Quotes from Gregory Curtis

I was seduced by the notion that the long walks I was taking made me a flâneur, too.

including Jacques Hillairet's two-volume Dictionnaire historique des rues de Paris, a classic that tells the history of every street in Paris. In some cases the history is just a line or two, but more often the entries are detailed, run along for several pages, and are illustrated with archival photographs and drawings.