My french loot today...vintage postcards of French iconic tourist spots (yey!). French colonial architecture is beautiful and magical, probably the best in the world. I haven't been to any of these places yet, but, someday I will. I wish I could fly to Paris right now.
For now, I'll leave you with this quote from Anne
Rice {Interview With the Vampire} that beautifully describes Paris :
“Paris was a universe whole and entire unto
herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of
Napoleon III with her towering buildings, her massive cathedrals, her grand
boulevards and ancient winding medieval streets--as vast and indestructible as
nature itself. All was embraced by her, by her volatile and enchanted populace
thronging the galleries, the theaters, the cafes, giving birth over and over to
genius and sanctity, philosophy and war, frivolity and the finest art; so it seemed
that if all the world outside her were to sink into darkness, what was fine,
what was beautiful, what was essential might there still come to its finest
flower. Even the majestic trees that graced and sheltered her streets were
attuned to her--and the waters of the Seine, contained and beautiful as they
wound through her heart; so that the earth on that spot, so shaped by blood and
consciousness, had ceased to be the earth and had become Paris.”
...and from the words of Ernest Hemingway:
“If you
are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go
for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.”
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