Guide To Finding Pretty Women In Paris
June 17, 2008
“Just as every region has its gastronomy, every quartier has its feminine speciality,” so writes Pierre-Louis Colin, a dapper 34-year-old and co-author of French Foreign Minister – Bernard Kouchner’s most recent book.
“You do not find in Menilmontant the sublime legs you see at the Madeleine. But, you do find perfectly shameless cleavages, radiant breasts often uncluttered by a bra,” he writes in his own recently published book, which is a guide to finding pretty women in Paris.
The most visited capital in the world, people come to Paris not only to admire the Mona Lisa and the Eiffel Tower, but also to see the city’s magnificent women. Since, there are no guidebooks for the human wonders of Paris, Colin decided it was up to him to produce his own. The end result, a 190-page “Guide des jolies femmes de Paris,” more of a literary essay than a fact-packed guidebook.
Area by area, Colin notes the best observation posts e.g. Paris bars, supermarkets, parks, museums, metro trains, including the best times of day for the connoisseur to contemplate various Parisienne archetypes.
“Trendy youth”, characterised by the “generalisation of the G-string and the near disappearance of the bra” is to be seen on rue Montorgueil, a pedestrian strip of cafés and upmarket food shops, which the author hails as the “epicentre of the city’s erotic radiations.”
Luxury boutiques and elegant café terraces are the natural habitat of the leisured bourgeois, who is described as “the mother of all fantasies since the origins of literature”.
Women in the “saucy maturity” category, those aged between 40 and 60 whose appearance “bears witness to the meanders of an agitated or ambitious sex life which refuses to lay down its weapons”, are best observed in lingerie stores.
He also gives many tips such as where to position oneself, in order to get an “unbeatable view” up women’s skirts as they climb a spiral staircase, singling out the Café Louis-Philippe in the fourth arrondissement, or district. A little risqué for evangelist America, however, Colin insists it’s all in the best possible taste.
Rejecting suggestions that an alternative title for his oeuvre might have been the “Voyeur’s Guide to the Pretty Women of Paris”, the author points out that he has not included any suggestions on how to pick up women, nor provided the addresses of any of Paris’ numerous dens of iniquity. He insists his book is a celebration of women’s freedom.
Dismissing Anglo-Saxon political correctness and boldly stating that the freedom to contemplate the beauty of women is a key part of French culture, Colin writes: “May this guide contribute to the success of this high mission.”































