The Aristocratic Province of the Plantagenet Kings offers distractions in country hotels, soft wines and subtle fish from the Loire, bathed in beaten butter.
Hearing the cheering from the birthday party across the Atlantic, we decided to go. France holds celebration for beloved Paris, two thousand years old, Europe's oldest capital after Athens and Rome.
Nobody in his right digestion would deny that a firsthand study of Paris restaurants is a toothsome assignment, but limitations loom large and forbidding.