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Population growth of Moscow and Saint Petersburg from 1800 to 1900
Population of London, New York, Paris, Berlin, Saint Petersburg and Moscow in 1800, 1830, 1871 and 1900. Moscow: 250,000 - 305,000 - 601,000 - 1,175,000 Saint Petersburg: 220,000 - 442,000 - 668,000 - 1,418,000
Books · Observations · Paris · Humour
The Louvre bookshop places cacti between its book tables
Cacti! The Louvre's bookshop has found an original and long-awaited solution to the problem of visitors squeezing between tables laden with stacks of books and knocking them over, catching them with a sleeve, a bag or a hip. Cacti placed between the tables will unfailingly halt the
Archive · Society · Paris · People
Jacques Chirac in photographs from 1968 and the 2000s
Our House Is on Fire, and We Are Looking the Other Way. Jacques Chirac. In the photograph: Chirac in the 2000s and in 1968
Archive · Observations · Paris · People · Nature
Salvador Dalí, aged 65, emerges from the underpass of the Bastille Métro station on the rue de Lyon with an anteater
Salvador Dalí, aged 65, emerges from the underpass of the Bastille Métro station on the rue de Lyon with an anteater. The anteater is not his: the animal was provided for the photo shoot by the Jardin des Plantes. Very well. But have you never wondered by what right, exactly?
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Coco Chanel descending the staircase of her Paris atelier in 1961
Coco Chanel on the staircase of her atelier. Paris, 1961
Museums · Heritage · Society · Paris
The French government has presented a bill intended to simplify the restitution to their countries of origin of works of art removed in the colonial era, reports Artguide
The French government has presented a bill intended to simplify the restitution to their countries of origin of works of art removed in the colonial era, reports Artguide. If the law is adopted, the process of returning objects from France's national collections that originate from states which lost
Archaeology · Observations · Paris
Digest of July publications on Charlie Hebdo, excavations at Pompeii and Ithaca, and La Scala
July gives way to August, time for a digest of the month's publications. Charlie Hebdo, archaeological discoveries, underground luxury factories, ancient Greek heroes, French actresses and much more in a selection of the channel's key materials 📌 The personal recollections of the daughter of the founder of
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Vincent van Gogh's funeral on 30 July 1890 and the brothers' graves at Auvers-sur-Oise
The graves of the brothers Vincent and Theo van Gogh in the municipal cemetery at Auvers-sur-Oise, 30 km from Paris. Vincent van Gogh was buried here on 30 July 1890, the day after his death. The local newspaper ran the following notice: “On Sunday, 27 July, a certain
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Borges at the Sorbonne in 1978
Archive · Monarchies · Paris · People · Humour
Louis XVI's Fear of Cats and Two Incidents of Killing Them
Louis XVI could not abide cats and was mortally afraid of them. Once, during a brilliant reception at Versailles, a cat somehow slipped into the hall; Louis, beside himself, leapt from his seat, seized a heavy candelabrum and killed the animal on the spot. On another occasion, hammer in hand,
Archive · Society · Paris
Liberation of Paris in 1944, Russian partisans in the Resistance and de Gaulle's visit to Moscow
The Liberation of Paris, Summer 1944, Unknown Photographer. Paris was liberated soon after the opening of the Second Front, at a time when everyone understood that the Red Army was about to reach the borders of the USSR and would shortly begin its advance westward. The city was liberated by