Lettres sous la pluie

“Lettres sous la pluie” (“Letters Under the Rain”) is a declaration of love to Paris and a homage to the great French chanson — that elegant, melancholic sound once spinning on the records of Édith Piaf, Jacques Brel, Charles Aznavour, Mireille Mathieu, and making my heart tremble.

This song is about moments snatched from the city’s eternity: the glow of streetlights on rain-soaked cobblestones, a solitary accordion drifting from an open bistro door, a gaze filled with hopes that were never meant to come true…

Here, Paris is not just a backdrop, but a silent accomplice — sometimes swirling with you in the whirl of the night, sometimes weeping with you in rhythm with raindrops on the rooftops.

May “Lettres sous la pluie” carry you onto the pavements of Saint-Germain. May it remind you of your once-passionate love — the one forever left behind in some city, in some song, in your memory.