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Kemper Conseil Publishing announces the pre- release of Path of the Patriots. Nothing before has combined the cachet of Paris as a tourist destination and the continuing fascination with the French Revolution in such a dynamic way.

Path of the Patriots is a walking guide which takes the visitor to Paris back 200 years on a tour of the city during the French Revolution. It's a historical time trip through the streets where it all happened, to the houses where the revolutionaries lived, worked, ate, drank and played, and the places where many of them - along with thousands of others - ended their lives under the blade of Dr Guillotin's terrifying beheading machine. 

Every walk offers a different glimpse into the excitement, idealism, and terror that characterized this amazing period of history, be it following the path of the condemned along the rue Saint-Honoré with stores and cafés still standing today, or visiting the prison that held Josephine and still has her graffiti on the walls. The storming of the Bastille comes to life before your eyes as you have a drink on a café terrace that now occupies the courtyard of this prison.

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Author: Jan Kelley
Format 6 x 9 in.
Pages: 740
ISBN: 9789076542300
Price: € 39.95


 Path of the Patriots - to be released May, 2009

    A Tourist Guide to Paris during the French Revolution. With ten walking tours through the neighbourhoods and sites of Paris from the revolution that changed the western world.
    Each walk is full of stories and anecdotes, as well as illustrations, maps and detailed instructions. They contain hidden treasures that will never be found in a typical tourist guide of Paris.
     This guide gives an extra dimension to popular sites like the Tuileries. Many do not know that this is where Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette were first held in captivity, and where Robespierre compiled his dreaded list of suspects. Even fewer know that Thomas Jefferson attended musical concerts there, just escaping from being the first victim of the revolution.

The Walks
1. Versailles - an Ending and a Beginning
2. The Cradle of the Revolution - The Palais-Royal
3. Saints and Scholars in the Latin Quarter
4. Chez Les Cordeliers - Odéon – Saint-Germain – Luxembourg
5. From the Temple of Reason to the Temple Prison
6. Ghosts in the Place du Carrousel - The Louvre – Place du Carrousel – The Tuileries
7. The Route of the Condemned I
8. The Route of the Condemned II
9. Sans-Culottes, the Terror, and a Path of False Hope
10. Power and Glory - Faubourg Saint-Germain – Invalides – Ecole-Militaire – Champs de Mars

With 115 illustrations and 20 maps.

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