Quotes About Seine

Analogous examples are innumerable. As I write these lines the papers are full of the story of two little girls found drowned in the Seine. These children, to begin with, were recognised in the most unmistakable manner by half a dozen witnesses. All the affirmations were in such entire concordance that no doubt remained in the mind of the juge d'instruction.

Paris est la grande salle de lecture d'une bibliothèque que traverse la Seine.

the royal revenue was doubled from 600 to 1200 livres ($240,000) a day. In his reign the façade of Notre Dame was completed, and the Louvre was built as a fortress to guard the Seine.62 When Philip died (1223) the France of today had been born.

No tools have yet been met with in any of the gravels occurring at the higher levels of the valley of the Seine; but no importance can be attached to this negative fact, as so little search has yet been made for them.

The Seine. I have painted it all my life, at all hours of the day, at all times of the year, from Paris to the sea…Argenteuil, Poissy, Vétheuil, Giverny, Rouen, Le Havre.

Laclos thought, how about a one-way ticket to Pennsylvania? You'd enjoy life among the Quakers. Alternatively, how about a nice dip in the Seine?

I bought a Dutch barge and turned it into a recording studio. My plan was to go to Paris and record rolling down the Seine.

Easygoing, nonmilitant Pop, as at home in Southern California as was Impressionism on the banks of the Seine.

Envoi Tombe d'un rêve de novembre J'ai mis ce pouème à l'eau de Seine Du mieux que j'ai pu, en lumière. (in Queneau en novembre)

Mary happily reunited with her mother, watching it all from a blue and gold viewing pavilion on the west bank of the Seine.

The main body of Vikings were given lands in the Seine basin in exchange for protecting Paris. They settled into northern France and within a century were speaking a dialect of French and became known as the Normans.

But of Paris it can be said that the right bank of the Seine belongs to the world, and the left bank to France.

ever since Eugène Poubelle had become prefect of the Seine and issued strict laws governing street cleaning and garbage collection (thus giving his name to the French trash can).

Pont Neuf, the oldest bridge in Paris.