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| Introduction | |
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| Love (How to Seduce and Be Seduced Like a Parisian) | |
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| “Liberation of Paris” On the very first thing he did when he heard the news about the liberation of Paris from the Nazis: read the Paris entry in the Encyclop�dia Britannica | |
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| The Britannica was never more moving | |
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| Edith Wharton: fromA Backward Glance Wharton remembers “the bells of Paris calling to each other,” and announcing the end of the First World War | |
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| “April in Paris” fromArt Buchwald’s Paris An interview with Vernon Duke, the composer of “April in Paris | |
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| ” Dorothy Parker, George Gershwin, and plenty of April showers make their appearance in the story of how the classic love song was born | |
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| “Passable” fromBetween Meals: An Appetite for Paris Liebling poignantly recalls the working girl who befriended him and with whom he explored Paris while he was a distracted student of medieval history | |
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| “Passionate and Penniless in Paris” Two very young, very love-struck Americans camp out in their VW van on the Quai de la Tournelle along an enchanted Seine | |
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| “Paris in Winter” fromParis! Paris! Shaw disavows Paris by counting all that’s wrong with the city in the wintertime, and still he can’t help being seduced all over again once the sun comes out | |
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| “My Paris” fromIt All Adds Up A rumination on the Paris of his youth and the Paris of today—from art and anti-Semitism to how Paris lost its power as the center of European civilization and why he’s still in love with the city | |
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| Food (How to Eat Like a Parisian) Ernest Hemingway: “Hunger Was Good Discipline” fromA Moveable Feast In Paris, hunger—both physical and artistic—is keenly felt | |
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| “Boulevard Des Italiens” fromThe Last Days of Haute Cuisine The chef makes his way to the country of his American father by way of County Cork, Dublin, a Parisian brasserie on the Boulevard des Italiens, his American passport, and the declaration, “I am an American.” M. F. K. Fisher: from “The Measure of My Powers” fromThe Gastronomical Me Newlyweds in Paris escape the expatriate crowd in the city and head for Dijon | |
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| “Paris’s Haute Chocolaterie” Parisians not only have haute cuisine and haute couture, they have haute chocolaterie | |
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| “A Day in the Life of a Parisian Caf�” Where everybody knows your name, in French | |
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| The Art of Living (How to Live Like a Parisian) David Sedaris: “The City of Light in the Dark” fromMe Talk Pretty One Day Sedaris moves to Paris, but spends most of his time in the dark, watching classic | |
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| American movies, Sylvia Beach: fromShakespeare and Company Dreams of opening a French bookshop in New York are crushed, and voil�, an American bookshop in Paris is born | |
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| The Early Diary of Ana�s Nin | |
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| The gravity of French Civilization, the “Legend of Paris,” weighs on her own literary development, but in the end, she is sure that it can be good for her “if one survives them.” | |
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| “The Glass of Fash | |