art historian Sandrine Voillet is your guide estuous history, immortal beauty and

of the most romantic city in the world. uiding 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, Honoré Daumier, Auguste Rodin.

Pablo Picasso, Josephine Baker, Jane Birkin and Christian Lacroix, among many others.

Surrounded by friends and fellow locals, Sandrine also explores today's Paris - a vibrant, multicultural city with a life force of its own. Treading the Haussmann boulevards, street markets and secret courtyards, she reveals what drives this most romantic, chic and elegant of cities.

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