"Parisienne" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... cuff, the stuff which is in fashion, the color which is becoming, that science which makes of the Parisian woman something so charming, so deep, and so dangerous. The words heady woman were invented for the Parisienne. ...
— Les Miserables - Complete in Five Volumes • Victor Hugo
... any dream of Paradise, but none the less amusing. At home in Edinburgh, with the old Scottish master of jerry-building and of "plinths," the atmosphere was truly Scots, tea-coseys and all, while the reminiscences of Paris and Fontainebleau, and the grandeurs et miseres of "the young Americo-Parisienne sculptor" were perfectly fresh to the world, though some of the anecdotes were known to Stevenson's intimates. Mr. James Pinkerton is a laudable creation, with his loyalty, his innocence, his total ignorance and complete lack of taste, and his scampers ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition - Vol. 1 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... clair, Creme de volaille, Brisotins de foie gras, Saumon Napolitain, Filet de boeuf a la moderne, Supreme de perdreaux, Homards a la Parisienne, Gelinottes roties, Salade, Petits pois a l'Anglaise, Ananas Montmorency, Glaces assorties, Cafe—Liqueur (both served ...
— In the Courts of Memory 1858-1875. • L. de Hegermann-Lindencrone
... Parisienne became an outcast because her husband would not forgive an error of her youth. Her love for her son is the great final influence in her career. ...
— What's-His-Name • George Barr McCutcheon
... developments. Upon almost any question of current English opinion and upon most current English social questions, the best studies are in French. But there has been little or no reciprocal activity. The English in France seem to confine their French studies to La Vie Parisienne. It is what they have been led to expect of ...
— War and the Future • H. G. Wells
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