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  Charlie Hebdo and French Caricature: Children of the Revolution and Romantic Age

  Louis XVI shown as a glutton, Revolutionary era caricature   Caricature has always been a dangerous business in France: starting from the earliest days of political or religious caricature during the Age of Enlightenment, caricature artists have risked fines, imprisonment and worse–torture, beatings, assassination.     The Prince of Conde' (Louis Philippe), right, Political Badminton, […]

  
  Posted: January 13th, 2015 ˑ  Comments Closed
  Filled under: A Passion for Paris, A Passion for Paris spring 2015 book tour, A Passion for Paris: Romanticism and Romance in the City of Light, Charlie Hebdo, French caricature, Paris, Religion in France, Romance, Romanticism, Secularism in France, SF Bay Area book events, US Book Tour spring 2015, Victor Hugo
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  Paris to the Pyrenees, From a Traveler’s Notebooks, Part 13: The View from Vezelay or Religion vs Secularism in France

    Paris to the Pyrenees, From a Traveler’s Notebooks, Part 13: The View from Vezelay or Religion vs Secularism in France   These blog posts are taken directly from my notebooks. They contain much of the material that went into the final version of the surprise bestseller Paris to the Pyrenees: A Skeptic Pilgrim Walks […]

  
  Posted: April 3rd, 2014 ˑ  Comments Closed
  Filled under: Alison Harris photography, Basilica of Mary Magdalene, El Camino de Santiago, France, Nationalism in France, NPR books interview, Paris, Paris to the Pyrenees, Paris to the Pyrenees blogpost, Paris to the Pyrenees blogposts, Pilgrimage audio, Pilgrimage from Vezelay, Racism in France, Religion in France, Secularism in France, Vezelay