Exciting news! Commissioner Daria Vinci’s Second Investigation (after Red Riviera: Murder on the Italian Riviera) is coming out on November 1, 2022. Published by Alan…
Join us at one of America's premier gourmet, organic restaurants, Piedmont Restaurant, in Durham, South Carolina, for an extraordinary feast featuring my new…
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,…
Louis XVI shown as a glutton, Revolutionary era caricature Caricature has always been a dangerous business in France: starting from the earliest days of…
Horsing around, in regal fashion Why was the reign of Louis XIV considered France’s “Golden Age?” Keep reading and might find out. Louis’ period…
To mark the May 2014 release of the paperback version of Paris to the Pyrenees: A Skeptic Pilgrim Walks the Way of Saint…
Paris to the Pyrenees, From a Traveler’s Notebooks, Part 13: The View from Vezelay or Religion vs Secularism in France These blog posts…
Paris to the Pyrenees, From a Traveler’s Notebooks, Part 12: Asquins, Homely Sister of Vezelay These blog posts are taken directly from my…
If you've been following this blog you know that when Alison Harris and I set out to cross France we started in Vezelay (well,…
Andrew Riggsby, Professor of Classics and Art History at The University of Texas, Austin is an expert on Rome and Roman history (among the…
