The Great Paris Heat Wave
the scorchingly unromantic reality of Paris in the summertime

On Alabama’s Gulf Coast, where I grew up, the summer heat makes you feel lazy and languorous and all googly-eyed for the one that brung you, sleepy and content and soft around the edges. The Gulf Coast in the summer smells like azaleas and coconut suntan lotion, beachy and sweet, and you can always find an ice cold…