--- product_id: 1440778 title: "Paris. Portrait of a City" price: "414.48 DT" currency: TND in_stock: true reviews_count: 8 url: https://www.desertcart.tn/products/1440778-paris-portrait-of-a-city store_origin: TN region: Tunisia --- # Large, collectible coffee table book 1895 historic train photo, perfect composition Haussmann-era Paris transformation visuals Paris. Portrait of a City **Price:** 414.48 DT **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 🏙️ Own a piece of Parisian history—where every page tells a story. ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Paris. Portrait of a City - **How much does it cost?** 414.48 DT with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.tn](https://www.desertcart.tn/products/1440778-paris-portrait-of-a-city) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Curated Authenticity:** Experience Paris beyond clichés with carefully selected, lesser-known works by legendary photographers. - • **Highly Rated & Coveted:** Join 267+ readers who gave it a 4.7-star rating—don’t miss out on this beloved Paris portrait. - • **Timeless Visual History:** Dive into rare, mind-blowing archival photos that capture Paris’s evolution with unmatched clarity. - • **Architectural Renaissance:** Explore Haussmann’s iconic city redesign through stunning before-and-after imagery. - • **Collector’s Coffee Table Essential:** A large-format, beautifully bound book that elevates any living or office space. ## Overview ‘Paris. Portrait of a City’ is a visually stunning, large-format used book featuring rare historical and architectural photographs that chronicle Paris’s transformation from medieval chaos to Haussmann’s harmonious boulevards. With a 4.7-star rating from over 260 readers, it’s a must-have coffee table book for lovers of travel, photography, and authentic city narratives. ## Description Paris. Portrait of a City [Gautrand, Jean Claude] on desertcart.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Paris. Portrait of a City Review: An exquisite visual history. It's not the book I wanted, but I cannot send it back. - Last night, I spent about half an hour with this book. I was awed. Its photos and illustrations filled me with the same level of wonder, curiosity, and admiration that I feel for Paris itself. And it manages to do it without going overboard with gaudy fetishism of the city. Most images are impossibly mind-blowing, like the 1895 photo of a train that smashed through the second-story wall of a train station, which Antonin Neurdein executed with beautiful composition and technical perfection. Others tell how the Paris we know today came to be. An 1860 image depicts swaths of demolished medieval homes, buildings razed to make way for Haussman's renovation. The three-decade period remade the cramped, disorganized city with wide boulevards and the harmonious architecture of cream-colored stone buildings that now rise to uniform heights. Other photos add to the book's honest and not-too-romanticized vision of the city. Innovative fashion photos delight. Henri Cartier-Bresson's images appear, but not to serve a now-clichéd ideal of Paris. Instead, a handful of his lesser-known photos enrich the book without hard-selling the fanciful fairy tale of the city. "Paris. Portrait of a City" isn't the book I intended to buy. When a friend described an extraordinary book about Paris -- without providing the title -- this is what I purchased. It wasn't what I was looking for, but I fell in love. I can't wait to spend more time with it. Review: Beautiful portrayal of Paris - Such a lovely coffee table book for people who love Paris and traveling, in general. This book is very large and heavy but looks great in our book shelves. ## Features - Used Book in Good Condition ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #219,308 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #65 in City Photography #153 in Travel Photography (Books) #220 in General France Travel Guides | | Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 267 Reviews | ## Images ![Paris. Portrait of a City - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81DOzrfYxGL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ An exquisite visual history. It's not the book I wanted, but I cannot send it back. *by H***I on January 24, 2022* Last night, I spent about half an hour with this book. I was awed. Its photos and illustrations filled me with the same level of wonder, curiosity, and admiration that I feel for Paris itself. And it manages to do it without going overboard with gaudy fetishism of the city. Most images are impossibly mind-blowing, like the 1895 photo of a train that smashed through the second-story wall of a train station, which Antonin Neurdein executed with beautiful composition and technical perfection. Others tell how the Paris we know today came to be. An 1860 image depicts swaths of demolished medieval homes, buildings razed to make way for Haussman's renovation. The three-decade period remade the cramped, disorganized city with wide boulevards and the harmonious architecture of cream-colored stone buildings that now rise to uniform heights. Other photos add to the book's honest and not-too-romanticized vision of the city. Innovative fashion photos delight. Henri Cartier-Bresson's images appear, but not to serve a now-clichéd ideal of Paris. Instead, a handful of his lesser-known photos enrich the book without hard-selling the fanciful fairy tale of the city. "Paris. Portrait of a City" isn't the book I intended to buy. When a friend described an extraordinary book about Paris -- without providing the title -- this is what I purchased. It wasn't what I was looking for, but I fell in love. I can't wait to spend more time with it. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Beautiful portrayal of Paris *by L***A on March 7, 2025* Such a lovely coffee table book for people who love Paris and traveling, in general. This book is very large and heavy but looks great in our book shelves. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Aris *by J***. on December 9, 2025* Gorgeous book! Extraordinarily informative. ## Frequently Bought Together - Paris. 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