Young lovers who are foreign art students stroll arm in arm on a terrace in the Jardin du Luxembourg and are heading towards the statue of Saint Genevieve who was born in the 5th century and became the Patron Saint of Paris and of Gendarmes. The marble sculpture was made by the French sculptor Michel-Louis Victor Mercier in 1845. A woman wearing a headscarf is concentrating on her knitting sitting on one of the many park chairs, a sturdy iron chair that has been placed next to the plinth beneath the statue. 6e arrondissement, Left Bank, Paris, France, circa 1959. Photographer Harold Chapman recalls the idea behind the picture. " I was sent out to photograph Love in Paris so I looked up Love in Paris and discovered that the Patron Saint of Paris was Saint Genevieve in the Luxembourg Gardens on Paris's Left Bank just a few yards from the Sorbonne. This proved too arcane for the magazine editor and he sent me out to do something else." At the time, Paris was renowned for being the world capital of love and romance.