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Pope Francis Drops In for a Cup of Coffee

Screenshot of the Uber app listing the Berline, Comfort, UberX, Van and Uber Fashion tariffs with prices in euros.

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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

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Andrei Rublev's Trinity on a Prayer Book of the Church of Saint-Sulpice

Blue starry vault and painted walls of the nave of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, seen from below.

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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

Gothic pinnacles and gargoyles of the cathedral, with a dark spire rising behind them amid scaffolding. A red crane boom stretches up against the grey sky on the right.

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Notre-Dame de Paris under restoration: spire, scaffolding and a crane

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Notre-Dame, beloved, still in its scaffolding frock

A sword, a gold collar with an order badge and a bicorne hat on a cushion inside a gilded display case in a museum hall.

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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

Black and white pen drawing of a slender woman with a full hairstyle and closed eyes, holding a cigarette, with Hirschfeld's signature below.

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Portrait of Maggie Smith by caricaturist Al Hirschfeld, 1971

Portrait of Maggie Smith by the Broadway caricaturist Al Hirschfeld. 1971: so in more than 50 years she has scarcely changed

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The Best Fashion Find in Paris Today Is a Children's Version of the Dress from the Portrait of Caroline Murat

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In the Environs of the Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery

In the environs of the Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery. A painting by Levitan and my own recent photograph

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The Leap of the Dancer Palucca and Kandinsky's Graphic Scheme for the Photograph

Engraving of two tattooed men seated on the ground under a tree, with a hut, palms and mountains behind and a Russian and German caption below.

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Engravings after Tilesius von Tilenau in the Atlas to Krusenstern's Voyage Around the World, 1813

Engravings after drawings by Wilhelm Gottlieb Tilesius von Tilenau. From the “Atlas for the Voyage Round the World of Captain Krusenstern”, 1813. Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts