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MOJ PARIZ, MIKI MANOJLOVIĆ MY PARIS, BY MIKI MANOJLOVIĆ PARIZU SE DIVIM, BEOGRAD VOLIM I ADMIRE PARIS, AND LOVE BELGRADE OD NAŠEG SPECIJALNOG DOPISNIKA FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

Volim Pariz u svemu, uvek. To je ozbiljan grad. Nisam tamo odrastao, ali jesam provodio mnogo vremena. U tom gradu sam prvi put slušao „Stonse“ uživo, mislim da je bila 1969. B io sam dete kad sam prvi put došao u Pariz. Impresionirala me je arhitektura, atmosfera koju do tada nisam video. A nisam ni posle. U mom slučaju doživ- ljaj ovog grada vezan je za mog deku kojeg nikad nisam video, za moju ba- ku Francuskinju Mari, koju sam mno- go voleo, s njom sam razgovarao is- ključivo na francuskom... I uopšte za moje rođake Francuze… Istina, oni ni- su iz Pariza, već iz Nansija, ali svi su na neki način bili povezani s Parizom. Deda se posle Prvog svetskog rata obreo u Francuskoj, doktorirao je na

I love Paris in everything, always. That’s a serious city. I didn’t grow up there, but I have spent a lot of time there. It was in this city that I first heard the Stones live… I think it was 1969.

Tekst / Words: Predrag Miki Manojlović Fotografije / Photography: Janko Petković/Hello, Profimedia.rs

I was a kid when I first came to Paris. I was impressed by the architecture, the atmos- phere that I had not previously seen. And I didn’t see later. In my case, the expe- rience of this city is linked to my grandfa- ther, who I never saw, my grandmother, a Frenchwoman called Marie, who I really loved and with whom I spoke exclusively in French ... And generally my French rela- tives... It is true that they are not from Par- is, but rather from Nantes, but they are all connected to it in some way. My grandfa- ther ended up in France after World War I. He earned his doctorate at the Sorbonne and met my grandmother in that city, while my

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