Author(s): Lucinda Holdforth

Travel

What better respite is there from down-under diplomacy and politics than to wander the Parisian haunts of some of the most influential women in recent western history? Australian Lucinda Holdforth abandoned her speech-writing job to do just that, exploring the intriguing Paris lives and locales of Nancy Mitford, Josephine Baker, Coco Chanel, Colette, Gertrude Stein, Germaine de Stael and others who made and remade themselves in Paris.