From the Book - 1st rev. ed.
Paris places. It's the water : the Seine ; A day in the park : the Luxembourg Gardens ; A lively city of the dead : Père-Lachaise Cemetery ; François's follies : building afresh in a museum city ; Island in the Seine : Île Saint-Louis ; Montsouris and buttes-Chaumont : the art of the faux ; Going underground ; Place des Vosges ; Belly ache : Les Halles redux (again) ; Hit the road, Jacques
Paris people. coco Chanel ; Les bouquinistes ; Midnight, Montmartre, and Modigliani ; The boat people of the Seine ; Meeting Moreau ; The perils of Pompidou ; Keepers of the craft : Paris artisans ; Dear dead Vincent van Gogh ; Beaumarchais's Marais ; Madame X's Seduction School
Paris phenomena. In the spring ; La Ville Lumière = Paris, City of Light ; Of cobbles, bikes, and bobos ; Philosophy au lait ; Sidewalk sundae : what makes Paris Paris ; Vie de chien = a dog's life ; Why the Marais changed its spots ; Night walking ; Grave situations ; The Janus City, or, Why the year 1900 lives on ; Life's a café.