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100 Quotes On: Paris in Quotes
100 Quotes On: Paris in Quotes
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This book is part of Hyperink's best little books series. This best little book is 5,100+ words of fast, entertaining information on a highly demanded topic. Based on reader feedback (including yours!), we may expand this book in the future. If we do so, we'll send a free copy to all previous buyers.
ABOUT THE BOOK
He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo. Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic. Nothing is more sublime. - Victor Hugo
Quite a statement, right? Yet Hugo, a French writer best known for his novels The Hunchback of Notre-Dame written in the 1830s, and Les Miserables written in the 1860s, speaks for many when he describes the belle villle Paris.
What is it about Paris that has brought out some of the most unparalleled quotes throughout history? Rick Stevens (2010) tells us that Paris has been the cultural capital of Europe for centuries. Indeed, Paris is a city historically known around the globe for love, for fashion, for it architecture, for its culture, and for its people; those who have lived in or visited the city have been moved by these qualities.
MEET THE AUTHOR
Susan Gabrielle has had work published in The Christian Science Monitor, TheBatShat, New Verse News, and local publications, and was a finalist in the Tiny Lights Narrative Essay Contest. She currently teaches writing and literature classes as a university instructor.
EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK
Entering a relative time of peace, La Ville-Lumiere or the City of Lights gained its name because [i]n 1829 Paris became the first city in the world to be lit by gas lamps. With its salons, its cafes and restaurants, its opera, symphony and multitude of theatres, it glowed with a spiritual brilliance every bit as dazzling as its streets. Downie says, Historian Jules Michelet was probably the first to call Paris La Lumiere du Monde, Light of the World, a beacon for humanity.
Napoleon Bonapartes nephew, known as Louis Napoleon, came out of exile in the United States to rule France in the mid-1800s, but followed in his uncles footsteps of building projects for Paris. Napoleon wanted to turn Paris into Rome under the Caesars, only with louder music and more marble. And it was done. His architects game him the Arc de Triomphe and the Madeleine. His nephew Napoleon III wanted to turn Paris into Rome with Versailles piled on top, and it was done. His architects gave him the Paris Opera, an addition to the Louvre and miles of new boulevards. Perhaps Napoleon III was spurred on by Voltaires words: In less than ten years, Paris could become the marvel of the world.
Buy a copy to keep reading!
ABOUT THE BOOK
He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo. Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic. Nothing is more sublime. - Victor Hugo
Quite a statement, right? Yet Hugo, a French writer best known for his novels The Hunchback of Notre-Dame written in the 1830s, and Les Miserables written in the 1860s, speaks for many when he describes the belle villle Paris.
What is it about Paris that has brought out some of the most unparalleled quotes throughout history? Rick Stevens (2010) tells us that Paris has been the cultural capital of Europe for centuries. Indeed, Paris is a city historically known around the globe for love, for fashion, for it architecture, for its culture, and for its people; those who have lived in or visited the city have been moved by these qualities.
MEET THE AUTHOR
Susan Gabrielle has had work published in The Christian Science Monitor, TheBatShat, New Verse News, and local publications, and was a finalist in the Tiny Lights Narrative Essay Contest. She currently teaches writing and literature classes as a university instructor.
EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK
Entering a relative time of peace, La Ville-Lumiere or the City of Lights gained its name because [i]n 1829 Paris became the first city in the world to be lit by gas lamps. With its salons, its cafes and restaurants, its opera, symphony and multitude of theatres, it glowed with a spiritual brilliance every bit as dazzling as its streets. Downie says, Historian Jules Michelet was probably the first to call Paris La Lumiere du Monde, Light of the World, a beacon for humanity.
Napoleon Bonapartes nephew, known as Louis Napoleon, came out of exile in the United States to rule France in the mid-1800s, but followed in his uncles footsteps of building projects for Paris. Napoleon wanted to turn Paris into Rome under the Caesars, only with louder music and more marble. And it was done. His architects game him the Arc de Triomphe and the Madeleine. His nephew Napoleon III wanted to turn Paris into Rome with Versailles piled on top, and it was done. His architects gave him the Paris Opera, an addition to the Louvre and miles of new boulevards. Perhaps Napoleon III was spurred on by Voltaires words: In less than ten years, Paris could become the marvel of the world.
Buy a copy to keep reading!
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