When you go to Paris, you start wondering how it is that you’ve lived anywhere else. It also becomes very clear why so many artists and writers have lived there, and you begin thinking that if Monet hadn’t been to Paris, he might never have become a painter. He might have wound up an investment banker or something. Well, maybe not. But you can ponder all these things and more while sipping a cappuccino in a café in Paris. I lived a month in Paris one July, and want to tell you to spend as  more...