Just imagine! In the early nineteenth century, this cathedral was in such a state of disrepair that the city considered tearing it down. Luckily for us, Victor Hugo heard about the plans to destroy it and wrote The Hunchback of Notre-Dame to raise awareness of its glorious history. And, by golly, did it work! Parisians campaigned to save it, and the building was repaired and polished to the pristine state you find today.
Stephanie PerkinsMots clés paris victor-hugo the-hunchback-of-notre-dame notre-dame
I don't think that anyone outside Paris can understand love and murder as we do.
But Emile loves Paris, and loving Paris is a murderous education. ("Anthropology: What Is Lost In Rotation")
FAITES L'AMOUR ET RECOMMENCEZ (make love and make it again)
Anouk MarkovitsMots clés revolution paris 1960s
... far be it from a French man to interfere with love.
E.A. BucchianeriMots clés love true-love romantic romance french paris france love-story parisians french-people romance-humor french-men
I used to ask myself, ‘Sergei, would you rather spend your money on drink or women?’ and thanks to the club, I spend it on both and am called a patron of the arts.
Melika Dannese HickMots clés humor paris patronage patron-of-the-arts 1894 cabarets dancehall fin-de-siecle ilyse-charpentier paris-patronage parisian-club sergei-rakmanovich witty-wisdom
I look to the right as I cross the bridge and smile to see the tip of the Eiffel Tower soaring over rooftops in the distance on the other side of the river. I've seen it in photographs a thousand times, but seeing it in person for the first time that reminds me that I'm really, truly here, thousands of miles away, across an ocean from home.
Kristin HarmelMots clés paris
Some of us are crèmes brûlées, unfortunately in the presence of those who would rather have corn dogs. We can try to degenerate into corn dogs to make them happy, or we can just accept the fact that we were made for Paris!
C. JoyBell C.Mots clés inspirational-quotes self-worth life-and-living paris self-love accepting-your-worth can-t-make-everyone-happy crème-brûlée crèmes-brûlées
The late 1920s were an age of islands, real and metaphorical. They were an age when Americans by thousands and tens of thousands were scheming to take the next boat for the South Seas or the West Indies, or better still for Paris, from which they could scatter to Majorca, Corsica, Capri or the isles of Greece. Paris itself was a modern city that seemed islanded in the past, and there were island countries, like Mexico, where Americans could feel that they had escaped from everything that oppressed them in a business civilization. Or without leaving home they could build themselves private islands of art or philosophy; or else - and this was a frequent solution - they could create social islands in the shadow of the skyscrapers, groups of close friends among whom they could live as unconstrainedly as in a Polynesian valley, live without moral scruples or modern conveniences, live in the pure moment, live gaily on gin and love and two lamb chops broiled over a coal fire in the grate. That was part of the Greenwich Village idea, and soon it was being copied in Boston, San Francisco, everywhere.
Malcolm CowleyMots clés art love philosophy civilization idealism paris escape greece social-life mexico americans san-francisco boats pure islands lost-generation greenwich-village scruples 1920s oppressive isles
To study in Paris is to be born in Paris!
Victor HugoMots clés paris
The Empire was on the point of turning Paris into the bawdy house of Europe. The gang of fortune-seekers who had succeeded in stealing a throne required a reign of adventures, shady transactions, sold consciences, bought women, and rampant drunkenness.
Émile ZolaMots clés paris
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