An Insider's Guide Paris (DVD, 2007) BBC Sandrine Voillet Region 4

An Insider's Guide Paris (DVD, 2007).

BBC

Parisian art historian Sandrine Voillet is your guide

to the tempestuous history, immortal beauty and

bohemian soul of the most romantic city in the world.

Giuiding viewers through more than 800 years of Paris' history, Sandrine celebrates the art, revolutions and characters that have combined to create this spectacular "City of

Light". From the Renaissance to the French Revolution, from the construction of the Eiffel Tower to Mitterand's Grands Projects,

the city has borne witness to extraordinary people and events.

Sandrine explores the city's secrets: its bloodstained past,

treacherous plots and illicit love affairs. The lavish court of Louis

XVI during the sexual decadence of revolutionary* Paris; the

crazy years of the early 1900s, played out in the Moulin Rouge

and Folies Bergère; the jazz explosion of the

30s; and 60s hedonism, bring forward a cast of

extraordinary people inspired by the city, including

Marquise de Sévigné, Marquis de Sade, Voltaire,

Denis Diderot, Honor Daumier, Auguste Rodin,

Pablo Picasso, Josephine Baker, Jane Birkin and

Christian Lacroix, among many others.

Surrounded by friends and fellow locals, Sandrine also explores

tula's Paris - a vibrant, multicultural city with a life force of its

cnn. Treading the Haussmann boukwands, street markets and

secret coumards, she reveals what drives this most romantic, chic and elegant of cities.

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