Catherine Paris Author:Princess Marthe Bibesco 1928. A novel from a writer, hostess and socialite. The book begins: Catherine-Paris was the daughter of a Rumanian noble who had been educated on the banks of the Seine, and of a mother who had visions. I often saw you in dreams, little daughter, before you came into the world, she used to say. And in a few years Catherine would learn where her... more » mother had dreamt of her. Although her birthplace was a thousand miles southwest of Moscow, it suffered from the same blizzards in winter.« less