Now, Dear Pariscollects the entirety of the Paris Letters project: 140 illustrated messages discussing everything from macarons to Montmartre.įor readers familiar with the city, Dear Paris is a rendezvous with their own memories, like the first time they walked along the Champs-Élysees or the best pain au chocolat they've ever tasted. What started as a whim in a Latin Quarter cafe blossomed into Janice MacLeod's years-long endeavour to document and celebrate life in Paris, sending monthly snippets of her paintings and writings to the mailboxes of ardent followers around the world. What began as a way to fund travel became ten years of a letter subscription service delivering thousands of painted letters to subscribers who delight in fun mail!Įat, Pray, Love meets Claude Monet in this epistolary ode to Paris. Wistful, charming, surprising, and unfailingly optimistic, Dear Paris is a vicarious visit to one of the most iconic and beloved places in the world.Be transported to the banks of the Seine, a corner boulangerie, or beneath the Eiffel Tower with these beautifully illustrated vignettes of life in the City of Light. But it’s about more than just a Paris frozen in nostalgia the book paints the city as it is today, through elections, protests, and the World Cup-and through the people who call it home. Now, Dear Paris collects the entirety of the Paris Letters project: 140 illustrated messages discussing everything from macarons to Montmartre.įor readers familiar with the city, Dear Paris is a rendezvous with their own memories, like the first time they walked along the Champs-Élysées or the best pain au chocolat they’ve ever tasted.

What started as a whim in a Latin Quarter café blossomed into Janice MacLeod’s yearslong endeavor to document and celebrate life in Paris, sending monthly snippets of her paintings and writings to the mailboxes of ardent followers around the world. Be transported to the banks of the Seine, a corner boulangerie, or beneath the Eiffel Tower with these beautifully illustrated vignettes of life in the City of Light.

Dear paris the paris letters collection