For more than a century, pilgrims from all over the world seeking
romance and passion have made their way to the City of Light. The
seductive lure of Paris has long been irresistible to lovers, artists,
epicureans, and connoisseurs of the good life. Globe-trotting film
critic and writer John Baxter heard her siren song and was bewitched.
Now he offers readers a witty, audacious, scandalous behind-the-scenes
excursion into the colorful all-night show that is Paris -- interweaving
his own experience of falling in love, with a delightfully salacious
tour of the sultry Parisian corners most guidebooks ignore: from the
literary cafés of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and de Beauvoir to the brothels
where Dietrich and Duke Ellington held court, where Salvador Dali sated
his fantasies, and Edward VII kept a sumptuous champagne bath for his
favorite girls.