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“Sometimes a revolution turns into an actual government, or at the very least an actual way of life that contrasts with days past like blood on snow. Such was the case in France, where even as the g...”
“Thomas Jefferson asked himself In what country on earth would you rather live He first answered Certainly in my own where are all my friends my relations and the earliest and sweetest affections a...”
“There's nowhere that life feels more eternal, your dimwit youth more important, than Paris.”
“The lives of thousands of young Frenchmen were ready for this literary bath of blood and sentiment in the 1830's. Their fathers and grandfathers had had their romanticism in the raw: the drama of t...”
“... but well be back for dinner especially if youre having soup de jour!Now, Troy! You know very well that soup de jour means soup of the day. It changes every time!”
“We're becoming slaves; the war scatters us in all directions, takes away everything we own, snatches the bread from out of our mouths; let me at least retain the right to decide my own destiny, to ...”
“I was France.”
“I observed on most collected stones the imprints of innumerable plant fragments which were so different from those which are growing in the Lyonnais, in the nearby provinces, and even in the rest o...”
“Forty million Frenchmen can't be wrong.”
“France freed from that monster Bonaparte must again become the most agreeable country on earth. It would be the second choice of all whose ties of family and fortune give a preference to some ot...”
“Ye sons of France awake to glory! Hark! Hark! what myriads bid you rise! Your children wives and grandsires hoary Behold their tears and hear their cries!”
“France always has plenty men of talent but it is always deficient in men of action and high character.”
“If you ask the great city, Who is this person?, she will answer, He is my child.”
“Adele and Vladimir danced along the banks of the River Seine, the loveliness of spring a backdrop all around them.”
“Life, oblivious to his grief, continued”
“I had forgotten how gently time passes in Paris. As lively as the city is, there's a stillness to it, a peace that lures you in. In Paris, with a glass of wine in your hand, you can just be.All alo...”
“We are outside again, walking, when he takes a bite and stops dead. "Wow," he says after a minute. Then, "Wow," again.I smile. Everyone remembers their first taste of Paris. This will be his.”
“Reticence was clearly a national characteristic, even if the other person spoke French.”
“He wanted to tell the baby that Paris was like a poem in stone.”
“He was a Parisian, he said. You can never be sure what Parisians believe in beyond Paris of course.”
