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Inspiration: Paris

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Paris is love and above all love for life, and this, I believe, will never change. It's been in my thoughts a lot lately since I had to take some life decisions, so here is a little inspiration from vintage Paris :)

Recently I read this quote by John Berger about cities and sex and age, which went something like that: 'Every city has sex and age which has nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine, so is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and in this, hasn't changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.' You agree? :)

Nurse Edith Shain and a Navy sailor celebrating the end of World War II in August 1945. Published in Life magazine, by Robert Doisneau

Demonstration - Paris - 1968

Robert Doisneau

Audrey Hepburn on the Eiffel Tower 

Thierry Lompar

Chez Maxim, Art nouveau Restaurant

The Moulin Rouge cabaret, January 1929

Brassaï

A little girl hands a posy of lilies to a police officer on duty at the Porte Saint-Denis in Paris, circa 1920