Paris book edward rutherfurd5/20/2023 ![]() He also swears by the little museums and the local historians. For Paris he used stories from his own family, but he also achieved the detail he is famous for by his usual methods of reading a lot of history and visiting the best historical museums. Rutherfurd finds his plots and human stories in research. Rutherfurd and Wayne Macauley are very different writers but they both said the exact same thing at their sessions – “You’ve got to love your characters”. ![]() Wearing a jaunty black beret he told his second sold-out session of the festival why he changed the structure – his publisher and he wanted to shorten the book. Most of the action is set it in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with the French Revolution dealt with in one chapter, but Rutherfurd still manages to get lots of facts into his richly detailed story. ![]() It’s less of an orderly progression through history than his others Paris alternates between the late 19th century and the eras before and after it. ![]() You may be relieved to know this is one of his shorter efforts – less than 800 pages and only spanning 700 years. Paris crosses centuries in the history of the city of light, following the fortunes of several families as they rise and fall through wars, revolutions, occupation, love and art. Edward Rutherfurd has known Paris well for most of his life and in his latest book he puts that knowledge to good use. ![]()
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