When to Go to Paris? (Hint: There's No Universal or Canned Answer)

In all the years I’ve covered Paris, the question I’ve been asked more predictably than pretty much any other is an anxious “When do you recommend I go?” Again and again, I’ve disappointed those hoping for me to neatly solve their dilemma, sparing them from the agony of choice and the possibility that they’ll regret making it. I invariably tell them th…