You start learning French. You have no doubts whatsoever why. Yet the goalpost slightly shifts because France starts growing on you, and, most of all, it IS Paris that you genuinely like the most.
Paris of Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities" where, the futility of the erstwhile victim becoming the present victimiser came alive, Paris of Hugo's Notre Dame, Paris you have met in so very many literary texts comes alive. Why, I show my "étudiants" videos of le Pont Neuf, la Seine, l'Arc de Triomphe, le Louvre, and so on whenever some tricky point of the feckless French grammar has to be driven home.
Paris, a city where history shares
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