True Pleasures: A Memoir of Women in Paris

• Hardcover - 10 October, 2005 - Greystone Books
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• By: Lucinda Holdforth
• ISBN: 1553651294

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Reviews by readers

Inspiring, insightful review of Paris' most engaging women

I loved this book. It is part biography, part philosophy, part social analysis. I found insight and inspiration in every chapter, and historical figures about whom I knew little or nothing came vividly to life. Holdforth goes to Paris to shake up her system and determine a direction for her life, and by studying the lives of many famous Parisian women (born there or elsewhere), she does just that. If you love Paris, want to read about some fascinating women, or think there is more to womanhood than work, marriage or children, you'll enjoy this book a lot. (She also makes an excellent case for aging gracefully in Paris, and if I ever win the Lotto, that's exactly what I plan to do!)

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