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The Bataclan Theatre in Paris in 2021 and in 1920

The building won its fame precisely for its unusual architecture. It was originally a large café-chantant built in the fashionable chinoiserie style. The ground floor housed a café with a theatre, and above it was a large dance hall. In 1926 the building, inspired by Chinese architecture, was sold

Faith · Art · Books · Museums · Observations · Paris

"It is very hard for people to renounce the expediency of everything that happens in the world, and therefore hard to understand innocent suffering

"It is very hard for people to renounce the expediency of everything that happens in the world, and therefore hard to understand innocent suffering. To many it seems that if there is innocent suffering, then there is no God, no divine providence. This is one of the arguments of

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Can Sobyanin Be Summoned to Versailles?

Can Sobyanin be summoned to Versailles? If only for the duration of the repairs to the Parterre du Midi and the Parterre du Nord

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All the Same, Notre-Dame Is Too White and Too New Inside

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For a Couple More Weeks, a Stunning Exhibition of Works by Zinaida Serebriakova (1884-1967) Is on at the Russian Spiritual and Cultural Orthodox Centre on the Quai Branly in Paris, Supported by the Diocese of Chersonesus

The exhibition marks the 140th anniversary of the birth of the Russian-French artist and the centenary of her move from Russia to France. The exhibition has astonished the Parisian public. Serebriakova, already fairly well known, has revealed herself to still more people as an incredibly modern, talented, original and

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I Cannot Stop Seeing in the New Reliquary of the Crown of Thorns a Kabbalistic Matrix Executed by the Designers of a Turkish Hotel

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Caravaggio's Boy with a Basket of Fruit at the Musée Jacquemart-André, on tour with the masterpieces of the Galleria Borghese

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Beneath the main nave of the Grand Palais in Paris, the largest temporary indoor ice rink in the world has been open since 14 December!

Beneath the main nave of the Grand Palais in Paris, the largest temporary indoor ice rink in the world has been open since 14 December! A spectacle of great beauty, but I warn you at once: to get inside, you must arrive at least 2 hours ahead, as the whole

Two men in black uniforms and balaclavas stand at a stone balustrade beside a chimera statue, with Paris and the Eiffel Tower below.

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Two masked men beside a stone chimera in a photo by the Paris police prefecture

On guard. The most brilliant part is that this is a photograph from the Paris Prefecture of Police.

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The Christmas Tree at Notre-Dame de Paris

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Notre-Dame de Paris at night with searchlight beams in the sky and a pleasure boat on the Seine in the foreground.

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Paris Restores Its Reputation After the Olympics

Thank Heavens It Isn't a Rainbow! Paris rehabilitates itself after the Olympics

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At the reopening of Notre-Dame de Paris, the Archbishop of Paris, Laurent Ulrich, appeared in vestments by the celebrated French designer Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, aged 75, who in his day dressed Lady Gaga and Pope John Paul II…

At the reopening of Notre-Dame de Paris, the Archbishop of Paris, Laurent Ulrich, appeared in vestments by the celebrated French designer Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, aged 75, who in his day created outfits for Lady Gaga and Pope John Paul II. For the opening ceremony Castelbajac also designed vestments