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For all his faults, Lucien crawls under a reader’s skin and makes one care about his flaws as well as. Lucien can no longer deny their suffering, or their shared humanity.Ĭompared to the literary thrillers of Ken Follett and Alan Furst, with real architectural puzzles drawn from history, The Paris Architect is a powerfully human novel of survival, self-knowledge, and sacrifice.Ĭharles Belfoure is an award-winning architect specializing in historical preservation. The Paris Architect may be a glimpse into a significant, life-altering period in time in Paris’ long history of existence, but it is also a fascinating study in human nature and the broad spectrum of behavior one can find in any population. He begins a secret life, designing expertly concealed spaces invisible to the untrained eye, while working with the Germans on the other side.īut when one of Lucien’s clever hiding spaces fails horribly, the devastating plight of the Jews becomes personal. Publisher: Sourcebooks Published: October 2013 Genre: historical fiction ISBN: 9781402294150 Rating: In 1942 Paris, gifted architect Lucien Bernard accepts a commission that will bring him a great deal of money and maybe get him killed. This was overseen by architects Androuet du Cerceau and Louis Metezeau.
Turn the capital of France into a medieval looking city or a futuristic one, build a business district surrounded by parks, create gigantic plazas worthy of the greatest soviet cities, imagine neighborhoods where historical architecture blends in with the most modern designs. In the reign of Louis XVI, the fermiers gnraux in charge of collecting taxes suggested to the king that he build a wall around Paris that would be 24. An ambitious ¼ mile long, 100 wide multistory structure was built along the banks of the river Seine. A vivid, suspenseful story which keeps you gripped to the very last page, about a gifted architect who reluctantly begins a secret life devising ingenious. Yet, when a wealthy industrialist offers him a coveted position designing German factories in exchange for creating secret hiding places for Jewish families, Lucien can’t resist the money-or the challenge. The Architect: Paris (TA:P) is a construction game. Paris, 1942: Like most gentiles in Nazi-occupied Paris, architect Lucien Bernard has little empathy for the Jews.
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