Book II, Part II - Passing Through Tangiers, France and London: Chapters 59 - 60 Summary

Duluoz spends afternoons in Paris' Café Bonaparte, drinking and enjoying the sun. Beautiful women pass by but all seem to be in hurry to be somewhere else. Raphael appears one afternoon, exuberant and eager to explore the city and show Duluoz what has been discovered so far. The two friends buy a bottle of cognac and meet with girls from England and Holland. The girls eventually shun the poets, annoyed by the fact that the poets don't want an entire season of love filled with flowers and passionate love notes. Raphael takes Duluoz to meet Nanette, the Parisian with whom he has fallen in love in his usual way. Duluoz sees Nanette as "an absolute trembling beauty" and takes...