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Seven Ages of Paris, by Alistair Horne (Knopf, 480 pp., $35)

WHETHER we go to Paris in the flesh, braving traffic, strikers, Arabs, and the indigenous rock and roll, or visit it from the comfort of our chairs, we need a guide. None could be better than Alistair Horne, the English journalist and historian who, after numerous volumes of French history, has drawn together this relaxed, witty, and seemingly omniscient love letter.

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Richard Brookhiser

Historian Richard Brookhiser is a senior editor of National Review and a senior fellow at the National Review Institute.

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Seven Ages of Paris, by Alistair Horne (Knopf, 480 pp., $35)

WHETHER we go to Paris in the flesh, braving traffic, strikers, Arabs, and the indigenous rock and roll, or visit it from the comfort of our chairs, we need a guide. None could be better than Alistair Horne, the English journalist and historian who, after numerous volumes of French history, has drawn together this relaxed, witty, and seemingly omniscient love letter.