by Philip Freriks · Conserve, Uitgeverij · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789054291787
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«Gare du Nord: verhalen over Frankrijk» is a book of true stories about trains and France by Philip Freriks, published by Conserve in 2004 (201 pages, in Dutch).
The work revolves around the Parisian station Gare du Nord, gateway to France for the Dutch and Belgians for over a century. Freriks, who first encountered it at thirteen and later worked there in uniform on night trains to London or Copenhagen, gathers true chronicles of arrivals and departures featuring figures such as Verlaine, Jules Verne, or the Thalys in the First World War.
The subtitle of the work is «verhalen over Frankrijk» and the book was published in paperback with 201 pages in Dutch; the author, born in Utrecht in 1944, was a journalist and presenter of the NOS Journaal.
For readers of French history and culture who want a personal and evocative approach through one of Paris's great stations.
