Category: PARIS
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Idle thoughts on the Eiffel Tower
What is the Eiffel Tower? Come to think of it, who is the Eiffel Tower?
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Jean Mermoz, man of letters
The dramatic life, death and afterlife of a French aviation hero
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REVIEW Musidora qui êtes-vous?
The many lives and enduring afterlife of a silent-era sex symbol
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Catsuited, rebooted
Veteran French director Olivier Assayas has spun his cult 90s film Irma Vep into a sexy, funny and dizzyingly multilayered TV series…
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REVIEW Paris dans l’oeil de ses habitants
As anyone who follows one of its social media accounts will know, Paris ZigZag is a stylish and authoritative guide to the French capital’s culture and history…
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REVIEW The Vanished Collection
“I love riddles and mysteries”, writes the heroine of this real-life detective story, and the one she sets out to solve leads deep into a tangle of European and family histories…
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REVIEW The French Royal Wardrobe
No, not a book about a large cupboard: the Hôtel de la Marine, on place de la Concorde in Paris is a storage facility on an altogether different scale…
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REVIEW Timeless Paris
They could just as easily have called it Time Travel Paris. This beautiful book is a portal into the past, via 18 shops and museums…
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REVIEW A la Recherche du Paris de Marcel Proust
For almost 30 years, French publisher Parigramme has been putting out books on just one inexhaustible subject: Paris. Nearly all are excellent, and a handful are in English…
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REVIEW L’Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped
Bulgarian-born US artist Christo had the idea to wrap the Arc de Triomphe in fabric as far back as 1962, but permission wasn’t granted until 2019…