Boston's French Secrets: Guided Walks That Reveal Boston's French Heritage (Images from the Past) - Softcover

Atwood, Rhea

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1884592414 ISBN 13: 9781884592416

Publisher: Images from the Past, 2004

Synopsis

The first book published about Boston's French Heritage looks at the city with a sleuth's eye and reveals its hidden French history and architecture. Discover Boston's many-layered ties to France, its culture, and some outstanding personalities, including Paul Revere!

About this title

From the Publisher:

Think of Boston and who comes to mind? The British, or maybe the Irish? Well, guess what! You've been missing Boston's French legacy.

Rhea Hollis Atwood, a popular tour guide, offers a feast of French culture, past and present, at a total of seventy-four numbered sites. Introductory text, maps, historical images, and modern photographs provide wayfinding aids for the walker and context for the armchair traveler.

Highlights include:
· Second Empire, Beaux Arts, Classical Revival, and Art Deco architectural styles
· Urban design inspired by the Paris of Napoleon III
· The Bacchante sculpture at the Boston Public Library - offered in 1896 but refused as too risqué, and installed at last in 1995!
· Boston’s first Catholic bishop, Jean Lefebvre de Cheverus
· French heroes of the American Revolution like the French admiral Count d’Estaing and General LaFayette, and Americans of Huguenot descent like Peter Faneuil and Paul Revere!

A sixth chapter, French Icons Outside the Walks, focuses on the French associations and collections at The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Symphony Hall, The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and The Paul Revere House. This book will change the way you think about Boston!

About the Author:

Rhea Hollis Atwood, writer, independent historian and lecturer, has given walking tours and lectures about Boston's French landmarks for the Boston Center for Adult Education, the French Library and Cultural Center/Alliance Française of Boston and Cambridge, Boston College, and the Bostonian Society.

Atwood has written feature articles on Beacon Hill's historic sites for the Beacon Hill Times and on Boston's French heritage for the French Chamber of Commerce newsletter. She is also the author of Upper Beacon Hill (Arcadia Publishing, 2002.)

Atwood was a resident of Boston from 1992 to 2002 and now lives in California.

About this edition

• Publisher: Images from the Past
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1884592414
• ISBN 13: 9781884592416
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160