That Sweet Enemy: The British and the French from the Sun King to the Present by Isabelle Tombs & Robert Tombs

Author:Isabelle Tombs & Robert Tombs [Tombs, Isabelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781446426234
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2010-12-07T00:00:00+00:00

PILGRIMS OF PLEASURE: THE PRINCE OF WALES AND OSCAR WILDE

I want to make my life itself a work of art. I know the price of a fine verse,

but also of a rose, of a vintage wine, of a colourful tie, of a delicate dish.

OSCAR WILDE, Paris, 189129

See the twinkle in me eye?

Just come back from France, that’s why

Do you like my make-up? Ain’t it great?

It’s the latest thing from Paris straight

And I’d like to go again

To Paris on the Seine

For Paris is a proper Pantomime

And if they’d only shift the Hackney Road and plant it over there

I’d like to live in Paris all the time!

MARIE LLOYD, ‘The Coster Girl in Paris’, 1912

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