Dominique Lesbros

> Babelio : https://www.babelio.com/livres/Lesbros-Le-monde-a-Paris/832974

> Le monde à Paris et lieux insolites sont à découvrir. Dominique LESBROS est une journaliste, guide de Paris, extraordinaire. Femme raffinée, subtile, super informée, elle connait tous les coins et recoins cachés qu'elle nous fait découvrir avec passion.. Tous ses GUIDES sont des merveilles.
—Danieljean (Babelio)… (más)

You could write a book about what I don't know about Paris. In fact, someone has, and this is it. The book is divided into twenty sections of multiple choice questions, arrondissements 1 - 20, with twenty corresponding answer sections that follow. Basing the sections on arrondissements is a nice idea that went right over my head until I looked up 'arrondissement' and found that it means neighborhood or district. (So that's what the map and big pencil at the beginning of each section mean. I just thought of it as attractive graphics.)

Reading the book took a bit dexterity, since I kept flipping between the question and the answer sections. My lack of knowledge may have something to do with it, but I found the questions difficult and obscure, although I did guess a few correctly. I finally found a rhythm of reading a question, and then flipping back to the answer, then returning to the questions. Among the trivia I learned was that during the Middle Ages, the punishment for being found guilty of counterfeiting was to be dropped while still alive into a vat of boiling water. Ack! I'm not sure I needed to know that or not.

I have the impression that the author expected the average reader to know more about Paris than I do but this is a neat little book, especially for someone who loves trivia. And I do.… (más)