In Praise of Paris

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In this exquisite collection of essays by Maël Renouard, Paris past and present, in remembrance and under playful gaze, on promenades and through a flaneur’s musing, unfolds with gentleness and melancholy, humour and erudition. 

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‘Paris has a knack for creating miniature myths about the objects and procedures of daily life – elegies for an old metro ticket. Everything that vanishes here seems assured to find its memorialist…’

In this exquisite collection of essays by Maël Renouard, Paris past and present, in remembrance and under playful gaze, on promenades and through a flaneur’s musing, unfolds with gentleness and melancholy, humour and erudition.

This work is translated from Éloge de Paris (Payot & Rivages, Paris, 2019).