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Philip Hensher revels in Graham Robb's ingenious, energetic Parisians: an Adventure History of Paris .
There is a small but interesting group of syndromes de voyageur, including the psychotic Jerusalem Syndrome and Stendhal Syndrome, in which a tourist becomes mildly unhinged on being exposed to great beauty on a citywide scale. Paris Syndrome affects around 20 tourists a year, mostly Japanese, for some reason. It appears to spring from the shock of the disparity between the popular image of Paris – of accordions, flowers and cobbled streets – and the exposure to, say, the Place de Clichy at night. They do not know that, within our lifetimes, those cobble stones have been prised up and thrown in anger; they require immediate psychiatric help.
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