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A Passion for Paris: Literary Dinner Event at Piedmont Restaurant in Durham

    Join us at one of America's premier gourmet, organic restaurants, Piedmont Restaurant, in Durham, South Carolina, for an extraordinary feast featuring my new…

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A Passion for Paris: France’s Most Popular Writers Then and Now are Romantics

  photos courtesy Alison Harris   A couple of jpegs of Le Figaro. They show “the best-loved most widely read writers” in France. Guess who…

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A Passion for Paris: Beautiful Bagatelles, Charles X, Debauchery and Romance

A Passion for Paris: Romance at Bagatelle David Downie, March 2015     Were Romance and Romanticism in Paris born at the Bagatelle, possibly the…

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A Passion for Paris: George Sand, Romanticism’s Great Woman Happy?

  George Sand was the "Great Woman" of the Romantic Age, according to Victor Hugo. If anyone could make that claim it was Hugo. Successful,…

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Starred Review for A Passion for Paris on Kirkus Reviews

Bonjour!  I can’t help sharing this rave, starred review in the notoriously "difficult" (discerning?) Kirkus Reviews:   KIRKUS REVIEW Join Downie (Paris to the Pyrenees: A Skeptic Pilgrim…

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A Passion for Paris: the Romance of Paris Theaters Then and Now

        Is theater in Paris romantic and Romantic? Yes indeed, Romantic with a capital “R” as in Romanticism and the Great Romantics.…

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A Passion for Paris: The Age of Romanticism lives on in Paris

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…

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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…

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