Reading the classics is an essential step in initiation the art of flânerie. For this list I have chosen the 10 indispensable books, privileging the variety of styles and languages. I have excluded even very great authors, about whom I reserve the right to write in the future, and have limited myself to books ranging from the origins to the 1970s.

How to move through the city as a true flâneur, or flâneuse? Here you have my "decalogue" extracted from the book Flâneur. The Art of Wandering the Streets of Paris.