At The Table of Le Grand Vefour

By Sandy Lesberg

AT THE TABLE OF LE GRAND V?FOUR is a collection of private conversations of some of the giants of literature, art and music and politics at signal moments of their lives. Sitting in the restaurant that has been a landmark dining establishment in Paris since 1784, Victor Hugo is told by his mistress of fifty years that she is dying.Friends Baudelaire and Edouard Manet, both slightly drunk on absinthe, come to V?four for lunch and nearly come to blows. Colette is rescued from a fire in her apartment on Palais Royal, slightly up the street from the restaurant, by the proprietor/chef of V?four, is carried to the safety of her regular table.Emile Zola hosts an after theatre supper party at V?four after a disastrous play opening, is comforted by Daudet and Flaubert.Marc Chagall has birthday lunch with his twin granddaughters.Gustave Mahler dines with his wife, Alma, and tells about his visit with Sigmund Freud in Leiden.Jean Paul Sartre decides to refuse the Nobel Prize and with Simone de Beauvoir plans his announcement. Sixteen chapters, each a different highly personal revelation of a person of great worth and merit involved in serious discussion.The book is profusely illustrated with long ago menus, many photographs of the people involved and AUTHOR'S NOTES at the beginning of each chapter setting the context for the conversationAT THE TABLE OF LE GRAND V?FOUR by Sandy Lesberg

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0615727719
• ISBN13: 9780615727714
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Sandy Lesberg
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 0.4" x 8.5"