02163cam a2200349 i 4500 204902598 TxAuBib 20140516120000.0 110902s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2011033230 9780312593308 0312593309 (OCoLC)740627394 TxAuBib rda Rosnay, Tatiana de. The house I loved / Tatiana de Rosnay. 1st edition. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2012. x, 222 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Paris, France: 1860's. Hundreds of houses are being razed, whole neighborhoods reduced to ashes. By order of Emperor Napoleon III, Baron Haussman has set into motion a series of large-scale renovations that will permanently alter the face of old Paris, moulding it into a modern city. The reforms will erase generations of history-but in the midst of the tumult, one woman will take a stand. Rose Bazelet is determined to fight against the destruction of her family home until the very end; as others flee, she stakes her claim in the basement of the old house on rue Childebert, ignoring the sounds of change that come closer and closer each day. Attempting to overcome the loneliness of her daily life, she begins to write letters to Armand, her beloved late husband. And as she delves into the ritual of remembering, Rose is forced to come to terms with a secret that has been buried deep in her heart for thirty years. The House I Loved is both a poignant story of one woman's indelible strength, and an ode to Paris, where houses harbor the joys and sorrows of their inhabitants, and secrets endure in the very walls"-- Cover verso. 20120301. Urban renewal Fiction. City planning Fiction. Widows Fiction. Family Secrets Fiction. Paris (France) History 1848-1870 Fiction. France History 1848-1870 Fiction. Fiction.