From La Baïonnette, 1917.

From Le Fifre, 1889.

Q: "Paris is beautiful, is it not?"  —Kings in Exile by Alphonse Daudet, 1889.

A: Not.  (Sorry, Paris.  You have great P.R., though!  It's just that there's a name for how visitors get violently ill when they visit you, "Paris Syndrome," triggered by the extreme shock over how awful you are.)

Here's a precursor to "Paris Syndrome," the psychological trauma triggered by that city.  The syndrome was first named in 1986, but of course it's nothing new, and this depiction of it in Lustige Blätter goes all the way back to 1900.

From Le Rire, 1898.

A gargoyle is thinking of you.  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1910.

From an ad for a lecture by Abbe Dimnet, 1921.

Here's a precursor to Paris Syndrome (first diagnosed in 1986), in which the filth and rudeness of that city puts romanticist tourists into a state of extreme shock (including anxiety, dizziness, tachycardia, vomiting, and hallucinations).  "So this is Paris!"  From Medical Pickwick, 1922.

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"An Eiffel Tower of handkerchiefs."  From Popular Mechanics, 1911.

"The devil holds the kings of Spain and France together," 1779.

Here's a mischievous cheese that ogles women, from Bouffonneries de l'Exposition, 1868.