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On the official poster for the 2024 Paris Olympics, the Christian cross has been removed from the spire of Les Invalides
What scoundrels they are, they are no longer ashamed of anything
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The 1910 Paris flood and the end of wooden block paving on the city's streets
The Paris flood of January–February 1910 was the worst since 1658. The Seine itself did not burst its banks, but the rise of the water in it and in its tributaries flooded most of the city through the sewers, drainage pipes and underground tunnels, the Metro included. Hundreds of
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A Girl Resting by the Water
A girl resting by the water. The artist is Étienne Dinet, who fell in love with Algeria and its people and created a beautiful Algerian cycle. The painting is now on show at the Institut du monde arabe in Paris, in an exhibition that runs until June
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The Ceiling of the Grande Galerie at the Louvre Recalled the Elaborately Painted Ceilings of the Ancient Egyptian Art Hall at the Pushkin Museum
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Versailles in Winter
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France's first glass house, built for Jean Dalsace between 1928 and 1932
Maison de Verre, the House of Glass: Pierre Chareau's ambitious and avant-garde project in Paris, at 31 Rue Saint-Guillaume. The house was built between 1928 and 1932 for Dr Jean Dalsace, a physician and well-known Communist, and a close friend of the designer Pierre Chareau,
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Furniture by the French architect and designer Pierre Chareau, 1920s and 1930s
Furniture by the French architect and designer Pierre Chareau, 1920s and 1930s. Today the pieces of furniture and decor created by Chareau sell for tens of thousands of euros. Even the most modest of them, a small paper holder, went at auction in 2021 for 8 thousand. The gallery shows
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Rembrandt, Lion Resting, 1645/1650, Louvre collection
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Residential block in Paris at the corner of Rue Eugène Sue and Rue Simart, one of the highest housing densities in the world: 3,321 flats, more than 10,000 residents on 0.03 sq. km
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The Olympic medals of the 2024 Paris Games will be inlaid with hexagonal plates of iron taken from the Eiffel Tower, a direct nod to the chief symbol of France
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The Wild Boar
The Wild Boar. By the Florentine sculptor of the seventeenth century Giovanni Battista Foggini. Louvre
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Man Created by Prometheus and Brought to Life by Athena
Man Created by Prometheus and Brought to Life by Athena. Ceiling painting in the Louvre. By Jean-Simon Berthélemy and Jean-Baptiste Mauzaisse, 1802 and 1826.