From Flaubert's "Sentimental Education"

Will Frederick get the girl or not? Which girl? Anyway, I'm progressing through Sentimental Education and found this ode to La Ville-Lumière enticing:

But there was only one place in the world where this could be turned to account--Paris; for to his mind, art, science, and love (those three faces of God, as Pellerin would have said) were associated exclusively with the capital.

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