I love Paris in the summer, when it sizzles. Cole Porter Music : Petite Fleur - Sidney Bechet Paris in August

I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris. Ed Bradley

I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I'd already been translating French poetry, I'd been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went. Paul Auster

I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I'd already been translating French poetry, I'd been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went.

Paul Auster

With an apple, I will astonish Paris . Paul Cezanne

With an apple, I will astonish Paris .

Paul Cezanne

You can't escape the past in Paris, and yet what's so wonderful about it is that the past and present intermingle so intangibly that it doesn't seem to burden . Allen Ginsberg

You can't escape the past in Paris, and yet what's so wonderful about it is that the past and present intermingle so intangibly that it doesn't seem to burden .

Allen Ginsberg

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast . Ernest Hemingway

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast .

Ernest Hemingway

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris. Friedrich Nietzsche

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language . Mark Twain

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language .

Mark Twain

Aug-09 Photos : Catherine

Photos : Catherine