I was looking forward to going to Paris for the first time this summer. Was Paris on the top of my travel list? Well, to be honest… no. But I had seen enough movies set in Paris to paint this picture in my mind of a quaint, affluent city—oh and of course it’s in black and white. The one thing that I always found fascinating about Paris is how much people swoon over it at its mention. You always hear about the American in Paris clichés and the romantic Parisian narratives that have been crafted. But why? What makes Paris so…