Paris - The Secret Atlas - Hardcover

by Thomas Jonglez (Author)

Find the sculpture of the goddess Isis on the façade of the Louvre, decipher the alchemical symbols on Notre-Dame de Paris, scrutinize the tortoise-lyres at the Opéra-Comique, climb the majestic grand staircase of the Ecole de Médecine, decipher Masonic symbols in unsuspected places, visit a sublime hidden library, search for the enigmatic star octahedron on André Breton's tomb, admire forgotten ceramics...

Author Biography

Thomas Jonglez was born and grew up in Paris. At the age of 22 he set out to discover the world, and spent most of 1992 backpacking around South America. After several years with the steel industry, he launched his publishing company in 2003. The first edition of Secret Paris came out in 2007. Ever since, he has regularly strolled around the capital, constantly surprised to discover new secret places in a city he thought he knew so well.