The FiFi Report 039

True Pleasures - A Memoir of Women in Paris By Lucinda Holdforth
If you love reading about Paris and love reading about fabulous women in history then Bonjour? This is pour vous. Oui! Lucinda Holdforth (and she does) goes to Paris and retraces the steps of some amazing and absolutely fascinating women who have spent time there.”From Colette to Nancy Mitford; Marie Antoinette to Coco Chanel; Napoleon’s Josephine to Edith Wharton. Rule-breakers and style-setters, these women were utterly diverse, yet they shared one common passion - Paris, the world’s headquarters of femininity.” But there are stories of other women less well know who are so interesting. For a start I hadn’t even heard of Ninon de Lanclos (and that’s saying something with all the gossip I read) who lived in the Place des Vosges, had with 5 lovers, an artist’s salon and just swanned around being fabulous and the Kings mistress.Or something like that.The writer Lucinda is from the lovely town of Canberra and brings a little too much of her own life in the book (a personal edge) but it’s fantastic reading about women living the life we all want: adventure, intrigue and culture in the mothership, Paris. Bring it on! $22 at Dymocks