Now and then, then and now… The scene opens with thousands of “love locks” glinting on a bridge spanning the Seine. Competing accordionists play…
photos courtesy Alison Harris A couple of jpegs of Le Figaro. They show “the best-loved most widely read writers” in France. Guess who…
A Passion for Paris: Romance at Bagatelle David Downie, March 2015 Were Romance and Romanticism in Paris born at the Bagatelle, possibly the…
George Sand was the "Great Woman" of the Romantic Age, according to Victor Hugo. If anyone could make that claim it was Hugo. Successful,…
