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Title: The Story of Paris

Author: Thomas Okey

Illustrator: Katherine Kimball

Release Date: August 28, 2008 [EBook #26450]

Language: English

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_The Story of Paris_

[Illustration: _Winged Victory of Samothrace._]

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 against
France but I must needes looke on Paris with a favourable eye: it hath
my hart from my infancy; whereof it hath befalne me, as of excellent
things, the more other faire and stately cities I have seene since,
the more hir beauty hath power and doth still usurpingly gaine upon my
affections. I love that citie for hir own sake, and more in hir only
subsisting and owne being, than when it is fall fraught and
embellished with forraine pompe and borrowed garish ornaments. I love
hir so tenderly that hir spottes, her blemishes and hir warts are
deare 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 incomparab