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In places, Paris really does look like a field of ruins. The paving on the Place de la Concorde, for instance, now looks just so. Public works are perhaps the most frequent complaint my Parisian acquaintances make against the administration of Anne Hidalgo, who has run the city since 2014
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On 11 April Netflix will show Princess Diana's scandalous and notorious BBC interview of 20 November 1995, watched by 23 million people. It was spoken of as "the interview that shook the world". Twenty-six years have passed, and it is still not entirely clear why
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A very charming piece of double dressing by Elizabeth II and her youngest son Edward, Earl of Wessex, in 2004. In the arms of Sophie, Countess of Wessex, is their elder daughter, Louise Windsor.
Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations · Society Pages
MMOMA on Petrovka has opened an exhibition of the New York graffiti artist Hharif Guzman, bringing together his photographs, videos, graffiti, posters, signs, installations, paintings, boards and even such an art object as a shirt bearing a placard reading "this is my shirt". A very coherent and vivid
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Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, The Death of Marshal Lannes, Duke of Montebello. We see Napoleon holding Lannes and pressing him to his chest. Tarle writes that Napoleon wept for the second and last time in his life when the dying Marshal Lannes lay in his arms: one of his closest friends
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Art Week positively teems with bright events, and here at the Triumph Gallery is the presentation of a sumptuous album from Shaltai Editions. The vivid fuchsia portfolio Le Jardin, with silkscreen prints by Alexandra Vertinskaya, sets the spring mood in a barely thawed Moscow, quite literally. The album reproduces 8
Aristocracy · Monarchies · People
You may be surprised, but France has a king even today. Although the title is disputed, most legitimists and monarchists regard the titular Duke of Anjou, a direct heir of Louis XIV and a member of the Spanish royal family, Luis Alfonso de Borbón, as the titular King of France.
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Monarchist sentiment in France remains strong to this day, and the view of Louis XVII as an innocent victim has taken hold of many minds. Thus there is well-founded talk that a monument ought to be raised to Louis-Charles, Louis XVII, dedicated also to all infant and child
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Louis-Charles of France, second son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, was confined in a dungeon and for several years subjected to torture. After the execution of his parents he was regarded as King of France, Louis XVII. A remarkable child, filled with courage, dignity and intelligence, he lived