Jacques-Louis Delpal

More than just a guide book, this is a passport to the Paris nightlife of yesterday.
Every bar, cafe, and restaurant; each club, cabaret and strip-tease joint is mentioned along with many other strange and unusual nocturnal curios that will leave you awestruck.
Each one is accompanied by snapshot reviews that, since first published over four decades ago, now act like a window into a brief moment of history.

Flicking through the pages at random:

The Zanzi-Bar
41, rue Sainte-Anne [Open all night long, except Sunday]

This small neighbourhood bar undergoes a bizarre metamorphosis as night begins to descend upon the street : we find ourselves mixing with a strange fauna made up of late night strollers, ladies who have just finished work in the neighbouring district of l'Opéra and are now making their way home, intermingle with a dazzling array of exotic locals - the gossiping homosexuals and transvestites still up at this imposable hour all going about their nocturnal activities"

Simply put - it makes fascinating reading.… (más)