He gaped at Madame Lalaurie and sniffed the Paris perfume which emanated from her.

Nevertheless, Prokofieff was much influenced by Paris during the Twenties: the Paris which was the artistic center of the Western World -- the social Paris to which Russian aristocracy migrated -- the chic Paris which attracted the tourist dollars of rich America -- the avant-garde Paris of Diaghileff, Stravinsky, Koussevitzky, Cocteau, Picasso -- the laissez-faire Paris of Dadaism and ultramodern art -- the Paris sympathique which took young composers to her bosom with such quick and easy enthusiasms.

Some of the library's early manuscripts, such as the famous Echternach Gospels, are now in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris.

Following Eugene Rougon's rise to political power in Paris in La Fortune, his younger brother Aristide, featured in the first novel as a talentless journalist, a comic character unable to commit himself unequivocally to the imperial cause and thus left out in the cold when the rewards were being handed out, decides to follow Eugene to Paris to help himself to the wealth and power he now believes to be his birthright.

Noticing how similar the foundry is to the place where the gold is made into ingots, Holland decides that the ideal way of smuggling the gold out of the country would be as Eiffel Tower paperweights sold in Paris, and puts this hypothetically to his new friend: " By Jove, Holland, it's a good job we're both honest men.

Instead, Clamence decides to flee Paris for London, and takes an indirect route there, moving through North Africa ; however, he meets a friend while in Africa and decides to stay and find work, eventually settling in Tunis.

When Irma decides to leave Paris with the fictitious Lord X, Nestor decides to end the charade.

On the eve of the 1832 Paris Uprising, Valjean prepares to go into exile ; Cosette and Marius part in despair ; Éponine mourns the loss of Marius ; Enjolras encourages all of Paris to join the revolution ; Marius decides to join the other students as they prepare for the upcoming conflict ; Javert briefs the soldiers under his command while he reveals his plans to spy on the students ; and the Thénardiers look forward to robbing the corpses of those who will be killed during the coming battle.

While walking the streets of Paris, Éponine laments how her love for Marius will never be reciprocated and decides that despite what he had said to her, she'll rejoin Marius at the barricade (" On My Own ").

Brunellus, who was educated in Paris, decides to found an order of fools, which shall combine the good points of all the existing monastic orders.

She decides to join Coupeau in the drinking and soon slides into heavy alcoholism too, prompting Nana — already suffering from the chaotic life at home and getting into trouble on a daily basis — to run away to Paris for good.

He leaves for Paris after winning a contest and decides to stay there, selling old newspapers and empty bottles.

I can understand that a player gets tired and decides to rest before Paris.

* The Lords of Vaumartin ( 1988 ) -- Everard de Vaumartin, a young, orphaned French aristocrat driven from his home, decides to immerse himself in books rather than continuing his knightly training, and experiences the turmoil of Paris of the mid-14th century, including chivalry vs. political realism, the Black Death, and the First Commune.

After two years, he returns home to Paris and decides to settle down and gets engaged to Muriel.

When the French baritone attempts to take Philippa to Paris and gets carried away and kisses her during a rehearsal of a duet from Don Giovanni, Philippa decides to discontinue the lessons and turns down his offer of stardom and wealth.

Instead of using the money to return to Paris and her lost lifestyle, she decides to spend it preparing a delicious dinner for the sisters and their small congregation on the occasion of the founding pastor's hundredth birthday.

While they are there, Albrecht decides to bring Jay to Paris to meet with Emily, but the boy has been told by his grandmother that Emily was responsible for his father's death, and does not want to see her.

However, while in Paris he sees an ad in the paper that she is going to New York with her father and decides to follow her.

Once free, the League decides that their criminal career would be easier in Europe and traveled to Paris to set up base.

Upon deducing that Bresnavitch had used Polyakov to fence stolen art works in Paris, Ward decides to go there in search of any possible leads.

The next day Linus has second thoughts and decides to call off his brother's wedding with Elizabeth and send David off on the ship to Paris with Sabrina.

Having had to put up with Villon's impudence and wanting less aggravation in his life, Louis decides to permanently exile him from Paris.

He told once of how he switched his style of playing to jazz after listening to two old Armstrong records he bought in the Flea Market in Paris.

