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“Madame sensed me weakening. ‘One doesn’t have a need for beautiful lingerie, one has a desire for it!’ she declared, triumphantly.”
― Paris Dreaming
― Paris Dreaming
“Studying Liberty in the Louvre that day, I wondered if French women sensed a pressure to be both sexy and smart. Perhaps they felt just as Liberty might have: frustrated that she’d broken free of her corsets, only to find she couldn’t escape from society’s expectations that women should be, above all, seductive. Or did they simply accept that women were a package of contradictions, complicatedly wrapped up in layers of lace and feminine frills?”
― Paris Dreaming
― Paris Dreaming
“If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.”
― Maxims
― Maxims
“Goncourt observed in a rare compliment, although he felt compelled to add that the dinner included “some grouse whose scented flesh Daudet compared to an old courtesan’s flesh marinaded in a bidet.”14”
― Dawn of the Belle Epoque: The Paris of Monet, Zola, Bernhardt, Eiffel, Debussy, Clemenceau, and Their Friends
― Dawn of the Belle Epoque: The Paris of Monet, Zola, Bernhardt, Eiffel, Debussy, Clemenceau, and Their Friends
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