True Pleasures: A Memoir Of Women In Paris

Description

Meet the dazzling women of Paris; from Colette to Nancy Mitford; Marie Antoinette to Coco Chanel; Napoleon's Josephine to Edith Wharton. Rule-breakers and style-setters, these women were utterly diverse, yet they shared one common passion - Paris, the world's headquarters of femininity. At a turning point in her life, Lucinda Holdforth journeys to Paris and takes a very personal tour through the lives, loves and losses of its celebrated women. She evokes the incarnations of the city from Louis XIV through the French Revolution, two world wars and the Paris of the new millennium. And, as she walks in their footsteps, Lucinda draws inspiration from the fascinating women who created and nurtured the world's most civilised city. This enjoyable companion will seduce and delight - and inspire every woman in search of her own true pleasures...

Lucinda lives in Sydney and is a speechwriter. She has previously worked as a researcher at ABC Television;, been a career diplomat with the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade a speechwriter to former Minister for Finance and Deputy Prime Minister Kim Beazley and communications specialist for a management consulting firm. She has had articles and columns published in Australian newspapers and magazines. Her first book, True Pleasures: A Memoir of Women in Paris, sold 17,000 copies http://truepleasuresmap.com/