Once Upon A Time In France: A Swelling Seine, Vacances Woes, and Sanofi's Sorrows

Dreaming of Ardèche.

I visited Paris once in January and have attempted to avoid the capital city ever since during these most gruesome of winter weeks that run through early February, a bleak period on the calendar that will test the devotion of even the staunchest Francophiles. The occasion was a startup pitching event organized by the French government along with the ann…