Paris at Night
 

Nice article in travel section of Sunday NY Times on Paris at Night and a really nice slide-show also titled" "Paris Under the Lights".
Check it out, Paris lovers.

Is this why they call Paris The City of Light?

Cigalechanta, what lovely pictures to see with my morning coffee!

I love Paris. I loved the pictures.
But I thought the author of the article was a pompous, name-dropper and man-o-man, long winded

PalenqueBob,

No, "City of light" has nothing to do with floodlit monuments at night. It's a rather bad translation of the expression of "ville-lumière", forged in the 19th century (when the streets of Paris were rather dimlit lit with gas lighting...), and which should rather be "City of enlightment", in reference to the city's (self-proclaimed) supremacy in arts, sciences, and thinking...

I had trouble explaining that, many years ago, to a Las Vegas cab driver who was commenting " they talk about the City of Lights...but look here! there are more lights than in Paris!"