Rutherfurd Edward Paris a novel

Inspired by the haunting, passionate story of the city of lights,
this epic novel weaves a gripping tale of four families across the
centuries: from the lies that spawn the noble line of de Cygne to
the revolutionary Le Sourds who seek their destruction; from the
Blanchards whose bourgeois respectability offers scant protection
against scandal to the hard-working Gascons and their soaring
ambitions. Over hundreds of years, these four families are bound by
forbidden loves and marriages of convenience; dogged by vengeance
and murderous secrets; torn apart by the irreconcilable differences
of birth and faith, and brought together by the tumultuous history
of their city. Paris bursts to life in the intrigue, corruption and
glory of its people. Beloved author of Sarum, London and New York,
Edward Rutherfurd illuminates Paris as only he can: capturing the
romance and everyday drama of the men and women who, in two
thousand years, transformed a humble trading post on the muddy
banks of the Seine into the most celebrated city in the world.