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Lived In Paris A Total: To discuss French restaurants in general in a few brisk notes is like offering a thumbnail history of gastronomy. Even to know the subject with satisfying thoroughness is impossible in one life span, though you ruin your digestion in pursuit of knowledge. I have lived in Paris a total of about five years and have had a good many skirmishes with this mighty subject, so perhaps I can offer at least a guide to guidance. If you have invested in the pontifical Michelin annual and if you add one or two gastronomy books or booklets you are ready to become at least a student of fine food.
I would stress this last point, for when, in these days, any traveler, including myself, bemoans the high cost of London or Paris or Rome, he, or I, is comparing these costs not with what opposite-number costs would be in New York or Chicago or California or Florida but with what such costs were in the halcyon pre-war days of Europe. In other words, Europe is still and always a good bit less expensive, all along the line, than America. If travelers would recognize and admit this to themselves it would reduce this grousing quotient 50 per cent. I know thjs because I find it harder than most travelers to reconcile myself, for instance, to the high cost of Paris. For nearly four years, between wars, I lived intermittently in Paris with my family.
The total room count for each day is indicated in the far right column. At the bottom of each page are entered the total rooms booked for the month and the total in each room type. |
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