The Independent - London, March 24th, 1995
plus je vois l'homme, plus j'aime mon chien. Any Paris visitor who has witnessed the occasionally brusque manner of its citizens might embrace Pascal's acerbic remark. Certainly one is struck by the Parisians' penchant to treat their dogs more kindly than their fellow citizens.
The canine population of France is almost 10 million - one dog for every five citizens - with Paris accounting for 200,000 dogs. . . Rich and poor, old and young, the Parisians are so deeply linked to their dogs that were their pets suddenly to disappear, Paris itself would be changed.
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