Quick Tip: Zola, Balzac, Hugo
Now the square is mostly filled with people who come in on the RER I am a history and literature nerd. If you throw in art history it is the ultimate trifecta; art allows you...
Category: Paris History
Chambre de Bonnes
Another one of those things I forget most people don’t know about “chambre de bonnes”. I won’t get into architecture or Haussmann. In my apartment I have 50+ books on Haussmann, Napoleon III, Paris City...
Beware for I am Fearless and Therefore Powerful
What’s that? Oh just the ghosts of thousands of dudes who died 1900 years ago Might make this a regular feature. Because let’s be real Paris isn’t getting any newer. I am a history nerd. I...
Beware for I am Fearless and Therefore Powerful
What’s that? Oh just the ghosts of thousands of dudes who died 1900 years ago Might make this a regular feature. Because let’s be real Paris isn’t getting any newer. I am a history nerd. I...
A Generation Which Ignores History Has No Past and No Future
Au Vieux Paris d’Arcole As we all know Baron Haussmann carries the reputation as destroyer of ancient Paris. Let’s all overlook that Paris has been destroying itself for thousands of years, but yeah, okay he...
A Generation Which Ignores History Has No Past and No Future
Au Vieux Paris d’Arcole As we all know Baron Haussmann carries the reputation as destroyer of ancient Paris. Let’s all overlook that Paris has been destroying itself for thousands of years, but yeah, okay he...
Water, Water Everywhere, Nor Any Drop to Drink
This is a post about water (not Coleridge’s masterpiece). Not Paris’s world famous drinking water, which every French will proudly tell you wins awards, has it’s own Twitter, and is the cleanest in the world....
Water, Water Everywhere, Nor Any Drop to Drink
This is a post about water (not Coleridge’s masterpiece). Not Paris’s world famous drinking water, which every French will proudly tell you wins awards, has it’s own Twitter, and is the cleanest in the world....
The Carnavalet
There has been much buzz around Paris museums during Covid. One thing they kept saying was how happy they were to have the time to do restorations. The Louvre opened a new location. François Pinault...