Dream a Little Bit in Paris
Paris is romantic, if you walk down the street with your imagination while whispering in his ear. As I said in another post, I heard that Paris is the word most used in movie titles. (You can verify this by googling “movies of Paris” or going to the Amazon and enter the same for DVDs. I’ve just posted a sampling of their lists.)

If you go to Paris in search of love, it is best to take it with you, though. A French national sports flirts. Unfortunately, for those who do not speak French, they flirt with the spirit and innuendo. That is, until they have a few drinks and flirt becomes very personal. But for most, it ends with a pun. I hate talking about this, but surveys have shown that the French are a bit less crowded than Americans, Swedes, Germans and British. But, hey, go do your own investigation.

(In case you are not running or moving, to France to do your own investigation, here’s a link to a very interesting study on monogamy, flirtation, one night stands, etc. with France over the USA)

The French are not very religious, meaning they are not going to church and they do not talk much about religion. Compared to Americans, where about 90 percent believe in God, the French are really agnostics. But when the thought of their lack of promiscuity, I tend to think that perhaps their disciplinary education has something to do with their Catholic tradition (I think the country is approximately 93% Catholic). Put this way, they do not go drinking and wonder how on earth he went to bed with a stranger. (The incidence of drunkenness in France is well under way and America, well below England.)

You can see in the movies romantic Paris. This is all fine silks and ornaments (see pictures below in the film Marie-Antoinette). And the tradition of writers and artists in Bohemia, America as well as French. And I think that much of the novel comes from the accordion, which has become somehow connected to the “good old days” before the II World War I or World War days when life was slow and musical and there were wonderful dance halls in the old windmills (see the symbol of the Moulin Rouge) and on the banks of rivers.

As any woman will tell you romance lives mostly in the imagination and be a people and Latin poetry, the French have cultivated the imagination.

So do not expect romance to Paris to serve you and your girlfriend, boyfriend, partner, spouse. When you land at Charles de Gaulle airport, trying to overcome the paranoia and pragmatism to travel and dream a little. Paris meet you halfway, at least.

A tour bus video of Paris is like being there.

(If you want an Amazon “Heart” list of many movies with Paris in the title or as an object click here for “Paris in the cinema.”

Incidentally, as a film, I did not like Marie Antoinette with Kirsten Dunst, because, as many critics say, the temporary one was. stiff and 2. not credible. But the sets and costumes were really wonderful. What I dislike more than the story took place more than 20 years and there has been no attempt to show all of any change in the characters, especially the king and queen. He made it all quite unbelievable for me, but it was great as a spectacle. I also think that the movie was too easy on Marie-Antoinette and Louis XVI. Their biggest problem is that 1. They were both very bull-headed and listened to no one but their closest associates and friends (remember a certain American president). And 2. The king believed, literally, it was a gift from God for the French and without having all the powers of the nation disintegrates. I feel sad that they were both murdered, and their son, but in many respects, they did nothing to prevent the tragedy. Oh, yes, they have made a very clumsy attempt to escape the border at the last minute for the Austrians and their common war against France. Again, be taken as obvious and huge car and be late for their appointment with their military guards has been very well their fault. The rest, as they say, is history.