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Paris: The Secret History Paris: The Secret History by Andrew Hussey
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“Buiten Parijs werden de weerspannige Parijzenaars zowel bespot als gevreesd. Rabelais noemde de 'Parijzenaar' halverwege de zestiende eeuw een 'gros maroufle', een gewetenloze, vulgaire en valse zwerfkat. Hij ging er vol vertrouwen van uit dat deze benaming in heel Frankrijk en ook in Parijs een lach van herkenning zou wekken.”
Andrew Hussey, Paris: The Secret History
“An Autopsy on an Old Whore Paris arouses strong emotions. ‘How different was my first sight of Paris from what I had expected,’ wrote Jean-Jacques Rousseau, one of the first explorers of the modern city. ‘I had imagined a town as beautiful as it was large. I saw only dirty, stinking alleys, ugly black houses, a stench of filth and poverty. My distaste still lingers.’1 Years ago, I arrived in Paris for the first time, stepping down into the street from the metro station at Barbès and, like Rousseau and countless others arriving in the city for the first time, I did not see what I had expected to find.”
Andrew Hussey, Paris: The Secret History