Quotes by Jacques Yonnet, Paris Noir: The Secret History of a City

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He insisted on clearing the table, and again devoted himself to his game of patience: piecing together the map of Paris, — Jacques Yonnet, Paris Noir: The Secret History of a City
The ‘Oberge des Mailletz’ is by far the oldest tavern of which any record can found in the City archives. In 1292, Adam — Jacques Yonnet, Paris Noir: The Secret History of a City
An historian is a kind detective in search of the fact — remote or otherwise - that brings to a set of events apparently — Jacques Yonnet, Paris Noir: The Secret History of a City
Men are so isolated, prisoners of their own wretched selves, that they can be unbelievably sociable. — Jacques Yonnet, Paris Noir: The Secret History of a City
No one will shake my conviction that those leaders of men, who are in the nature of carbuncles, of semi-conscious absces — Jacques Yonnet, Paris Noir: The Secret History of a City
Silence, like madness, is only comparative. — Jacques Yonnet, Paris Noir: The Secret History of a City
I’d very much like to ‘conclude' something from this experiment. Or that it should raise a question in my mind, and a co — Jacques Yonnet, Paris Noir: The Secret History of a City
An event is never just what it is in itself and nothing more. It’s what goes on around it, at the same time, that makes — Jacques Yonnet, Paris Noir: The Secret History of a City
Better beware of the newly deadOf the white-handed ghostAnd the brightness of these lamps . . .wrote Luc Berimont in 194 — Jacques Yonnet, Paris Noir: The Secret History of a City
I should like one day, as some anonymous pedestrian revisiting the scenes of these memories, to follow on the heels of a — Jacques Yonnet, Paris Noir: The Secret History of a City
Every day the words that Keep-on-Dancin’ and the Gypsy imparted to me - theories, observations, advice and warnings - ar — Jacques Yonnet, Paris Noir: The Secret History of a City
And there, until 1884, it was possible to gaze on the remains of a generally neglected monument, so-called Dagobert’s To — Jacques Yonnet, Paris Noir: The Secret History of a City
Fortunately the City is vigilant. It too has its secret weapons. Since the summer it has released safety valves that for — Jacques Yonnet, Paris Noir: The Secret History of a City
Old Hubert must have had a premonition of his squalid demise. In October he said to me, ‘Forty-two years I’ve had this p — Jacques Yonnet, Paris Noir: The Secret History of a City
Here, in a few words, you’ve said all you need to say. People stand by each other, but they don’t talk. It’s remarkable. — Jacques Yonnet, Paris Noir: The Secret History of a City
In response to a tactless question he once said to me, ‘What do you expect? This lousy neighbourhood gave me the come-on — Jacques Yonnet, Paris Noir: The Secret History of a City
Sunset’s the best time to take a stroll down Mouffetard, the ancient Via Mons Cetardus. The buildings along it are only — Jacques Yonnet, Paris Noir: The Secret History of a City
It’s splendid how much at home we feel at Pignol’s. A tacit complicity at every moment prevails among the regulars here. — Jacques Yonnet, Paris Noir: The Secret History of a City