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hyphenated words, have been harmonised. Obvious printer
errors have been repaired.
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In French sentences, most of them italicized, accents have
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spelling rules of the time.
In an English context, French words have no accents if
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inconsistent use of accents, the French spelling has been
favoured.
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The Story of Paris
Samothrace.
Winged Victory of Samothrace.
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The Story of Paris
by Thomas Okey
With Illustrations by
Katherine Kimball
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London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd.
Aldine House, 10-13 Bedford Street
Covent Garden, W.C. * * *
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co.—1919
First Edition, 1906
Reprinted, 1911; July, 1919
"I will not forget this, that I can never mutinie so much against France but I must needes looke on Paris with a favourable eye: it hath my hart from my infancy; whereof it hath befalne me, as of excellent things, the more other faire and stately cities I have seene since, the more hir beauty hath power and doth still usurpingly gaine upon my affections. I love that citie for hir own sake, and more in hir only subsisting and owne being, than when it is fall fraught and embellished with forraine pompe and borrowed garish ornaments. I love hir so tenderly that hir spottes, her blemishes and hir warts are deare unto me. I am no perfect French man but by this great citie, great in people, great in regard of the felicitie of hir situation, but above all great and incomparable in varietie and diversitie of
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