Transcriber's note: Minor spelling inconsistencies, mainly hyphenated words, have been harmonised.Obvious printer errors have been repaired.
Accents:
In French sentences, most of them italicized, accents have been added, when necessary, according to the French spelling rules of the time.
In an English context, French words have no accents if there are no accents in the original text.In case of an inconsistent use of accents, the French spelling has been favoured.
The Latin numbers (i and ii) in the text refers to transcriber's notes at the end of this e-book.
The advertisement for other books in the series have been removed from page 3 to the end of this e-book.
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The Story of Paris
Winged Victory of Samothrace.
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The Story of Paris
by Thomas Okey
With Illustrations by
Katherine Kimball
London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd.
Aldine House, 10-13 Bedford Street
Covent Garden, W.C. * * *
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co.—1919
First Edition, 1906
Reprinted, 1911; July, 1919
"I will not forget this, that I can never mutinie so much againstFrance but I must needes looke on Paris with a favourable eye: it hathmy hart from my infancy; whereof it hath befalne me, as of excellentthings, the more other faire and stately cities I have seene since,the more hir beauty hath power and doth still usurpingly gaine upon myaffections. I love that citie for hir own sake, and more in hir onlysubsisting and owne being, than when it is fall fraught andembellished with forraine pompe and borrowed garish ornaments. I lovehir so tenderly that hir spottes, her blemishes and hir warts aredeare unto me. I am no perfect French man but by this great citie,great in people, great in regard of the felicitie of hir situation,but above all great and incomparable in varietie and diversitie ofcommodities; the glory of France and one of the noblest and chiefeornaments of the world. God of his mercy free hir and chase away allour divisions from hir. So long as she shall continue, so long shall Inever want a home or a retreat to retire and shrowd myselfe at alltimes."
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