以一位客居巴黎异乡人的经验描述出他眼中的巴黎，充满异国情调。从巴黎人的生活观、生活形态、作息、口头禅，到天气景致的变化，娓娓道来，随着时序变迁呈现出了不同色彩和律动感的巴黎风情。他经由一间坐落于塞纳河左岸的钢琴铺，揭开了巴黎人的神秘面纱。

《拱廊研究计划》是本雅明对巴黎19世纪城市景观的研究计划。在19世纪与20世纪现代性与资本主义是一个硬币的两面。“浪漫主义的反资本主义者”本雅明接受列宁所说“最后阶段”，相信资本主义的末世不远，萌生了通过研究巴黎拱廊这样一个大都市异化景观来研究19世纪下半叶“资本主义盛世”的计划，即《巴黎拱廊计划》。在这项研究完成之前本雅明自杀身亡，遗留下来的只有两篇提纲（1935年提纲与1939年提纲）和两篇关于泼德莱尔的论文。这些所有遗留的文字即是本书《巴黎，19世纪的首都》。虽然是一部未完成作品，但是没有人会怀疑其重要性。

《巴黎漂亮女生的秘密》内容简介：最重要的是健康的生活，这才是美丽的秘诀、“爱”是最好的化妆品、追求天然与精神之美、纯素食的100％有机生活、钟爱彩妆的巴黎女人披露美丽秘诀、均衡的饮食生活是美丽的秘诀、有张有弛，美丽的秘诀、巴黎姐妹真实的美容生活、喜欢充满原创感的化妆品、坚持合理运动与有机生活的达人。

本书收录《巴黎的忧郁》、《人造天堂》、《私人日记》三部作品，是波德莱尔的散文诗代表作。
波德莱尔是第一个把散文诗当作一种独立的形式并使之趋于完善的人，提出了他心目中散文诗的特征：“没有节奏和韵律而有音乐性，相当灵活，足以适应灵魂的充满激情的运动、梦幻的起伏和意识的惊厥。”
《巴黎的忧郁》仿佛“整条蛇”：“去掉一节椎骨吧，这支迂回曲折的幻想曲的两端会不费力地接上，把它剁成剁成的小块吧，您将看到每一块都可以独立存在。” 波德莱尔以描绘古代生活的奇特、别致的方式来描写现代生活，更确切地说，一种更抽象的现代生活。在《人造天堂》中，波德莱尔以一种抒情性的笔调绘声绘色地描绘了三种兴奋剂、麻醉剂或毒品——酒，印度大麻，鸦片的作用及其后果：它们并不能造成一个极乐世界，相反，通向的可能是万劫不复的地狱。

What makes fashionistas willing to pay a small fortune for a particular designer accessory? Why does a special occasion only become really special when a champagne cork pops? Why are diamonds the status symbol gemstone, instantly signifying wealth, power, and even emotional commitment? Writing with great elan, one of the foremost authorities on seventeenth-century French culture provides the answer to these and other fascinating questions in her account of how, at one glittering moment in history, the French under Louis XIV set the standards of sophistication, style, and glamour that still rule our lives today. Joan DeJean takes us back to the birth of haute cuisine, the first appearance of celebrity hairdressers, chic cafes, nightlife, and fashion in elegant dress that extended well beyond the limited confines of court circles. And Paris was the magical center -- the destination of travelers all across Europe. Full of wit, dash, and verve, The Essence of Style will delight fans of history and everybody who wonders about the elusive definition of good taste.

As the end of the 20th century approaches, many predict that it will mirror the 19th-century decline into decadence. The author of this text finds a closer analogy with the culture wars of France in the 1690s - the time of a battle of the books known as the Quarrel between the Ancients and Moderns. The book reassesses current culture wars from the perspective of that earlier fin de siecle, and re-reads the 17th century Quarrel from the vantage of 20th-century warring "ancients" and "moderns". In so doing, DeJean shows that a fin de siecle taking place in the shadow of culture wars can be more a source of constructive cultural revolution than of apocalyptic gloom and doom. Just as the first fin de siecle's battle of the books served as the spark which set off the Enlightenment, introducing radically new sexual and social politics which laid the groundwork for modernity, so current culture wars can result in radical, liberating changes, if we take an active stand against our own "ancients" who seek to stifle such reforms.

