Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It's where it all began and ended.
You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
I don't really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don't tell them.
Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower - translated from a French saying
The best Paris I know now is in my head.