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As we soak up the atmosphere, sights, and flavors of Paris, we start to understand the love affair that people have had with this city. Going back to the time of The American Revolution, we know that Benjamin Franklin was enchanted with Paris. Thomas Jefferson also enjoyed Paris, but for John Adams, it was just a necessary chore to come across the Atlantic to attend to his diplomatic duties.
Lots of people in the arts have rhapsodized about Paris. Duke and Harburg composed April in Paris in 1933, and we have enjoyed versions of it by Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, and Ella Fitzgerald. And, who could forget the line "We'll always have Paris" spoken by Humphrey Bogart to Ingrid Bergman in the 1942 film, Casablanca?
Then, there was the show tune, I Love Paris from Can-Can, a 1953 musical. Cole Porter composed it, and we've loved versions by Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald for many years. And, most recently, we enjoyed Woody Allen's 2011 film, Midnight In Paris, his homage to 1920s Paris when the greats like Dali, Picasso, Cole Porter, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, all lived and created here.
Whatever it is that has moved the artists to some of their greatest masterpieces seems to stir something in almost everybody who visits Paris. What a treat it is to be here!
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