MARK TWAIN got back from a similar trip quite a few years ago, and, well, then got to write innumerable books, speeches and stories about it....
"France has usually been governed by prostitutes." - Notebook #18, Feb.- Sept. 1879
"French are the connecting link between man & the monkey." - Notebook #18, Feb.- Sept. 1879
"In certain public indecencies the difference between a dog & a Frenchman is not perceptible." - Notebook #17, October 1878 - February 1879
"A Frenchman's home is where another man's wife is." - Notebook #18, Feb.- Sept. 1879
"An isolated & helpless young girl is perfectly safe from insult by a Frenchman, if he is dead." - Notebook #20, Jan. 1882 - Feb. 1883
"M. de Lamester's new French dictionary just issued in Paris defines virtue as: "A woman who has only one lover and don't steal." - quoted in A Bibliography of Mark Twain, Merle Johnson
"In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language." - Innocents Abroad
"The objects of which Paris folks are fond--literature, art, medicine and adultery." - The Corpse speech, 1879
"France has neither winter nor summer nor morals--apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country." - Mark Twain's Notebook
"There is nothing lower than the human race except the French." - quoted by Carl Dolmetsch, Our Famous Guest
"It appears that at last census that every man in France over 16 years of age & under 116, has at least 1 wife to whom he has never been married. French novels, talk, drama & newspaper bring daily & overwhelming proofs that the most of the married ladies have paramours. This makes a good deal of what we call crime, and the French call sociability." - Notebook #18, Feb.- Sept. 1879
"Trivial Americans go to Paris when they die." - Notebook #18, Feb.- Sept. 1879
"It is the language for lying compliment, for illicit love & for the conveying of exquisitely nice shades of meaning in bright graceful & trivial conversations--the conveying, especially of double-meanings, a decent & indecent one so blended as--nudity thinly veiled, but gauzily & lovelily." - Notebook #18, Feb.- Sept. 1879
"A dead Frenchman has many good qualities, many things to recommend him; many attractions--even innocencies. Why cannot we have more of these?" - Notebook #20, Jan. 1882 - Feb. 1883
This ranks as the best post I have read on the forum. Is there a website that has more of this?