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April 1992 |
Volume 18, Issue 6
July/Aug 2009 |
Dear Paris Notes Reader,
It is with deep regret that I must inform you that the July/August issue of Paris Notes will be the last issue of Paris Notes. After more than 17 years of publishing, in which we published 173 uninterrupted issues and over 1,300 articles, we are forced to stop publishing Paris Notes due to economic reasons.
During the past 17 years it has been our distinct privilege to provide you with passionate, reliable, quality Paris information. We've visited every corner of the city, dined in hundreds of restaurants, checked out countless hotel rooms, had more than a few coffees in a multitude of cafés, ogled art and artifacts in every single museum in the city, walked hundreds of blister-prone miles of Paris sidewalks, interviewed luminaries and lightweights alike, endured weather of all extremes, and kept a daily vigil for even the smallest shred of information that would be of interest to you, the Paris Notes reader.
During this journey into the depths of Paris, many people have made invaluable contributions. We've always been -- by design -- a small and humble publication, one that tried to put substance before form, and familiarity before fashion. I would like to thank the following special people without whom I would have been writing this letter many years ago: Linda Koike, Evawn Lewis, Bonnie Trenga, Mary McAuliffe, Rosa Jackson, Vivian Thomas, David Downie and Amanda MacKenzie. These people and dozens of others over the last 17 years have made Paris Notes a joy to do, and they have provided me with inspiration, motivation and friendship -- and they made Paris all that much more special for me.
The Paris Notes journey is over, but your Paris journey will continue. Our friends at France Today magazine have extended the gracious offer to fulfill the remaining issues of your Paris Notes subscription with an electronic version of France Today. Louis Kyle, publisher of France Today, took over the company four years ago. He has done an extraordinary job with the publication, along with his Editor-in-Cheif, Judy Fayard, a lifelong magazine editor and Paris resident for 30 years, and Assistant Editor Vivian Thomas, our own longtime collaborator. With its superb roster of free-lance contributors, France Today’s Paris coverage is now the best in the world and their coverage of the rest of France will be a huge bonus for former Paris Notes subscribers. Louis has assured me that he will take the best of care of all former Parisian Notes subscribers. If you are already a subscriber to France Today, Louis will extend your current subscription for the number of issues remaining in your Paris Notes subscription.
As for the 50 back issues of Paris Notes, they will remain at this address, and will be available to the general public until Sept 1, 2010.
Click below for complete information and a full explanation of the changeover.
France Today Transition Information
Last of all, I would like to thank all of you for your support of Paris Notes, for your many generous and kind compliments about Paris Notes over the years, and for being such an engaged, intelligent and receptive audience -- an editor's dream, actually.
So, it is with a heavy heart, that I bid you adieu. Maybe someday we'll meet in Paris. I hope so.
Sincerely,
Mark Eversman (e-mail)
Editor, Paris Notes
