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AUTHOR OF THE NATIONAL BESTSELLERS "THE ONLY STREET IN PARIS" AND "THE SEINE"

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Columbia Global Center

Tuesday, January 10, 2017
10:00 AM 11:30 AM 10:00 11:30

Columbia Global Center 4 rue de la Chevreuse Paris France (map)

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Earlier Event: December 8

Reading - "The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue des Martyrs" Shakespeare & Co.

Later Event: March 7

The National Arts Club

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I’m thrilled to announce that @barnesandnoble has selected "The Seine" as its non-fiction pick for the month of October! I am honored to be mentioned alongside the other monthly picks by @adrian_mckinty @nicstone @jawhitebooks @jessk

I'm delighted to announce that the paperback of "The Seine" is out today!
It is a lot easier to experience France on-the-go with a paperback. Come walk with me along the Seine as we explore the sacred river whose identity springs from an a

The Île de Chatou, ten miles west of Paris, goes by a second name, Île des Impressionnistes; Renoir painted Luncheon of the Boating Party (pictured), his best-known work on the Seine, from the balcony of La Maison Fournaise on Île d

“All Parisians know instances of serenity and grace: crossing the Seine and looking to the left and the right and saying to themselves, ‘Ooh La!’” 
-- Cedric Klapisch, filmmaker

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#theriverthatmadeparis #seine #

Over two days in June 2017, Paris City Hall put on a show of thirty- three Olympic sports. Command central was the Pont Alexandre III, in the heart of touristic Paris. The most colorful event was a flotilla of hundreds of kayaks and canoes paddling f

The consensus among geographers and historians is that the Seine
stayed the Seine because of its aura of holiness. Its source was the site of
a temple and a place of pilgrimage dedicated to a healing goddess, even
before the Romans came and conquered

“I forgot everything I was running away from…on the edge of the Seine and the forest of Fontainebleau…. I felt completely different there, exclusively in love with navigating the river. I honor the river.”
– Stéphane

For four generations, the Fleury family has grown grapes in the Seine Valley. In 1894, Jean-Pierre Fleury’s grandfather Émile became the first farmer in the region to plant grafted pinot noir vines after an aphid-like parasite, accidenta