"Only the great distance that separates Paris from my native town prevented me from going back.. ..It was the Louvre t…"

":1) It concerns an already structured social space, of which it changes the form, the social content and/or function."

":2) It is based on public initiative, whatever the legal or financial form of the renewal agency, where private enter…"

"I am working in Paris. I cannot for a single day get the thought out of my head that there probably exists something …"

"Lindbergh's arrival in Paris became the defining moment of his life, that event on which all his future actions hinge…"

"The urban renewal programme is one of the most spectacular urban programmes to have been undertaken in Paris; it is c…"

"In Paris a queer little man you may see, A little man all in gray; Rosy and round as an apple is he, Content with the…"

"We'll always have Paris."

"Paris dictates fashion to the whole world."

"Paris is a city of amusements and pleasures, where four fifths of the inhabitants die of the spleen."