Paris Nights, and Other Impressions of Places and People

Paris Nights, and Other Impressions of Places and People

The first invitation I ever received into a purely Parisian interior might have been copied out of a novel by Paul Bourget. Its lure was thus phrased: Un peu de musique et dagrables femmes. It answered to my inward vision of Paris. My experiences in London, which fifteen years earlier I had entered with my mouth open as I might have entered some city of Oriental romance, had, of course, done little to destroy my illusions about Paris, for the ingenuousness of the artist is happily indestructible. Hence, my inward vision of Paris was romantic, based on the belief that Paris was essentially different. Nothing more banal in London than a little music, or even some agreeable women! But what a difference between a little music and un peu de musique! What an exciting difference between agreeable women and agrables femmes! After all, this difference remains nearly intact to this day. Nobody who has not lived intimately in and with Paris can appreciate the unique savour of that word femmes. Women is a fine word, a word which, breathed in a certain tone, will make all meneven bishops, misogynists, and political propagandistsfall to dreaming! But femmes is yet more potent. There cling to it the associations of a thousand years of dalliance in a land where dalliance is passionately understood. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 55116
Author: Bennett, Arnold
Release Date: Jul 15, 2017
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Illustrator: Rickards, Edwin Alfred, 1872-1920