
If you enjoy street musicians and fire-eaters, if you hunger for the perfect meal perfectly served, if you occasionally prefer a chilled Sancerre over your usual red bug juice, if you appreciate sophisticated well-dressed women and men with manners, if you love art, books, politics, history, and architecture, if you can accept racehorses running in the wrong direction and don't mind dogs in restaurants, if you like to start the day uttering mellifluous words like pamplemousse and brioche, if you favor the cool feel of zinc bar tops and the warm look of red awnings, if it seems entirely logical that ducks have numbers while the streets and avenues do not, if you like to navigate the city underground, sip your coffee on the sidewalk in the morning and at night, dine on a boat or a tower,if you are a rabid egalitarian but don’t mind being indulged like an aristocrat now and again, if you like museums that are like churches and churches that are like museums,if you sense that you are a reincarnation of Hemingway or Fitzgerald, if you are a romantic, a realist, an existentialist or a sentimental fool, or if you are just an ordinary person who happens to revel in the sights, smells, colors, clatter and organized chaos of a great and elegant city, is there any place in the world you would rather be tonight than Paris?
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