The Modern Salonnière

The Modern Salonnière is a collection of essays that combines Saxon Henry's passions of traveling, reading, and creative nonfiction. Locale by locale and book by book, Saxon brings the historical figures she has chosen as her subjects to life. Stroll through Paris while imagining the era when the Emperor Julian the Apostate ruled Lutetia, parts of which still stand at the Thermes de Cluny. Walk London's streets in search of the fin-de-siècle haunts where the Decadents were determined to turn con