A Paris Chapbook

“If you’ve ever been to Paris, this book will return you there in your mind’s eye. Wonderful quotes from famous visitors with incisive responses by Brewster Chamberlin.”
- Hollis George, Writing Tips from the
Pens of Famous Writers

An intellectually stimulating collection of other people's opinions, comments, and critiques of Paris. Chamberlin describes these snippets as “citations which illuminated one or another aspect of Parisian life and culture, or appealed to my sense of humor, however twisted this may seem to some readers.” Observations by the author of A Piece of Paris: The Grand XIVth; Paris Now and Then; and Kultur auf Trümmern.

Brewster Chamberlin spent several decades of his life working as a historian, archivist, university teacher, lecturer, poet, essayist and writer of longer and shorter fictions while living in Manhattan, Germany, France (Provence), Italy, Washington DC and Greece. In 2001 he retired from an executive position at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC to move with his wife Lynn-Marie Smith to Key West, Florida, to concentrate on a series of five novels revolving around the city of Berlin in the 20th century, one of which takes place in the Conch Republic, as the island of Key West is also known.