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London. The name alone conjures images of chestnut-lined boulevards, sidewalk cafés, breathtaking façades around every corner--in a nutshell, an ideal romanticism that's captured the American imagination for so long as there were Americans. In 1995, Adam Gopnik, his wife, and their infant son left the familiar comforts and hassles of Ny City for the urbane glamour of the City of Light. Gopnik is just a longtime New Yorker writer, and the magazine has sent its writers to Paris for decades--but his was most importantly an individual pilgrimage to the area that had for such a long time been the undisputed capital of everything cultural and beautiful.