“Paris is the happiest city in the world tonight. All Paris is dancing in the streets.”
Goldstein, Richard. " Larry LeSueur, Pioneering War Correspondent, Dies at 93 http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/07/arts/larry-lesueur-pioneering-war-correspondent-dies-at-93.html", (obituary), The New York Times, February 7, 2003, accessed June 21, 2011, from a radio broadcast following the 1944 Liberation of Paris.
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“Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.”
Source: The Shadow of the Wind
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Tourists in Paris, from Outside: Selected Writings (1984).
“I have a glove into which I can put your whole city of Paris.”
Context: Allegedly told to Francis I of France. The glove, gant in French, is a reference to the city of Ghent (Gandes in French), where Charles was born.
They are persons who identify themselves by signs on their residences and who are ready at the dinner hour in correct attire, so that they can be quickly called upon if a dinner party should consist of thirteen persons. In the measure of its expansion, the city offers more and more the decisive conditions of the division of labor. It offers a circle which through its size can absorb a highly diverse variety of services.
Source: The Metropolis and Modern Life (1903), p. 420
“Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.”
Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings (1992).