What they wrote … about Paris

“If you are lucky enough to have lived in #Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.”  
― Ernest Hemingway

“When good Americans die, they go to Paris.” 
― Oscar Wilde

“To study in Paris is to be born in Paris!” 
― Victor Hugo

“London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.” 
― G.K. Chesterton

“Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub.” 
― Jack Kerouac

“The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent person to live in an intelligent country. France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow older—intelligence and good manners.
–F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Paris is a heaven for all woman's obsessions: hot men, great chocolates, scrumptuous pastries, sexy lingerie, cool clothes but, as any shoe-o-phile knows, this city is a hotbed of fabulous shoes.” 
― Kirsten Lobe

“As an artist, a man has no home in Europe save in Paris.” 
― Friedrich Nietzsche 


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Celebrating Christie

MARKING the 125th anniversary of the birth of the queen of the English crime novel, this year’s International #AgathaChristie Festival (September 11-20) has a nine-day programme of events in and around #Torquay, South Devon.

There will be film screenings, talks exploring Christie’s life and times, a professionally led workshop programme for aspiring writers of all ages … plus food, drink, and dancing.

Torre Abbey will be the festival’s hub. The entrance ticket will enable access to the house, gardens, Book Tent, a programme of daily activities, and an exhibition: Agatha Christie … Unfinished Portrait.

Ticketed events will also be held in The Spanish Barn at Torre Abbey, The Grand Hotel, The Imperial Hotel, the Princess Theatre, the Palace Theatre, The Little Theatre, Torquay Museum, Cockington Court, Greenway (National Trust), Churston Church, and Oddicombe Beach.

Tickets for most of the festival events are available through a dedicated festival online bookings system.

*Agatha Christie died on January 12, 1976, aged 85. She wrote: 79 crime novels, 19 plays, 22 short story collections, six romantic novels, and two non-fiction works, including her autobiography.

*Christie’s daughter, Rosalind, gifted Greenway, her mother’s summer residence in South Devon, to the National Trust in 1999.
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