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Transcript: Interview: Alistair Horne discusses Paris through the ages
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- December 21, 2002
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Interview: Alistair Horne discusses Paris through the ages
Host: STEVE INSKEEP
Time: 8:00-9:00 PM
STEVE INSKEEP, host:
In the Middle Ages, a woman newly arrived in Paris described the city
as a `barbarous country where the houses are gloomy, the churches
ugly and the customs revolting.' For most of its history, Paris has
not been the City of Light that foreigners the world over like to
dream about. But that knowledge has not stopped historian Alistair
Horne from falling in love with it. Horne has written a sort of biography
of the city called "Seven Ages of Paris," and he joins us now from
the NPR bureau in New York.
Mr. Horn, thanks ...