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"...the great merit of the place is that one can arrange one's life here exactly as one pleases... there are facilities for every kind of habit and taste, and everything is accepted and understood."
Henry James, in a letter to a friend (1876)
Gentlemen at Paris booksellers on the banks of the Seine River.
"...the weather is icy, but Paris looks beautiful. Everything is white & every morning the sun disappears in a pink sky. The fountains are just a bubble in their basins of ice...I am going to enjoy life in Paris I know. It is so human and there is something noble in the city...It is a real city, old and fine and life plays in it for everybody to see."
Katherine Mansfield in a letter to a friend (1913)
Paris bridge and the Seine River.
She goes to the sea
Passing through Paris.
The Seine is lucky
She has no concerns
And walks between the quays
In her beautiful green dress
And her golden lights.
-Jacques Prévert, Chanson de la Seine
Paris Opera House.