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Alexandr Radayev
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Not very well known, but still the winner of several film awards as director, actress and screenwriter, Zabou Breitman is the daughter of the fairly recognisable, if second-rank, actor, director and screenwriter Jean-Claude Deret…
Not very well known, but still the winner of several film awards as director, actress and screenwriter, Zabou Breitman is the daughter of the fairly recognisable, if second-rank, actor, director and screenwriter Jean-Claude Deret, a descendant of baptised Jews from Russia. Zabou's mother is the actress
Observations · Mores · Paris · People
I read about Françoise Dumas, an 85-year-old Parisian society organiser and legend of the dinner party, who for the last 50 years has been engaged in the country's most important gala dinners, balls and other such rendezvous…
I read about Françoise Dumas, an 85-year-old Parisian society organiser and legend of the dinner party, who for the last 50 years has been engaged in the country's most important gala dinners, balls and other such rendezvous, is acquainted with royal and presidential families, and continues
Art · Museums · Heritage
Sentences passed on those behind the theft of Cattelan's golden toilet from Blenheim Palace
Participants in the theft of the golden lavatory have been sentenced. The landmark work by Maurizio Cattelan, the very Italian-American who taped a banana to a wall, entitled "America", was stolen straight out of a museum in 2019. At around five o'clock on the morning
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The Wheel of Fortune in a 15th-century edition of Boccaccio's “Lives of Famous Men and Women”
The Wheel of Fortune in a 15th-century edition of Giovanni Boccaccio's "On the Fates of Illustrious Men and Women" is shown as a carousel, with a king seated at the very top while courtiers go flying off the rickety side seats
Archaeology · Art · Museums · Rome
Bronze Boxer with Copper Inlays Found on the Quirinal Hill in Rome in 1885
In the spring of 1885, a magnificent bronze sculpture of a resting boxer was found during excavations on the Quirinal Hill in Rome. The most interesting thing is that, unlike many finds from antiquity, this sculpture was originally hidden on purpose. Its excellent state of preservation is explained precisely by
London · Monarchies · Society · Humour
George II moved the monarch's birthday to summer, and since 1748 it has been marked on 14 June
No, Charles III was not born on the same day as Donald Trump. But it so happens that both of them celebrated a birthday today. Only Donald Fredovich does so by right of birth, whereas Charles Philipovich does so by right of the crown. The point is that all English
Museums · Paris · Ethnography
Falconry hoods and the training of hawks and falcons to wear them
What Do Henpecked Husbands Have to Do with Birds of Prey? The klobuk is not only a monk's headdress: it is also the name of the little cap placed on a hunting bird, covering its eyes completely and its ears in part. The hood is needed to calm
NB! · London · Monarchies · Observations
I did not know that since 2022 Kate Middleton has held the honorary ceremonial post of Colonel of the Irish Guards, one of the elite regiments of the British Army
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Painted or Real?
Architecture · Faith · Observations
Sagrada Família in Barcelona to be completed in 2026 after 144 years of construction
Incidentally, Gaudí's legendary creation, the Sagrada Família in Barcelona, will be completed in just a few months. The longest architectural project in the world has now been under construction for 144 years, and according to the calculations of the foundation managing the works, the building will definitely be
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