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Parisienne
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Pa`ri`si`enne´
n.1.A female native or resident of Paris.
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Noun1.Parisienne - a female native or resident of Paris
capital of France, City of Light, French capital, Paris - the capital and largest city of France; and international center of culture and commerce
Parisian - a native or resident of Paris


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Mapping a chronology over eleven rooms, the show punctuated the history of the medium's ongoing obsession with the city and its life with work by some big names--from Jaques Henri Lartigue's glamorous Parisiennes and Alfred Stieglitz's street shots, to August Sander's Weimar typologies via Paul Strand and Robert Frank, to the urban grotesques that inhabit the portraits of Lisette Model and Diane Arbus.
From the 1960s to the 1990s, there was a sense that couture was in gentle decline, confined to grandes Parisiennes of a certain age.
Watteau himself, a provincial from Flanders with a Flemish accent, may have been intimidated by haughty Parisiennes.
 
 
 
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