The concept of obscenity is an ancient one. But as Joan DeJean suggests, its modern form, the same version that today's politicians decry and savvy artists exploit, was invented in seventeenth-century France. The Reinvention of Obscenity casts a fresh light on the mythical link between sexual impropriety and things French. Exploring the complicity between censorship, print culture, and obscenity, DeJean argues that mass market printing and the first modern censorial machinery came into being at the very moment that obscenity was being reinvented - that is, transformed from a minor literary phenomenon into a threat to society. DeJean's principal case in this study is the career of Moliere, who cannily exploited the new link between indecency and female genitalia to found his career as a print author; the enormous scandal which followed his play L'ecole des femmes made him the first modern writer to have his sex life disected in the press. Keenly alert to parallels with the currency of obscenity in contemporary America, The Reinvention of Obscenity will concern not only scholars of French history, but anyone interested in the intertwined histories of sex, publishing, and censorship.

A critically acclaimed historian of France and French culture identifies the moment in modern history when informality and comfort first became priorities, causing a sudden transformation in the worlds of architecture and interior decoration that would last for centuries. Today it is difficult to imagine a living room without a sofa. When the first sofas on record were delivered in seventeenth-century France, the result was a radical reinvention of interior space. Symptomatic of a new age of casualness and comfort, the sofa ushered in an era known as the golden age of conversation; as the first piece of furniture designed for two, it was also considered an invitation to seduction. At the same moment came many other changes in interior space we now take for granted: private bedrooms, bathrooms, and the original living rooms. None of this could have happened without a colorful cast of visionaries--legendary architects, the first interior designers, and the women who shaped the tastes of two successive kings of France: Louis XIV's mistress the Marquise de Maintenon and Louis XV's mistress the Marquise de Pompadour. Their revolutionary ideas would have a direct influence on realms outside the home, from clothing to literature and gender relations, changing the way people lived and related to one another for the foreseeable future.

In this enchanting memoir, New Yorker writer Calvin Tomkins re-creates the privileged world of Gerald and Sara Murphy, two American originals who found themselves at the center of a charmed circle of artists and expatriate writers in France in the 1920s. Their home in Antibes, Villa America, served as a gathering place for Picasso and Léger as well as Hemingway and Fitzgerald, who used the glamorous couple as models for Dick and Nicole Diver in
Tender Is the Night. A bestseller when it first appeared in 1971, Living Well Is the Best Revenge features sixty-nine intimate photographs collected from the Murphys' family album, along with reproductions
of several of Gerald Murphy's remarkable paintings--canvases that predate Pop Art by forty years.
"Living Well Is the Best Revenge is
a superb little study, alive with an elegance very much the Murphys'," said Nancy Mitford. Critic Russell Lynes found the book to be "at once a sharp and charming evocation of an era and a cast, mostly delightful, surely famous, and usually talented, written with an elegant balance between tongue in cheek and sympathy."
This Modern Library edition includes Calvin Tomkins's new Introduction and a rewritten last chapter.

帕特里克•聚斯金德（1949－），德国近年来最受欢迎的作家之一。《香水:一个谋杀犯的故事(新版)》是有史以来最畅销的德文小说，它构思奇特，寓意深刻，1985年出版以来，始终高踞德国畅销书排行榜前列，已被译成30余种文字。根据小说改编拍摄的同名电影耗资5000万欧元，全球票房过亿，并获得"德国奥斯卡"——德国电影奖八项提名，且最终获得最佳摄影、美术、剪辑、音响在内的六项大奖。
格雷诺耶出生在巴黎最臭的鱼市上。他天生没有体味，而嗅觉却异常灵敏。长大后他成了巴黎一香水大师的学徒，从而也渐渐产生了用香水征服世界的野心。一天，他发现一少女的气味令人着迷，无意中杀死了该少女，并嗅光了她的体香。之后，他先后杀死了26个少女，萃取了她们的体味，并蒸馏出神奇的香水。当他的罪行败露，被押赴刑场时，他释放了一瓶奇特的香水……
Survivor, genius, perfumer, killer: this is Jean-Baptiste Grenouille. He is abandoned on the filthy streets of Paris as a child, but grows up to discover he has an extraordinary gift: a sense of smell more powerful than any other human's. Soon, he is creating the most sublime fragrances in all the city. Yet there is one odour he cannot capture. It is exquisite, magical: the scent of a young virgin. And to get it he must kill. And kill. And kill...