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Until June the Richelieu Library in Paris is hosting the exhibition "Inventing the Renaissances", which leads visitors from a scholar's study buried in manuscripts to the magnificent royal bookshelves

Until June the Richelieu Library in Paris is hosting the exhibition "Inventing the Renaissances", which leads visitors from a scholar's study buried in manuscripts to the magnificent royal bookshelves. The display consists of manuscripts, codices, printed books and a great many works of art, showing the

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The gilded apartment of Madame du Barry on the upper floor of the Palace of Versailles

Louis XV came to the apartments of his favourite, Madame du Barry, by a private staircase. The corridor leading to the countess's twelve-room suite is so narrow that two people can barely pass in it. As for the furnishings, Madame du Barry saw to it that her

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Possibly the most beautiful doors in Paris: the carriage entrance of the Hôtel of the Dutch Ambassadors in the Marais, an old eighteenth-century mansion that belonged to the immensely wealthy entrepreneur Louis Letellier, who let the house to a playwright

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Notre-Dame de Paris stands firm, and is none the worse for wear

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The Paris Opera of the architect Charles Garnier, built in 1875

A long queue of visitors with white umbrellas beside the glass building of the Fondation Louis Vuitton, with a Rothko exhibition pavilion on the right.

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Queue for the Mark Rothko exhibition at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, with online booking

The queue at the Fondation Louis Vuitton for the Mark Rothko exhibition. On the right, those with tickets booked online; on the left, those without

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Statue of Joan of Arc in gilded bronze in the Place des Pyramides in Paris

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A very familiar and pleasing air about the paintings of the young Franco-Israeli artist Nathaniel Herbelin, currently on show at the spring exhibition in the Musée d'Orsay

A group of carpenters in hard hats waves from the rafters of Notre-Dame's new timber roof frame, with scaffolding and stone towers behind.

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Carpenters mark completion of the Notre-Dame roof framework

Carpenters salute the completion of the roof structures of Notre-Dame. It is gratifying that the church is regaining its physical body. And it is especially pleasing to see such a close-knit company of masters of an ancient biblical trade, who have applied their skill and put their souls

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Alice Guy-Blaché, Gaumont Secretary and the First Woman Fiction Film Director

"I am afraid you are too young, Mademoiselle." "Never mind, that will pass." So Alice Guy-Blaché recalled her engagement as a secretary at the Gaumont company, a post that made her the first woman in history to direct a fiction film. Between 1896 and 1920

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The Alley in the Luxembourg Gardens, Vincent van Gogh, 1886

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