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In the early 1830s the writer George Sand, a woman, had a man's overcoat and a pair of boots made for her so she could have the same pleasure - to walk the streets of Paris free to look at whatever she liked. In her autobiography she writes: "I can't express the pleasure my boots gave me ... With those little iron-shot heels, I was on solid pavement. I flew from one end of Paris to the other. It seemed to me that I could go round the world. And then, my clothes feared nothing. I ran out in every
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― Be with Me Always: Essays
― Be with Me Always: Essays
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The greatest pleasure does not consist in experiencing new things, but in savoring the infinite variation of what we already know
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― Flâneur: The Art of Wandering the Streets of Paris
― Flâneur: The Art of Wandering the Streets of Paris
