Photo Exhibit at Alliance Francaise

Your yummy mummy read you Madeleine for a bedtime story. You prize her bottle of Soir de Paris in its midnight-blue Eiffel Tower box; the sepia frame of her, very Sharmila-esque, on honeymoon with your dapper Dad. You dream of little girls in tutus rushing across the Rue, of studying at the Sorbonne and the Louvre.

The romance that’s Paris hit photographer Amit Mehra hard on his 15-week sojourn last November. On an Artists-in-Residence scholarship to explore lifestyle a la Francaise. He couldn’t tear away from his studio for two whole months, what with the Times, Der Spiegel, Conde Nast and Elle knocking down his doors — ooh la la! But how could he not find time to capture on film?

And he’s sharing. That’s 36 blanche et noir frames — Parisian architecture, of course, and its avant-garde citizens. Even a little ‘Madeline’ down the lane — buttoned coat, scarf at throat, shiny Mary Janes on white-stocking-ed feet.

Don your white Chloe frock, add a mist of Anais-Anais — and make believe for an afternoon. Until you find yourself penning a billet-doux to your travel agent.

Paris — A Love Affair, 24-30 September,11am to 8pm at Galerie Romain Rolland, Alliance Francaise de Delhi, 72 Lodhi Estate, Delhi; ph: 43500200; email: front_desk@afgdelhi.org.