Is theater in Paris romantic and Romantic? Yes indeed, Romantic with a capital “R” as in Romanticism and the Great Romantics.…
The Arsenal Library in Paris The Age of Romanticism lives on in Paris, in the streets, parks, buildings and cityscape—and in the hearts and…
Louis XVI shown as a glutton, Revolutionary era caricature Caricature has always been a dangerous business in France: starting from the earliest days of…
The spirit of 1789–and 1830, 1848, 1871, 1944, 1968 and 2015 (not to mention a dozen dates in ancient, medieval, and pre-modern history–lives on. When…
Blame Nadar: his noir—noir et blanc I should say—influence helped lure me to Paris way back when. I wanted to take up residence in…
