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  1. Gustave Flaubert _ Madame Bovary

    De todas las borrascas que caen sobre el amor, ninguna lo enfría y lo desarraiga tanto como las peticiones de dinero.
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  2. Dava Sobel _ Longitude: The True Story of a

    Earlier maps had underestimated the distances to other continents and exaggerated the outlines of individual nations. Now global dimensions could be set, with authority, by the celestial spheres. Indeed, King Louis XIV of France, confronted with a revised map of his domain based on accurate longitude measurements, reportedly complained that he was losing more territory to his astronomers than to his enemies.
    book-quotehumorousfrancelongitude

  3. Susan Vreeland _ Lisette's List

    If you feel joy when you do something unselfish for him, and would just as soon do it in secret as openly, then that rings of the true metal"
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  4. Victor Hugo _ Les Misérables

    The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain neutral. All social questions achieve their finality around that blade. The scaffold is an image. It is not merely a framework, a machine, a lifeless mechanism of wood, iron, and rope. It is as though it were a being having its own dark purpose, as though the framework saw, the machine listened, and the mechanism understood; as though that arrangement of wood and iron and rope expressed a will. In the hideous picture which its presence evokes it seems to be most terribly a part of what it does. It is the executioner's accomplice; it consumes, devouring flesh and drinking blood. It is a kind of monster created by the judge and the craftsman; a spectre seeming to live an awful life born of the death it deals.
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  5. James Baldwin _ Another Country

    It's a great city, Paris, a beautiful city––and––it was very good for me.
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  6. Maureen Johnson _ The Last Little Blue Envelope

    I'd love to be a tabletop in Paris, where food is art and life combined in one, where people gather and talk for hours. I want lovers to meet over me. I'd want to be covered in drops of candle wax and breadcrumbs and rings from the bottom of wineglasses. I would never be lonely, and I would always serve a good purpose.
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  7. David Sedaris _ Me Talk Pretty One Day

    The walking tour guides one through the city's various landmarks, reciting bits of information the listener might find enlightening. I learned, for example, that in the late 1500s my little neighborhood square was a popular spot for burning people alive. Now lined with a row of small shops, the tradition continues, though in a figurative rather than literal sense.
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  8. Bill Bryson _ Neither Here nor There:

    and let's face it, the French Army couldn't beat a girls hockey team
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  9. Gordon Korman _ One False Note

    I hate France. It's like the whole country's on a diet"
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  10. Patrick Süskind _ Perfume: The Story of a

    Духи живут во времени; у них есть своя молодость, своя зрелость и своя старость. И только если они во всех трёх возрастах источают одинаково приятный аромат, их можно считать удачными.
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  11. Melanie Dobson _ Chateau of Secrets

    With a quick thank-you, I focused my attention on the pastry he brought. The flavors melted in my mouth- warm chocolate and melted butter and the flaky sweet crust. This was what I loved about France. A keen appreciation for the simplicity and sweetness of life. The French seemed to savor their minutes along with their food.
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  12. Charles Dickens _ A Tale of Two Cities

    You are hard at work madam ," said the man near her.Yes," Answered Madam Defarge ; " I have a good deal to do."What do you make, Madam ?"Many things."For instance ---"For instance," returned Madam Defarge , composedly ,Shrouds."The man moved a little further away, as soon as he could, feeling it mightily close and oppressive .
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