Paris: The Novel, Vol. 1

The City of Love. The City of Luxury. The City of Fear. The City of Fun. A gripping story about how a small Roman military settlement on muddy banks of the Seine miraculously turned into the City of Light — the epicenter of Western civilization. An exciting chronicle of many generations of five families whose destinies in Paris became intertwined in strange ways. Aristocrats tracing their lineage to the knights of Charlemagne, rebels who sparked the fire of the Great French Revolution, traders who lost everything during the reign of Louis XV and got rich again under Napoleon, commoners from Montmartre who built the Eiffel Tower and robbed the rich near the Moulin Rouge cabaret. A tale of love, betrayal, and family secrets — of the people who created Paris, a great center of world culture. A novel for anyone who has been to Paris and fallen in love with it. This book is for those who still have to visit there.