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Inside this Book – No single element of Paris evokes the city’s ambiguous allure more poignantly than the Seine. A slow arcing gray-green curve, the river reflects the raked tin rooftops arrayed along its embankments, and the temperamental skies of the Île-de-France. Sea breezes sweep fresh Atlantic air up it into the city. Each day when I step out for my constitutional around the Île Saint-Louis—a ten-minute walk from where my wife, Alison, and I live—I ask myself what Paris would be without the Seine. The answer is simple: it wouldn’t. At once water source and sewer, lifeline, moat, and swelling menace, the Seine suckled nascent French civilization. It made the founding of Paris possible, transforming a settlement of mud huts into a capital city whose symbol since the year 1210 is a ship, with the catchy device Fluctuat nec mergitur: “It is tossed upon the waves without being submerged” (and it sounds better in Latin). For centuries this murky waterway has filled Parisians’ hearts, minds, and noses with equal measures of inspiration or despair.
- Full Book Name – Paris Paris
- Author of this Book – David Downie
- Language – English
- Book Genre – Travel
- Download Format – PDF
- Size – 7 MB
- eBook Pages – 336
Paris Paris by David Downie PDF Book
- Inside this Book – No single element of Paris evokes the city’s ambiguous allure more poignantly than the Seine. A slow arcing gray-green curve, the river reflects the raked tin rooftops arrayed along its embankments, and the temperamental skies of the Île-de-France. Sea breezes sweep fresh Atlantic air up it into the city. Each day when I step out for my constitutional around the Île Saint-Louis—a ten-minute walk from where my wife, Alison, and I live—I ask myself what Paris would be without the Seine. The answer is simple: it wouldn’t. At once water source and sewer, lifeline, moat, and swelling menace, the Seine suckled nascent French civilization. It made the founding of Paris possible, transforming a settlement of mud huts into a capital city whose symbol since the year 1210 is a ship, with the catchy device Fluctuat nec mergitur: “It is tossed upon the waves without being submerged” (and it sounds better in Latin). For centuries this murky waterway has filled Parisians’ hearts, minds, and noses with equal measures of inspiration or despair.
- Full Book Name – Paris Paris
- Author of this Book – David Downie
- Language – English
- Book Genre – Travel
- Download Format – PDF
- Size – 7 MB
- eBook Pages – 336
