Nooks and Corners of Old Paris

Nooks & Corners of Old Paris

Paris! What visions this magic word calls uphistoric Paris, with its palaces, churches, monuments, streets, and squares; the Paris of literature and its admirable procession of writers, poets, thinkers, dramatists, philosophers, and humourists; the Paris of society, its ftes, receptions, fashions, elegancies, and snobbism; the Paris of politicians, the Paris of journalists, religious Paris, the Paris of the police, bohemian Paris, industrial Paris. And how many others still! So many passions, events, and interests clash, mingle, and unravel again in it that a study on this admirable and complex city is no sooner finished than it is almost needful to write it over again, the truth of the day before being no longer that of the morrow, the accurate document of yesterday being found incorrect this morning. Our ambition is more modest, and our title indicates a programme"Nooks and Corners of Paris." Deliberately neglecting that which is too well known, already too much describedhaving neither the desire nor the pretension to compose a "Guide-book for the Foreigner in Paris"; seeking only the rare, if not the never-yet-brought-to-lightwe would simply give to those who, like us, adore our old City a little of the joy[Pg lviii] we have each day in "strolling" about this incomparable Town. Our object is to continue, by means of walks through what remains to us of the dear old Paris, the series of documents painted, pencilled, or engraved which are contained in the Carnavalet Museum. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 40306
Author: Cain, Georges
Release Date: Jul 23, 2012
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Translator: Lawton, Frederick