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Article: We will always have Paris. It is the permanence of [Derived headline]
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 22, 2007
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We will always have Paris. It is the permanence of the French
capital, its predictability, its uniformity, that sets it apart from
other great cities. London and New York are always in movement,
always changing and yet always themselves. The same might once have
been said of Paris. The elegant, timeless, almost frozen city that
visitors love today used to be an avant-garde, cutting-edge kind of
place: the home of revolutionaries, from Marat to Monet. It used to
be a city of shade, as well as light.
The shade, and much of the city's energy, have been swept over
the boulevard peripherique (ring road) into the dreaded (but lively
and interesting) banlieues (suburbs). Paris proper - a small ...
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