They always followed with adornment and mingled with men in the parks, and perhaps introductions occurred between them and some men in those places, whether free women or others, especially on Sunday, which is the Christians' holiday, and the night before Monday. In the balls and dance halls, which will be mentioned later, and some of them said poetry well: And the dancers, their locks fell * on waists like the middles of wasps. Her covering hides from us, revealing her * the necklace of pendants and the tightness of the wasps. And from what preceded, Paris is the paradise of women, the customs of men, and the hell of gossip. This is because women there are indulged, whether with women or with their beauty. As for men, they are slaves to women, between these and those. For a person deprives himself and sanctifies his beloved. As for the gossip, it bewilders Arab women day and night over the stones of Paris. Especially if the Arab hired woman is a beautiful woman, the suitor exerts his efforts to reach her destination quickly. So I always found myself tormented in this city. And since Paris is from the land of the French, know that the language of its people is the French language. We will mention a brief excerpt from that here. Know that the French language is from the modern European languages, and it is the language of the Gauls, meaning the ancient French. Then all of the Latin language, and something of the Greek language was added to it, and a little of the Sicilian language and others. Then when the French excelled in sciences, they adopted the words of science from the languages of its people. And most of the technical words are Greek. It was indeed their language, the most eloquent and broadest of languages, in proportion to the abundance of words that are not synonymous. They do not play with expressions and their manipulation, nor with the innate verbal expressions, for it is devoid of them, as is the mold of innate rhetorical embellishments. And perhaps it is considered in Arabic as a weakness, as it is with the French, for example, it is not.