Paris is a very graceful and beautiful city, almost too formal and sweet tot the taste after the raw disorder of New York. Everything seems to have been planned with the purpose of forming a most harmonious whole, which certainly has been done... Every street here is alive with all sorts of conditions of people, priests, nuns, students, and always the little soldiers with wide red pants.

Edward Hopper, in a letter to his mother, Paris, October 30, 1906; as quoted in "Edward Hopper", Gail Levin, Bonfini Press, Switzerland 1984, p. 13 - 1905 – 1910 (Travel)