Paris To The Past : Traveling Through French History By Train
by Ina Caro

If you have trouble falling asleep at night, get a copy of Paris to the Past and in no time at all you will be dreaming.
Ina Caro is an authority on medieval and modern French history and travels to France quite often with her husband. She has an idea of taking one-day train trips from central Paris to see the churches and cathedrals that are en route and they will do it in chronological order, historically. The two of them begin with the twelfth century and end with the nineteenth century.
Sound interesting? I thought so and the first couple of chapters were. It began to bog down when the immense amount of details became too overwhelming and boring. The writing is dry.
If you're a scholar of medieval French history, this is probably the book for you. For the rest of us, there's better travel books with abbreviated histories.
Not recommended.