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Paris & London have this difference, that Paris exists for the foreigner, serves him; whilst in London is the Londoner, who is much in the foreigner’s way. England has built London for its own use. France has built Paris for the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
copyright with permission of Harvard University Press – (page 390) of His Journals…. (18471856)
And for my friends the French spoken ‘market’ (we’re SO global – WHEN will I have my Swiss German spoken Flickr site?! LOL ):
Il y a, entre Londres et Paris, cette différence que Paris est fait pour l’étranger et Londres pour l’Anglais. L’Angleterre a bâti Londres pour son propre usage, la France a bâti Paris pour le monde entier.
I also loved what Emerson wrote just before the a.m. quote! It’s about the ‘economy of water’…..
In Paris the stranger is struck with the beautiful fountains on the Place de la Concorde and gives Paris the preference to London. But this water is not drinkable, & the houses in Paris have no wells or pumps & buy all their water by the bucket from water carriers who bring it from certain springs….. – (and, later on, dated May-June 1848:) Paris has great merits as a city. Its river is made the greatest pleasure to the eye by the quays & bridges: its fountains are noble & copious….. (next page is not accessible on the web)
For us, nowadays, drinking water is NOT a problem, and in any case, nobody would be tempted by the waters of the Seine – but THAT is not the point!!! The Seine is there to dream about, to boat, to eat a highly overpriced meal ON the waters of this history and dream-laden river, it’s mostly to walk along on the Left and Right Bank, to visit also the two islands which must be the most expensive ground of the whole of France….
We had loads of fun on our (so far) four trips on the boats cruising the river Seine, it’s quite simply and most definitely the best way to see this city! THEN, when you’ve done the cruise, you can still decide to either go on to the Jardin du Luxembourg or any other park, or to do some light shopping or just walk to any of the close by museums, churches, cross the bridges and stare down in the same fashion as we starred up just some time ago, from our boat….
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