The entire world holds Paris to be a romantic ideal, a city universally associated with romance. Have you ever wondered why? It was in France that the idea of courtly love–both illicit and spiritually elevating–emerged a thousand years ago. This would become one of the wellsprings of French literature, which retroactively influenced French culture over the centuries to come. French gained its reputation as the language of love, and the French capital as the city of lovers.
The legend of Paris is now sustained by what people millions of visitors believe and want to believe. If you believe you are in the most romantic city in the world, you are likely to fall under the magical rays that illuminate the hearts of lovers all around you. Paris is the stage on which the drama of countless love stories have unfolded (so many with tragic ends.) Its cafés and parks harbor the ecstasy of spring lovers as well as the pain of broken hearts.
The Lebanese poet, Khalil Gibran, studied sculpture with Rodin, the most passionate of molders, and wrote these words about love : “And when he (love) speaks to you believe in him, though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden. For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun, so shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.”
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Did you know that there is an “I love you” wall in Montmartre, featuring this handwritten declaration in over 300 languages ?
