"Parisienne" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the fashion papers, and formed her style in reading the "Vie Parisienne," whose most enigmatic articles had no allusions sufficiently obscure to ...
— Other People's Money • Emile Gaboriau
... that the smart American girl sitting opposite in the compartment stared at him with frank interest, or an elegantly gowned Parisienne demi-mondaine (travelling incognito as the Comtesse de Boistelle) eyed him ...
— High Noon - A New Sequel to 'Three Weeks' by Elinor Glyn • Anonymous
... you please him, that you are beautiful, that you have a voice and hand, a turn of the arm—that you have the manner Parisienne—Jeanne, is it ...
— The Purchase Price • Emerson Hough
... distinguished Parisienne, Mme. de Valsayre, has been petitioning the French legislature in favor of the emancipation of women from petticoats. Her case is that petticoats are very dangerous, leading to innumerable fatal accidents, and that trousers are just as decent, more healthy and far less ...
— Buchanan's Journal of Man, October 1887 - Volume 1, Number 9 • Various
... Chaffour was a Parisienne. She was born about 1839, somewhere in the upper end of the Faubourg Montmarte. Her father was unknown. Her infancy was a long alternation of beatings and caresses, equally furious. She had lived as best she could, on sweetmeats and damaged fruit; so that now ...
— The Widow Lerouge - The Lerouge Case • Emile Gaboriau
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