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Article: WHEN POLITICS, LITERATURE, ART COLLIDED TO CREATE `PARIS'
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 1, 2002
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Begin with this: Paris is over. It is, like its buildings, its
politics, its culture, more monument than movement, more a product of
what it was than a promise of something to come.
It may not always feel like it is over - when, for example, you
are checking into the velour swank of the Hotel Costes, sampling a
sauteed chicken breast laced with foie gras, or watching a young
musician called "M" rock tens of thousands of fans with a red, white,
and blue light show on the steps of the Assemblee Nationale.
Because, in many ways, Paris is still a great city, an intense
island of image that can compel, intrigue, and lure: poets and
painters, lovers of art and architecture, honeymooning couples ...