TY - BOOK AU - Alemagna,Beatrice TI - A lion in Paris SN - 9781849761710 PY - 2014/// CY - London PB - Tate Publishing KW - Lion KW - Pictorial works KW - Juvenile fiction KW - Statues KW - France KW - Paris KW - Children's stories KW - fast KW - Travel KW - Löwe KW - gnd KW - Paris (France) KW - Description and travel KW - Fiction KW - Juvenile works N1 - Originally published in French as Un Lion a Paris, by Autrement in 2006 N2 - A curious young lion decides to leave the grasslands and visit the city of Paris. The lion in this story was inspired by the statue of a lion in the Place Denfert-Rochereau in Paris. Parisians are very fond of this lion. The statue was erected by the architect Frederic Auguste Bartholdi between 1876 and 1880. It is a smaller version of his famous Belfort Lion sculpture in Belfort, in eastern France ER -