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"‘But how are we ever going to be able to fight the French, Prince!’ said Count Rostopchin. ‘How can we take arms against our teachers and our idols? Look at our young men, look at our ladies." The French are our gods, and Paris is our Paradise.’ He began to raise his voice so that everyone could hear. ‘Our fashions are French, our ideas are French, our feelings are French! Look here, you sent Métivier packing...
— Dec 23, 2020 01:57AM
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"‘Yes, he did,’ answered Shinshin. ‘He went down to the Caucasus, then he ran away, and I believe he became a minister with some sort of ruling prince down in Persia, and he went and killed the Shah’s brother. Anyway, all the Moscow ladies are crazy about him! “Dolokhov – the man from Persia” – that’s all you" "need to say. Nowadays you hear nothing but Dolokhov.
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My brother knows him, he’s had dinner with him – the Emperor we should call him nowadays – more than once in Paris, and he used to tell me he’d never seen a sharper and more crafty diplomat – you know, a combination of French finesse and Italian showmanship! You know all those stories about Napoleon and Count Markov? Count Markov was the only man who had the measure of him.
— Dec 16, 2020 11:01PM
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... because he’s a Frenchman and a scoundrel, but our ladies go down on their knees and crawl after him. I was at a party yesterday evening, and, do you know, out of five ladies three were Catholics and they had a papal dispensation that allows them to do their embroidery on Sundays. And they sat there virtually naked, like signboards in a public bath-house – pardon me for saying so. Oh dear me, when you look at our young people today, Prince, you feel like taking Peter the Great’s old cudgel3 out of the museum and cracking a few ribs with it. Do it the Russian way! Soon knock the nonsense out of them!’"
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How true in these lines...The French are our Gods, ever !
Anyway, Paris it is no longer a Paradise, for a while :)) But I will survive. I hope.
Have you read the rest of it in my comment?? :)) Why it's not heaven??
It is not now. Neither nowhere, because of the pandemic. Don't you think ?
Ah, yes. I have forgot the pandemic, for a moment...
