A self-described Francophile from when he was little, Rosecrans Baldwin always dreamed of living in Paris―drinking le café, eating les croissants, walking in les jardins―so when an opportunity presented itself to work for an advertising agency in Paris, he couldn't turn it down. Despite the fact that he had no experience in advertising. And despite the fact that he barely spoke French. After an unimaginable amount of red tape and bureaucracy, Rosecrans and his wife packed up their Brooklyn apartment and left the Big Apple for the City of Light. But when they arrived, things were not eactly what Rosecrans remembered from a family vacation when he was nine years old.

Paris, I Love You but You're Bringing Me Down is a nimble comic account of observing the French capital from the inside out. It is an exploration of the Paris of Sarkozy, text-message romances, smoking bans, and a McDonald's beneath the Louvre―the story of an American who arrives loving Paris all out of proportion, but finds life there to be completely unlike what he expected. Over eighteen months, Rosecrans must rely on his dogged American optimism to get him through some very unromantic situations―at work (writing booklets on how to breast-feed, raise, and nurture children), at home (trying to finish writing his first novel in an apartment surrounded on all sides by construction workers), and at every confusing French dinner party in between. An offbeat update to the expat canon, Paris, I Love You is a book about a young man finding his preconceptions replaced by the oddities of a vigorous, nervy city―which is just what he needs to fall in love with Paris for the second time.

罗塞克斯-鲍德温从小就自诩为法语爱好者，他一直梦想着在巴黎生活--喝咖啡，吃羊角面包，在花园里散步--因此，当一个为巴黎的一家广告公司工作的机会出现时，他无法拒绝它。尽管他没有广告方面的经验。而且，尽管他几乎不会说法语。在经历了难以想象的繁文缛节和官僚主义之后，罗塞克斯和他的妻子收拾了他们在布鲁克林的公寓，离开大苹果前往光明之城。但是，当他们到达时，事情与罗塞克斯记忆中9岁时的家庭假期不完全一样。

巴黎，我爱你，但你让我失望了》是一部从内到外观察法国首都的灵活的漫画记录。它是对萨科齐的巴黎、短信恋情、禁烟令和卢浮宫下面的麦当劳的探索--一个美国人来到巴黎时爱得不成样子，却发现那里的生活与他的预期完全不同。在18个月的时间里，罗塞克斯必须依靠他那顽强的美国式的乐观精神来度过一些非常不浪漫的情况--在工作中（写关于如何母乳喂养、抚养和培育孩子的小册子），在家里（试图在四面都是建筑工人的公寓里完成他的第一部小说的写作），以及中间每一个混乱的法国晚餐聚会。巴黎，我爱你》是一部关于一个年轻人发现自己的成见被这个充满活力、神经质的城市的怪癖所取代的书，这正是他第二次爱上巴黎所需要的，这也是对外籍人士典范的一次更新。