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The Berline tariff in the Uber app and the popular Uber Fashion tariff
I travel Berlin class, black cars. But what proves popular is the “Uber Fashion” fare
Alexandr Radayev
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Andrei Rublev's Trinity on a Prayer Book of the Church of Saint-Sulpice
Aristocracy · Monarchies · Observations · Humour
Physical resemblance of Princess Beatrice, Princess Victoria of Wales and Queen Victoria
A Case in Which There Can Be No Doubt of Aristocratic Descent. Princess Beatrice, niece of King Charles III and daughter of the notorious Prince Andrew, was born in 1988, and her distant relation Princess Victoria of Wales, daughter of Edward VII, was born in 1868. The same shadows beneath
Books · People · Humour
French writer Albert Simonin lighting a cigarette beside a canal
The Earth Is Round, but There Are Idiots on Every Corner. The French writer Albert Simonin
Observations · Society · Paris · Nature · Humour
Even the Paris City Hall Is Now Asking: Girls, Please Stop Behaving Like This
On the fence of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, as at other historic monuments, there are posters with the plea "Stop the rats!" and an explanation: waste left on the ground attracts rodents. On the whole, it is just like private life: the more waste you leave behind, the
NB! · Archaeology · Architecture · Faith · Paris
Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Paris, the city's oldest church, which gave its name to the district
The oldest church in Paris, the Church of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, which gave its name to the Faubourg Saint-Germain. Parts of the church preserve elements of the building of the 11th and 12th centuries. To the left of the altar stands a statue of the Madonna of the
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Notre-Dame de Paris under restoration: spire, scaffolding and a crane
NB! · Architecture · Observations · Heritage · Paris
Notre-Dame, beloved, still in its scaffolding frock
Art · Museums · Science · Paris · People
Edelfelt's portrait of Louis Pasteur, the rabies vaccine and pasteurisation
As Louis Pasteur said, a Sunday spent in the laboratory: could a Sunday be better spent? In this portrait of the laboratory by the Finnish artist Albert Edelfelt (1885), from the collection of the Musée d'Orsay, Louis Pasteur holds a flask containing the spinal cord of a rabbit
Coming Up · Art · Museums · Paris · People
Horseman, Dora Maar, 1936
She is best known as Picasso's muse and lover, which, alas, often leaves her own work overlooked. Yet what Maar did as a photographer and as a Surrealist artist occupies a place entirely apart. Indeed, once you have seen her works, you will always recognise her hand in
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Napoleon's sword, necklace and bicorne at the Army Museum in Paris, his sabre at the State Historical Museum in Moscow
Napoleon's sword and coronation necklace, together with the bicorne he wore at the Battle of Marengo, are in the Army Museum in Paris. I would remind you that in Moscow, the State Historical Museum displays Napoleon's sabre
Architecture · The East · Art · Heritage
The Parthenon in Jacques Carrey's 1674 painting and its destruction in the 1687 siege of Athens
As of 1674, when this painting was made, the Parthenon in Athens was intact. More or less in its original form, if one sets aside the Ottoman decorative transformation. Jacques Carrey, the French artist famed for his Athenian sketches, who belonged to the retinue of the French ambassador to the