“Paris Was Yesterday” by Taki in Taki’s Magazine 

The opening paragraph:

“A reader’s inquiry as to why I think Paris was yesterday has me remembering times past. When did the party end? According to the point of view of many night owls, the party ended when the Queen of the Night, Regine, shut down ‘New Jimmy’s’ and moved to London, where she flopped. Boring accountant types believe it was ‘les événements de soixante-huit,’ the student-worker revolt against de Gaulle, that did Paris in. Any way one looks at it, the events of 1968 signaled the party’s over, and it has stayed over ever since.”

Read the entire essay here.