“Whereas America or England has a myth of progress, and with it a clear sense of a remote past, very few people in France are persuaded that the country is better now than it was back then—or any worse either.”
Adam Gopnik, from the 2013 introduction to Paris, France by Gertrude Stein
I’m sitting in the garden of the Villa Kérylos on the F…
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