So what`s so romantic about Paris ????????

Question

other than the obvious dirty w/e.Just curious.Is it like some French guy muttering sweet nothing`s in French!......WHAT IS the attraction ??

I`m tempted to give best answer to 'Sakura Pi',coz I`m sarcastic,and it made me sneer...and that dirty old river WAS what I was associating....
BUT I`m an idealistic romantic more of so................

Answer 1

It's just a matter of taste. I'm french and for me, the most romantic city in the world is Venice. I find Paris very beautiful and unique, but i've always wondered why we say it's romantic? The reason is I'm french so Paris doesn't represent the same things for me than for a foreigner : for me, it's my capital, the concentration of political, economic and cultural symbols of France. The life there is stressful for me and so expensive! Don't get me wrong, i love this city, but i can live romantism somewhere else without any problems.

Answer 2

A great deal of it has to do with associations. For Americans in particular those associations, for cinema, from literature and from social history engage us whenever we go to paris.

For me, Paris is Michael Rennie as Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte and Jean Simmons as Desiree Clary meeting on the Pont Alexander III. Its Bogart and Bergman as Rick and Ilsa recalling their ill fated affair that ended as the Germans marched into Paris. Its Fred Astair romancing Audrey Hepburn in Funny Face, Gene Kelly falling for Leslie Caron in an American in Paris and Louis Jourdan falling for her in Gigi.

Its the American (and other) artists, writers, musicians and entertainers from those who fled everything from Prohibition in the 1920's to the stutifying conformity of the Eisenhower years to find, in Paris a place to live, love and create as they saw fit.

Its Sherwood Anderson, Samuel Beckett, John Dos Passos, Lawrence Durrell, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin, Ezra Pound, and Gertrude Stein.

Its Lawrence Ferlinghetti studying for a doctorate in literature at the Sorbonne. Its Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, and William Burroughs huddled in a seedy little hotel writing the poetry that set new standards for the gnere.

Its Sylvia Beach opening Shakespeare and Company and serving as den mother to whole generations of young Americans.

Its Picasso and Utrillo defining new ways of thinking about art in Montmartre and Toulouse Lautrec, soaked in absinthe, turning madness into beauty at the Moulin rouge.

Its Jean Paul Sartre holding forth at the Cafe des Deux Magots.

To be in Paris is to drink in the presence of all of these images and to be able to pretend, just for a moment that you are part of it all. And if you are there with, or manage to meet, someone that you share an attraction with then you are not just a another couple but are those people and that history and those associations.

And whatever happens to that relationship you can say "We'll always have Paris."

Answer 3

Paris is not romantic at all.The place is so dirty i couldn't wait to leave.If you fell into the Seine river you would never get out alive its so polluted.The men spit in the street and people are not very friendly.I won't be in any hurry to return.

Answer 4

lol, i get ur drift,if ure referrin to the French language, it can be rather sexy but if ure referrin to the sights etc..i personally think Prague is much more romantic than Paris itself.Paris is just a lil "over rated" by people & the movies i think.I think anywhere can be romantic, as long as u wid someone u love.Even my bedroom can be romantic..lol Cheers!

Answer 5

the atmosphere... you should enjoy the Pont Neuf Seine River Cruise of night..

Answer 6

You never strolled hand in hand with your lover past the Seine, so I can't even begin to explain.

Answer 7

It is just a very beatiful city with good view, culture, rtestaurants etc.

Answer 8

Nothing it's just a legend!!

Answer 9

Me, for example !!!!!

Answer 10

If you don't know I can't help you.