A Perfect Day in Paris
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When Jean, a disillusioned Parisian bookseller, keeps in his drawer a manuscript that every publisher has turned down, meets Esther Teillard, France's most magnetic young author, the ordinary turns extraordinary. What begins as a spontaneous escape from routine becomes a whirlwind day across Paris: cafés, literary salons, old bookstores, and encounters with eccentric writers. As fiction and reality blur, can two writers rewrite their lives? A love story born from books, shaped by words, and provin by the love of literature.
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