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‘Paris, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down’ by Rosencrans Baldwin

By John Freeman

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    May 20, 2012

For every Francophile there are a few francophobics; and for every hundred of these, there is one franco-failure. Someone who shoves off for Paris in search of the café life only to discover the coffee is, by and large, atrocious, the croissants are quite stale, and while the city is beautiful, it is impermeable to love. Rosecrans Baldwin was one of these unlucky souls.

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