We'll Always Have Paris - Sex and Love in the City of Light (2005) by Australian writer and biographer John Baxter is a travel book about a city that is a victim of its own mythology, a city that for centuries has been the place where writers, artists, directors, actors, lovers come in search of themselves.

Baxter (1939) lived in the United States and England before choosing the French capital as his home. In the novel (the title may seem like a romantic lemonade at first glance, but it is far from cheap literature and refers to a quote from Casablanca) Baxter managed to create a story about the city in terms of of his profession, primarily as a film critic. He has authored biographical books about Luis Buñuel, Fellini, Woody Allen, Kubrick, Spielberg, George Lucas, Robert De Niro... Starting from the French proverb America does more. France is more. Baxter speaks chronologically of the many faces of Paris - the city of Debussy, François Rabelais, Balzac, Stendhal, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec, Salvador Dalí, Paul Eliard and Gala, Man Ray, Josephine Baker and cabaret Crazy Horse, the city of Montparnasse, Saint Germain, Versailles, the Proust’s Combray and Swann... And the luxury brothels of the belle époque, in the alley behind the Louvre where Edward VII was satisfying his fantasies. Baxter walks the reader through French cafes and restaurants through facts and anecdotes about the French tradition, food, makes a kind of his own replica of the famous film sets shot in France ...