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Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London

`Flร
: neuse [flanne-euhze], noun, from the French. Feminine form of flร
: neur [flanne-euhr], an idler, a dawdling observer, usually found in cities. That is an imaginary definition.`If the word flร
: neur conjures up visions of Baudelaire, boulevards and bohemia ‘“ then what exactly is a flร
: neuse? In this gloriously provocative and celebratory book, Lauren Elkin defines her as ‘˜a determined resourceful woman keenly attuned to the creative potential of the city, and the liberating possibilities of a good walk’™. Part cultural meander, part memoir, Flร
: neuse traces the relationship between the city and creativity through a journey that begins in New York and moves us to Paris, via Venice, Tokyo and London, exploring along the way the paths taken by the flร
: neuses who have lived and walked in those cities.From nineteenth-century novelist George Sand to artist Sophie Calle, from war correspondent Martha Gellhorn to film-maker Agnes Varda, Flร
: neuse considers what is at stake when a certain kind of light-footed woman encounters the city and changes her life, one step at a time.

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