"I had a great Desire to see Paris, & its Curiosities: that being generally esteemed the Centre of Taste, Magnificence, Beauty & every Thing that is polite."
— Paris

January 1, 1970

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William Cole, journal entry (9 May 1766), quoted in William Cole, A Journal of My Journey to Paris in the Year 1765, ed. Francis Griffin Stokes (1931), p. 1