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|title=Paris

|author=Edward Rutherfurd

|publisher=Hodder & Stoughton

|date=June 2013

|website=http://www.edwardrutherfurd.com/

|summary=Spanning the years from 1261 to 1968 but focussing on the period from 1875 to 1940. Rutherfurd's exemplary historical research supports a wonderfully woven saga of four families from different social positions through the ages that captures the spirit of the nation. As enchanting and complex as the city he describes.

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Taking four families, from different social positions, Edward Rutherfurd weaves these family histories into the history of Paris and France. We encounter the noble de Cygnes, the bourgeois Blanchards, the lower class Gascons and the revolutionary Le Sourds. Their lives cross paths through the years in often unexpected ways and while ''Paris'' is an historical fiction novel, this is as much an epic story of families as it is about the history.

For more great French-set historical fiction, then [[Pure by Andrew Miller]] is less ambitious in time frame but equally entertaining. For more great historical fiction then the obvious choice is [[Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel]] but in my view, Rutherfurd is no less a writer than Mantel and deserves similar adulation.

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