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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: WOMAN, AND HER POSITION IN PARIS. FRENCH art and French literature, the French stage and French philosophy, are all certainly exceedingly interesting and worthy of the closest study, but by far the most remarkable, the most interesting product of the national civilization of France, is after all, the parisienne. The landscape gardeners of the last century had the habit of pruning and training trees into shapes like statues, walls and architectural designs. But with all their efforts, they never succeeded in developing the tree into forms so entirely at variance with its natural laws of growth as the abnormal deviation from the natural type that woman has become in the atmosphere of Paris. Victor Hugo in his L'homme qui rit describes the comprachicos, who make a business of buying or stealing healthy little children, and pressing them into frames until they bave made of them monstrous caricatures of human beings, one might almost say, east in such forms. Paris is populated solely by comprachicos like this, to-day, who are not even satisfied with deforming the bodies of the little ones, but subject their minds as well to, the same hideous arts. The result of their labors is?the parisienne Nothing about her is natural, neither her body nor her mind, neither her look nor her language, neither her step nor her ideas, nothing about her is as nature designed and intended her. They have kneaded and moulded, planed, pulled and compressed her in every direction; she has been chiselled, polished, turned in the lathe and added to, until she has been brought to resemble in mind and appearance the artificial ideal evolved by Parisian culture. Comparatively speaking, it is as if the parisienne were put in a tight corset as soon as she is born, which is never laid aside afterward...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217738996 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217738990 |
| Weight | 0.41 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.28 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 118 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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