Paris and Its Story

PARIS AND ITS STORY

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BY T. O K E Y
ILLUSTRATED BY KATHERINE KIMBALL & O. F. M. WARD 1904 LONDON: J. M. DENT & CO. NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN CO.

“I will not here omit, that I never rail so much against France as to be out of humour with Paris ; that city has ever had my heart from my infancy; and it has fallen out to me, as of excellent things, that the more of other fine cities I have seen since, the more the beauty of this gains upon my affections. I love it for its own sake, and more for its own native being than the addition of foreign pomp; I love it tenderly even with all its warts and blemishes. I am not a Frenchman but by this great city great in people, great in the felicity or her situation, but above all great and incomparable in variety and diversity of commodities; the glory of France and one of the most noble ornaments of the world.”