Voila! Sally ... criss crossing Paris ... : Ahhhh, Paris!

Petit dejeuner across the road from our apartment; to the left Place des Vosges, opposite men at work and monsieur dans le dressing-gown surveying the street life ...

their words ...

You can leave Paris but when you come back you discover it again.
(Jeanne Damas)

If I can't wake up to Paris, I want to go back to sleep.
(Pépé le moko)

La France a bâti Paris pour le monde entier.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)

And he had found out that if he wanted to fly, he first had to jump.
(Nina George, The Little Paris Bookshop)

Paris is always a good idea.
(Sabrina - Audrey Hepburn - in Sabrina)

When you're travelling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.
(William Least Heat-Moon, Blue Highways)

I go about here. I don't get tired of it. I never should - it suits me so. I adore the place. I don't want in the least to give it up.
(The Wings of the Dove, Henry James)

Paris ... no day is ever indifferent.
(Almost French, Sarah Turnbull)

'Beware of falling angels' - Sign posted outside the Santa Maria della Salute church in the early 1970s, before the restoration of its marble angels.
(The City of Falling Angels, John Berendt)

Nothing compares to Paris.
(Eustache Deschamps, late 15th century, hymn refrain)

To know Paris is to know a great deal.
(Henry Miller)

reading ...

Les Parisiennes by Anne Sebba
Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant
Venice by Jan Morris
Louis XIV by Vincent Cronin
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
Murder in the Marais by Cara Black
Comment devenir une vraie Parisienne & Ou trouver le calme a Paris - Paris est a nous collection
Paris Secrets by Janelle McCulloch
An Hour from Paris by Annabel Simms
Paris Tango by Carla Coulson
Paris Then and Now by Peter & Oriel Caine
A Thousand Days in Venice by Marlena de Blasi
Murder in Clichy by Cara Black
Venice is a Fish by Tiziano Scarpa
The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt
Almost French by Sarah Turnbull
A Writer's Paris by Eric Maisel

Voila! Sally ... criss crossing Paris ...

Wednesday, 2 September 2009

Ahhhh, Paris!

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