The Velvet Hours
As Paris teeters on the edge of the German occupation, a young French woman closes the door to her late grandmother’s treasure-filled apartment, unsure if she’ll ever return.An elusive courtesan, Marthe de Florian cultivated a life of art and beauty, casting out all recollections of her...
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As Paris teeters on the edge of the German occupation, a young French woman closes the door to her late grandmother’s treasure-filled apartment, unsure if she’ll ever return.An elusive courtesan, Marthe de Florian cultivated a life of art and beauty, casting out all recollections of her impoverished childhood in the dark alleys of Montmartre. With Europe on the brink of wa
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9780425266267 (0425266265)
ASIN: 425266265
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
I remember hearing about this apartment and how it had been shut and unopened for so long. I thought to myself, at the time, what a mystery. What could have happened to the people that lived there? I knew they could not have been Jewish and that apartment left alone. I was so excited when I was appr...
Like so many other books, The Velvet Hours by Alyson Richman is a story of two women across time. In this case, the book is a fictionalized story of an actual Paris apartment and two actual women - Marthe de Florian and her granddaughter Solange Beaugiron. As with many of these books, the story goes...
A special thank you to NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.A Parisian flat that has been untouched for over 70 years is the inspiration for this story. The owner left Paris for the south of France before the outbreak of WWII, never to return again. The apartment, miraculously in ta...
Simply fabulous. The story of this apartment appealed to me from the very beginning and this telling of it was simply unforgettable.
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