Stephen Longstreet first went to Paris at the age of five, and on each of his subsequent visits he developed an increasing fascination with the city, and an abiding curiosity about the Americans who were drawn by its magic. Over the years, he collected letters, newspapers, journals and unpublished papers that describe the lives of the Americans who visited the French capital and tell what particular charm each of them found there. Now he has brought them all together in this book-the famous and the infamous, the well-known and the obscure, the men and women who have played their dramas, comedies and tragedies on the stage of the City of Light.