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Workers laying cobblestones on a Paris street in 1936, a photograph by Fred Stein
Paving in Paris, 1936. Fred Stein. Have you noticed that in Moscow the surface is laid by an altogether different technology?
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Perhaps not the most suitable portrait for comparing Louis XIV to Apollo
Monarchies · Science · Education · Paris
Charles V, the College of Maître Gervais and astrology teaching at the University of Paris
Charles V of France reads, seated on his throne; beside the books on the table stands an armillary sphere, an astronomical instrument for determining the coordinates of celestial bodies. Charles V made a considerable contribution to the development of astrology. He opened a faculty at the University of Paris to
Archive · Art · Mores · Paris
Robert Doisneau’s “The Kiss” from the 1950 Life shoot to the court case and the auction
Robert Doisneau's famous photograph "The Kiss" was taken for Life magazine in 1950. Doisneau noticed a couple kissing in a Parisian café and proposed that they take part in a shoot, paying them a handsome 500 francs, which in our day is almost 1,500 euros.
Monarchies · Society · Paris
The Women's March on Versailles in 1789 over bread shortages and high prices
The Women of Paris Go to Call on the King at Versailles, 5 October 1789. It was the March of the Women on Versailles, or the march of the women for bread, 234 years ago, that became one of the key turning points of the French Revolution. The women of
NB! · Architecture · Art · Paris
Carl Bergsten's Swedish pavilion at the 1925 exhibition that gave Art Deco its name
The Swedish Pavilion, built by Carl Bergsten, at the 1925 International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts. It was the very title of this exhibition that gave the Art Deco style its name: from “arts décoratifs” in Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes
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Fashion Week in Paris
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Charles Aznavour on the Champ de Mars in front of the Eiffel Tower
Art · Museums · Paris
Give me your portrait, I'll put it in the larder, so the children don't pinch the sweets
The Artist's Family, Noël Coypel, 1690. From the exhibition of works by Coypel from the Louvre's collection at the Grand Trianon
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In 1948 Robert Doisneau secretly photographed passers-by at a gallery window with a nude painting
In 1948, the French photographer Robert Doisneau made a series of secret photographs of people who had caught sight of a nineteenth-century painting of a female nude in the window of an art gallery. Doisneau hid his Rolleiflex behind an antique chair, so that he was nowhere to be
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Countess Virginia La Castiglione and her photograph archive at the Metropolitan Museum
Countess Virginia Oldoini di Castiglione (1837-1899) fell in love with being photographed before it became mainstream. Thanks to the fact that her archive of photographs found its way into the Metropolitan Museum as early as the nineteenth century, dozens of portraits of this society intriguer, courtesan and Parisian fashionista
Art · Monarchies · Society · Paris
Antoine Augustin Parmentier, Chief Apothecary of the Hôtel des Invalides, presents the first potato harvest to Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette on the Plaine des Sablons in 1786
Antoine Augustin Parmentier, Chief Apothecary of the Hôtel des Invalides, presents the first potato harvest to Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette on the Plaine des Sablons in 1786. Antoine Parmentier received from the king 54 acres of land on which to cultivate the potato and make it fashionable among the