"It's lighter and brighter, somehow, and the streets are wider and have more trees planted in them.

It's a terrible scurry, and I should be run over if I tried to cross the street.

The shops aren't any better than ours really, though they make more fuss about them.

The little children and the small pet dogs are adorable.

The cinema was horribly disappointing, because they were all American films, not French ones; but that light that falls from the domed roof down on to Napoleon's tomb was worth coming across the Channel to see.