
The Only Street in Paris
Life on the Rue Des Martyrs
Failed to add items
Add to Cart failed.
Add to Wish List failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
$0.00 for first 30 days
Buy for $15.47
No default payment method selected.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
-
Narrated by:
-
Elaine Sciolino
-
By:
-
Elaine Sciolino
Elaine Sciolino, the former Paris bureau chief of The New York Times, invites us on a tour of her favorite Parisian street, offering an homage to street life and the pleasures of Parisian living. While many cities suffer from the leveling effects of globalization, the rue des Martyrs maintains its distinct allure. On this street, the patron saint of France was beheaded and the Jesuits took their first vows. It was here that Edgar Degas and Pierre-Auguste Renoir painted circus acrobats, Emile Zola situated a lesbian dinner club in his novel Nana, and François Truffaut filmed scenes from The 400 Blows. Sciolino reveals the charms and idiosyncrasies of this street and its longtime residents - the Tunisian greengrocer, the husband-and-wife cheesemongers, the showman who's been running a transvestite cabaret for more than half a century, the owner of a 100-year-old bookstore, the woman who repairs 18th-century mercury barometers - bringing Paris alive in all of its unique majesty. The Only Street in Paris will make listeners hungry for Paris, for cheese and wine, and for the kind of street life that is all too quickly disappearing.
©2016 Elaine Sciolino (P)2015 TantorListeners also enjoyed...




















Critic reviews
People who viewed this also viewed...


















Good book- marred by the reader
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Would you try another book from Elaine Sciolino and/or Elaine Sciolino?
maybeWhat didn’t you like about Elaine Sciolino’s performance?
This may have been really enjoyable but the reader/author was so hard to listen to that i stopped after a couple of chapters.The author is the reader
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
This book makes me long for a walk along the Rue Des Martyres!
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Elaine's story, Elaine's voice
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
A Magical Journey
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
It reminds of how people use to know everyone on their street. In this day and age people seem to hardly know the people they live with much less people on their street.
I will be visiting this street the next time in Paris.
Not just for Paris lovers.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I felt as if I knew
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?
Not really. This is after all a story of a street in Paris - which should hold a wealth of STORY - but alas - it may be due in part that its author is also its narrator - it's just not well conveyed or delivered.If you’ve listened to books by Elaine Sciolino before, how does this one compare?
I have not listened to Ms. Sciolino prior to this book.Would you be willing to try another one of Elaine Sciolino’s performances?
Doubtful.If this book were a movie would you go see it?
Perhaps.Any additional comments?
Shame really - Paris is filled with wonders!Not as Interesting as it Should Have Been
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
interesting information!
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Enjoyable journalist diary of time in Paris
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.