Paris - Places And History - Ercole Pozzoli Milena

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Résumé :
In a famous poem Victor Hugo asked what humanity would lose should one day the voice of Paris be stilled. No one could seriously imagine a world without Paris, a city of dreams, a focus for all our desires. At least once in a lifetime we should all see this shining, generous "ville lumière", this legendary, eternal city. As Hemingway said it is part of man's education, an introduction to life. Allow yourself to be seduced, enchanted and embraced by its boundless beauty. This is a city that has never spared any expense in maintaining its own reputation and history. To celebrate the centenary of the French revolution it built the Eiffel tower. linking his name with the most controversial architectural project in the capital's history, Pompidou sponsored the bizarre Beaubourg. in his turn Mitterrand lent his support to the great white arch of the Défense project and celebrated the bicentenary of the Louvre by inaugurating a new wing of the museum pierced by the tip of a glass pyramid. The continual evolution in which Paris confidently blends past, present and future is a means of gathering memories, spectres and hopes and of restating its role as the eternal queen and lover.

Biographie:
Milena Ercole Pozzoli was born at Asti and now lives in Milan. She graduated in Modern Literature from the University of Turin and has worked as a reader at the University of Grenoble. For twenty years she has worked as a freelance journalist and publicist with the most important gastronomy and tourism periodicals, publishing features and photos. She is the author of numerous tourist guides (Budapest, Paris, Le vie del Vino, Olanda e Belgio), and handled the Bourgogne and the Centre-Val-De-Loire advertising campaigns for the Italian market. She also wrote Châteaux of the Loire in this series.