Tabacs d’orient. Voyages Depuis leur redécouverte à la

Depuis leur redécouverte à la fin du XVIIIe siècle

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In der römischen Kaiserzeit wurden für die Provinz Ägypten in einer Zeitspanne von mehr als 300 Jahren (ca

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Tabacs d’orient. Voyages Depuis leur redécouverte à laJacques Rda takes us in search of a packet of Old Holborn in a Paris bathed in the colors of the Orient: a stroll through the 20th arrondissement of tobacconists once Auvergne and now Manchurian, facing the black and gold storefronts of Koranic bookstores, or among shoemakers and bazaars whose signs are labeled in ideograms. Here, under thick plumes of smoke, is a vision of Paris more authentic and above all more amusing than the one usually served up.