“The German passion for bureaucracy -- for written and signal forms . . . to move about, to work, to exist -- is like a steel pin pinning each French individual to a sheet of paper, the way an entomologist pins each specimen insect . . .”
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Janet Flanner
Janet Flanner was an American writer renowned for her profound insights into the life of Paris. Her work depicted the French society of the mid-20th century from a unique perspective, particularly famous for her column 'Letter from Paris' in The New Yorker. more