Parisian Encounters: Great Loves and Great Passions

Hobson has created haunting portraits of eight famous couples whose passionate love affairs were played out against the backdrop of Paris. Whimsical collage illustrations are paired with reproductions of exquisite period maps, excerpts from correspondence, and eccentric chronologies of each relationship. Designed with a unique spiral binding that you must see to believe. Includes chronologies of Napolean/Josephine, Sands/Chopin, Claudel/Rodin, Nin/Miller, Cassatt/Degas, Lee Miller/Man Ray, and others.