City of love. City of luxury. City of fear. Party town. The fascinating story of how a small military settlement of the ancient Romans on the muddy banks of the Seine miraculously turned into the City of Light, the epicenter of Western civilization. A fascinating story of many generations of five families, whose destinies are intricately intertwined in Paris. Aristocrats descended from the knights of Charlemagne, rebels who fueled the fire of the Great French Revolution, merchants who lost everything during the reign of Louis XV and became rich again under Napoleon, commoners from Montmartre who built the Eiffel Tower and robbed the rich near the Moulin Rouge cabaret. A story about love, betrayal and family secrets, about the people who created Paris, the great center of world culture. This is a novel for everyone who has been to Paris and fell in love with this city. This book is for those who have yet to visit there. For the first time in Russian!