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……………….We stayed in a charming boutique hotel on the right bank, not far from the Arc de Triumph. It was just off the Champs-Elysees, and Chanel was further down the street. Our room had ceiling to floor French doors, and the view of the roof tops was wonderful……….as all the views of Paris are. We tried to see everything in that short week we were there….One day we would go to places I wanted to see and the next we went to visit Jac’s old haunts that she used to go to when she modeled there……We literally walked our feet off……When we went to Versaille she told me a sweet story. Remember she was only 17 or 18 at the time……Versaille was a cold dank place, and the models that were there doing the show had to suffer the cold, the lack of food, and the lack of enough bathrooms……When they weren’t rehearsing Jac would sneak away and have a cigarette….She was alone in one of these magnificent, though run down rooms having her cigarette when two men walked in. They too were going to have a cigarette, but didn’t have a match or lighter so they asked Jac for one…..She shyly lit their cigarette and they went to another area of the room to talk…..Later on during the French segment rehearsal…this handsome ballet dancer came onto the stage. Jac recognized him immediately as the man who wanted a match….She asked one of the models if they knew him, and they said are you kidding…that Rudolph Nureyev….Jac never forgot that chance meeting with the famous ballet dance……….Paris is truly  the most beautiful city in the world……..We had the best time, and said we would return to the City of Lights.