title: Paris: Through a Fashion Eye
author:  Megan Hess 
description: MEGAN HESS is an international fashion illustrator who collaborates with some of the most prestigious brands around the world, such as Chanel, Dior, Cartier, Montblanc and Tiffany &amp; Co. She is the official illustrator for Bloomingdales and has previously published 4 books and a range of stationary.
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  The Girl with the Golden Eyes
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  # The Girl with the Golden Eyes
  
  
  ### Translated by Ellen Marriage
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  DEDICATION
  
  
  
  
  
  To Eugene Delacroix, Painter.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  One of those sights in which most horror is to be encountered is,
  
  
  surely, the general aspect of the Parisian populace--a people fearful
  
  
  to behold, gaunt, yellow, tawny. Is not Paris a vast field in
  
  
  perpetual turmoil from a storm of interests beneath which are whirled
  
  
  along a crop of human beings, who are, more often than not, reaped by
  
  
  death, only to be born again as pinched as ever, men whose twisted and
  
  
  contorted faces give out at every pore the instinct, the desire, the
  
  
  poisons with which their brains are pregnant; not faces so much as
  
  
  masks; masks of weakness, masks of strength, masks of misery, masks of
  
  
  joy, masks of hypocrisy; all alike worn and stamped with the indelible
  
  
  signs 