On the demotion of Pluto to the status of dwarf planet, Philip Zarka of the Paris Observatory in Meudon, France wondered how astrologers should respond:

Map showing Yugoslavia in 1919 in the aftermath of World War I before the treaties of Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine | Neuilly, Treaty of Trianon | Trianon and Treaty of Rapallo | Rapallo ( note that this map does not reflect any internationally established borders or armistice lines-it only reflect opinion of the researchers from London Geographical Institute about issue how final borders will look after Paris Peace Conference )

Sixteen nations met in Paris to determine what form the American aid would take, and how it would be divided.

In the Voyager episode, " Non Sequitur ," Tom Paris ' alternate self ( in the parallel dimension ) relates to Harry Kim a story about how, during a stop at Deep Space Nine, he got in a bar fight with a Ferengi and was thrown in the brig by " a very unpleasant shapeshifter ", obviously referring to Odo.

A similar story, which first appeared in an 1824 publication called The Tell Tale, reported how a barber and wig-maker of the Rue de la Harpe in Paris cut his customers ' throats, relieved them of their valuables and then had their bodies made into meat pies, utilising the services of a pastry cook, whose establishment was on the same street.

There were also several references to the Bangles throughout the rest of the series ; Lorelei expresses how much she likes the band on multiple occasions while Paris states that she " really likes " the band, and tells Rory that the concert was the best night of her life.

Considering how Zola's Nana describes an Offenbach-style operetta performance in Paris, it is not surprising that the mostly male, upper-class audience crowded the various theaters every evening.

Mendes came across American Beauty in a pile of eight scripts at Swofford's house, and knew immediately that it was the one he wanted to make ; early in his career, he had been inspired by how the film Paris, Texas ( 1984 ) presented contemporary America as a mythic landscape and he saw the same theme in American Beauty, as well as parallels with his own childhood.

" In 1758, the Jesuit missionary Pierre Nicolas le Chéron d ' Incarville, living in Beijing, wrote about the methods and composition on how to make many types of Chinese fireworks to the Paris Academy of Sciences, which revealed and published the account five years later.

This unique relationship for Neustria stressed how it had shrunk in size to definitely exclude the Île de France and Paris by this time, as it was distanced from the central authority of Charles the Bald and closer to that of Erispoe.

Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo tells of how Herbie entered the Trans France Race ( from Paris to Monte Carlo ) and falls in love with a blue Lancia.

In a reminiscent sketch, Zelda Fitzgerald recalled how she and her husband sat in a Paris cafe watching a somewhat drunk Duncan.

She volunteered as a nurse in the French Red Cross and saw how badly the financial situation had become for many of the artists of Paris who were already struggling.

Louis XVI's indecision on how to deal with revolutionary demands was one of the causes of the forcible transfer of the royal family from the Palace of Versailles to the Tuileries in Paris on October 6, 1789 after Versailles had been attacked by an angry mob.

It was probably in Paris that Neckam heard how a ship, among its other stores, must have a needle placed above a magnet ( the De utensilibus assumes a needle mounted on a pivot ), which would revolve until its point looked north, and guide sailors in murky weather or on starless nights.

He reached Paris in December, began to study French, and visited the Louvre " with a throb ", describing how his ignorance of art made him feel " cabined cribbed, confined " until repeat visits allowed works by Raphael and Leonardo to change his understanding: " They touched my mind, untutored as it is, like a rich strain of music.

In his reports to his superiors in Paris, the prison governor, Bénigne Dauvergne de Saint-Mars, tells of how Lauzun displayed evidence of crazy behaviour at this time: his cell was a constant mess and he grew his beard to the point that it gave him a wild appearance.

" It's amazing how the city reminds me of Paris ", wrote one of the Frenchmen present at Batory's siege.

Old engraved maps of Paris show how, when the bridge was built, it just grazed the downstream tip of the Île de la Cité ; since then, the natural sandbar building of a mid-river island, aided by stone-faced embankments called quais, has extended the island.

In 1850, when Piedmont decided to adopt the use of stamps to prepay for postal service, their first thought was to inquire in Paris about how stamps were designed and manufactured.

He also published a work, which attracted considerable attention, on the question as to how far freedom of thinking might go in religious matters, De ingeniorum moderatione in religionis negotio ( Paris, 1714 ).