The Secret Life of the Seine

288 pp. In "The Secret Life of the Seine,' Rosenblum is our guide to life along the river and to the many pleasures unique to this main artery of the heart of France. We get to know his own floating village between the Pont de l'Alma and the Pont de la Concorde, but then setting out from Paris, he takes us to the river's source near Dijon, through the provinces of Burgundy and Champagne, past castles and abbeys and cherry orchards, through a thousand years of French history and culture, and on to Normandy, where the Seine empties at least into the sea at Le Havre.