THE FIRST TIME I SAW PARIS

Memories of Dreams Come True

by Robert Blumenfeld


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Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 31/01/2025

Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 6x9
Page Count : 224
ISBN : 9798369439678
Format : E-Book
Dimensions : N/A
Page Count : 224
ISBN : 9798369439661
Format : Hardcover
Dimensions : 6x9
Page Count : 224
ISBN : 9798369439685

About the Book

The First Time I Saw Paris: Memories of Dreams Come True recounts the author’s first trip to Paris in the summer of 1963 between his Junior and Senior years as a French major at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ, in Part One of the book. He had been awarded a Carnegie Foundation Fellowship to spend three months abroad doing research for them on a particular topic that had won him the fellowship, from May through July, with Paris as his main destination. Afterwards, he was to write a paper about his findings for the Carnegie Foundation. He was thrilled to be going to Europe for the first time, and especially excited at the prospect of visiting the city that he had long dreamed of and that is the center of French culture, history, literature, and art. It was a fantastic, eye-opening trip. Part Two recounts other memorable trips to Paris, throughout France, to the USSR in 1985 and to Greece in 1994, as well as to other European countries.


About the Author

Robert Blumenfeld is the author of the historical novels The Count of Saint-Hélène, or The Lure of Infamy (CreateSpace Publishing Platform, 2014) and The Vampires of Morève: A Family Chronicle (Xlibris, 2019); as well as of Accents: A Manual for Actors (1998; Revised and Expanded Edition, 2002); Using the Stanislavsky System: A Practical Guide to Character Creation and Period Styles (2008), and other books published by Limelight Editions. He lives and works as an actor, dialect coach, and writer in New York City, and is a long-time member of Actors’ Equity Association and SAG-AFTRA. He has worked in numerous regional and New York theaters, as well as in television and independent films, and performed in many comedies and farces. He spent three seasons as an actor at the American Shakespeare Festival in Stratford CT beginning in 1970. For ACT Seattle he played the title role in Ronald Harwood’s The Dresser, and he has performed many roles in plays by Shakespeare and Chekhov, as well as doing an Off-Broadway season of six Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas. Mr. Blumenfeld has recorded more than 320 Talking Books for the American Foundation for the Blind, including the complete Sherlock Holmes canon (four novels and fifty-six short stories), Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Alexandre Dumas’ The Count of Monte Cristo. He holds a B.A. in French from Rutgers University and an M.A. from Columbia University in French Language and Literature. Mr. Blumenfeld speaks French, German, and Italian fluently, and has smatterings of Russian, Spanish, and Yiddish.