title: Paris Forever: the story that history forgot!
author:  Stuart Freeman 
description: The author is a graduate of Syracuse University, with a degree in Political Science/History. He served in the USMC where he received his Army and Marine Corps jump wings. His combat experiences proved invaluable in illuminating specific situations in Paris Forever.
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  _This book is dedicated to  
  
  
  the memory of my cousin,  
  
  
  Jean Louis Brizard,  
  
  
  pediatrician at the Beaujon Hospital,  
  
  
  the British Hospital, and the American Hospital in Paris_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  For a larger version of the family tree, click
  [here](http://rhlink.com/paris001).
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Chapter One
  
  
  
  
  
  _•   1875  •_
  
  
  
  
  
  P _aris. City of love. City of dreams. City of splendor. City of saints and
  scholars. City of gaiety_.
  
  
  
  
  
  _Sink of iniquity_.
  
  
  
  
  
  _In two thousand years, Paris had seen it all_.
  
  
  
  
  
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  _It was Julius Caesar who had first seen the possibilities of the place where
  the modest Parisii tribe made their home. The Mediterranean lands of southern
  Gaul had already been Roman provinces for generat