CHAPTER V.THE FAIR AMERICANS.
Formerly Paris belonged to the Parisians, and that at no very remote period-thirty or forty years ago.

At that epoch the French were the masters of Paris, as the English are the masters of London, the Spaniards of Madrid, and the Russians of St.Petersburg.Those times are no more.

Other countries still have their frontiers; there are now none to France.

Paris has become an immense Babel, a universal and international city.

Foreigners do not only come to visit Paris; they come there to live.