Despite being lazy though I've just listed a new book, The Travellers Handbook to Paris from 1937!
Along with the usual itineraries one gets in these travel guides it all has thirteen maps and a whole load of adverts for shops and hotels one could visit in 1930's Paris. What makes this book special to me though is it's date; 1937. Two years later the second world war broke out and in 1940 the Germans occupied Paris. How many of the shops and hotels, immortalised in these pages, were still around by the time the war ended?
I've also been included in a Treasury this week! Everything Must Go features my vintage book "The Romance of Modern Electricity", thanks to LinniR for including me!
Have a nice week everyone!
2 comments:
Great book!
It would be lovely to go through it!
What a great little piece of history!
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