Dear Fran, the first line of my intrigue romance is: No one writes songs about Paris in the winter.

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After unusually mild temperatures this winter in Paris, it has been freezing the last few weeks.

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He was due to play a concert at Olympia Hall in Paris on 7 April with blues guitarist Johnny Winter.

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You may not be in Paris, but New York has everything you need for a romantic outing, even in the dead of winter.

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Dr Is Poli-Savon, an anthropologist at the Paris-based Fairpooll Foundation, says that in many countries fooling is seen as a celebration of the end of winter.

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