Content : With more than eighty sites as extraordinary as they are varied, this book offers a genuine world tour in France!
The whole world is in France!
Who remembers that the Bataclan is a Chinese pagoda? That the Nice Orthodox Cathedral is the largest outside Russia? Or that in Normandy, the Château du Champ de Bataille houses an authentic Indian palace?
More than 80 extraordinary sites are presented in this book: Moorish villas, replicas of African mosques, Japanese gardens ... This unusual heritage is told through the fulfilled dreams of travellers, the craze for exotic cultures. It is a testimony of the migrations and of world history ...
A book that shows how diversity, mixing and cosmopolitanism are still and always a source of enrichment for France.