Leon-Paul Fargue

A masterwork of poetic urban observation, The Stroller of Paris is Léon-Paul Fargue's luminous love letter to the city he wandered, savored, and immortalised in prose. Long unavailable in English, this book opens the door to a Paris now spectral and half-forgotten—where the boulevards echoed with café banter, jazz and politics collided in salons, and the ghosts of Baudelaire and...