Author(s): Jean-Jacques Sempe

Art

Reknowned the New Yorker cover illustrator Jean-Jaques Sempe illustrates the poignant charm of France's capital and its residents with his signature style and gentle sense of humour and irony in this perfect gift book. His drawings are famed for their striking use of pen and ink, their inimitable style, and most of all for their satire and tragic-comic vision. The eighty-six drawings in this charming portfilio are sweet and sentimental. They somehow manage to be gentle even when the topic is difficult. They probe the quirkiness of life in Paris and wordlessly pinpoint the quintessential features of the City of Light, creating a world peopled by lovers strolling along the Seine, culture mavens preening in the Louvre, and characters who are ready to see the comic and the lighthearted beyond life's problems. Anyone who has fallen in love with Paris will be sure to cherish this enchanting keepsake.