Paris

Paris
Camille Pissarro's Boulevard Montmartre au printemps (1897)
"And really, the reason we think of death in celestial terms is that the visible firmament, especially at night (above our blacked-out Paris with the gaunt arches of its Boulevard Exelmans and the ceaseless Alpine gurgle of desolate latrines), is the most adequate and ever-present symbol of that vast silent explosion."
Vladimir Nabokov That in Aleppo Once... (1943)

Other versions of Paris:

Ninon de Lenclos
Mata Hari
Anaïs Nin