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Alexandr Radayev
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Versailles and Arkhangelskoye
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The Olympic Flame in the Louvre
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A Telegram Admin, Then?
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A Paris drinking fountain in the 20th and 21st centuries
A drinking fountain in Paris in the 20th century and in the 21st. From which century would you care to take a sip?
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Clotilde Forgeot d'Arc in the role of her famous kinswoman, Joan of Arc, the Maid of Orléans, at a festival in her honour
Clotilde Forgeot d'Arc in the role of her famous kinswoman, Joan of Arc, the Maid of Orléans, at a festival in her honour. Clotilde plays Joan of Arc in historical reconstructions of battles. The young woman descends from Joan of Arc's elder brother Pierre, who fought
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A Lego Set for Bastille Day
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Naples, photograph by Ferdinando Scianna, 1997
Naples, photograph by Ferdinando Scianna, 1997. On the wall is a work by the painter Ernest Pignon-Ernest
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Ruins of the St Mark's Campanile and the damaged Biblioteca Marciana, Venice
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On 14 July 1902, a dreadful thing happened in Venice: the bell tower of St Mark's Basilica collapsed in Piazza San Marco, with repair work under way on its roof
On 14 July 1902 a dreadful thing happened in Venice: the bell tower of St Mark's Basilica collapsed in Piazza San Marco, with repair work under way on its roof. The main causes of the collapse were said to be wear and tear, the effects of earthquakes and
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The Holy Synod banned the New Year tree in 1916 amid anti-German feeling in the First World War
In 1916 the Holy Synod banned the New Year tree. A tradition that had come from Germany was swept up in the general anti-German hysteria of the First World War
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