"Parisienne" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... pictures cut out of La Vie Parisienne were tacked on to the walls to remind them of the arts and graces of an older mode of life, and to keep them human by the sight of a pretty face (oh, to see ...
— Now It Can Be Told • Philip Gibbs
... (supposed) unwillingness to visit Jerusalem. It was probably far from being what it is now, or even what it was when Pierre Loti saw it, for there was no railway from Jaffa in our time. Still, what Loti pathetically describes as 'une banalite de banlieue parisienne,' was even then too painfully casting its vulgar shadows before it. And it was rather with the forlorn eyes of the sentimental Frenchman than with the veneration of Dean Stanley, that we wandered about the ever- sacred Aceldama of ...
— Tracks of a Rolling Stone • Henry J. Coke
... left hand, and began to tick off her qualifications. "My father was a Swede, my mother was Irish, I was educated in France from the age of three to eighteen, I married an Italian. Brussels I know almost as well as dear Paris. I can be Parisienne or Bruxelloise—whichever ...
— The Lost Naval Papers • Bennet Copplestone
... 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 ...
— What's-His-Name • George Barr McCutcheon
... dainty Parisienne stepped into the compartment. She was clad in a navy blue tailleur with a very smart pair of high navy blue kid boots and small navy blue silk hat. The other occupants of the carriage consisted of a well-to-do old gentleman in mufti, who, I decided, was ...
— Fanny Goes to War • Pat Beauchamp
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