Nights in Paris by Jan Brusse (rare 1958 Bruna Book paperback edition)

"The nights of Paris are peopled with strange beings who know that the clients of Paris la Nuit seek sensations mostly not spoken of around the Christmas tree: night-birds, who are not so unfamiliar with our life as we are with theirs. It is they who make the enormous amusement machine go round. They work silently and fault-lessly, without illusions that they are doing anything good or anything ill. The object: to earn a lot of money. It doesn't matter how. So in the nights of Paris everything is possible. Everyone can find what he seeks. All life's temptations are commercialised. All desires, all inclinations can be met. When the luminous letters of Pigalle are trying to drive away the darkness, then there is nothing that is any longer strange. Between the most artless pleasure and the most incomprehensible perversity there lies now nothing but a difference in price."

Rare book of text and photography of Paris nightlife. Text by Jan Brusse and photographs by Daniel Frasnay.

Vintage Paperback / Bruna Book / 1958 / Very Good Condition