“The old Paris is no more (the form of a city changes faster, alas! than a mortal's heart).”
Charles Baudelaire
Flowers of Evil and Other Works/Les Fleurs du Mal et Oeuvres Choisies : A Dual-Language Book (Dover Foreign Language Study Guides)
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