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Versailles rail disaster after which France stopped locking railway carriages
On 8 May 1842, France's first railway disaster occurred on the line between Versailles and Paris. The train, returning from the celebration of King Louis-Philippe's birthday at Versailles, was running with two locomotives, one at the head of the train and one at the rear.
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Allegories of the Seasons on Rouen faience from the Nicolas Fouquay manufactory, 1730s
The Seasons. Rouen faience, Nicolas Fouquay manufactory, 1730s. The anthropomorphic allegories of the seasons take their cue from the style of Ovid's "Metamorphoses". Winter is represented by a pensive old man. The Rouen faience manufactory is known for the virtuosity of its masters, and it is
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Tureen with cabbage and crayfish from the silver dinner service of Louis XV, the work of the celebrated French goldsmith and engraver Jacques Roettiers III
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A frightening engraving of the September Massacres in Paris in 1792, at its centre the murder of the Princesse de Lamballe, whose head and heart are borne aloft on pikes, while her beheaded, flayed body is dragged through the city streets from…
A frightening engraving of the September Massacres in Paris in 1792, at its centre the murder of the Princesse de Lamballe, whose head and heart are borne aloft on pikes, while her beheaded, flayed body is dragged through the city streets from the prison of La Petite Force to the
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Marie Antoinette was executed on 16 October 1793 at the age of 37
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The 1992 film “Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris” with Angela Lansbury and its 2022 remake
One of my favourite films with Angela Lansbury is the 1992 "Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris", which also stars Omar Sharif as the old lady's influential friend and Diana Rigg as one of the directresses of the House of Dior. The plot is simple: the
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Has everyone found Vera Mukhina's Worker and Kolkhoz Woman?
Painting by the French artist André Devambez, "The Paris World's Fair of 1937, View from the Eiffel Tower"
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Denis Foyatier created the marble Spartacus in 1830 while studying at the Villa Medici
This is not an antique sculpture. The marble Spartacus was made in 1830 by Denis Foyatier, who was completing his studies at the Villa Medici in Rome, as a reward for his successful progress at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris
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General Pierre Dominil, who lost a leg at Wagram, defended Vincennes Castle
Major Pierre Dominil lost a leg at the Battle of Wagram and earned the nickname "Wooden Leg". In 1812, by then a brigadier general, he became governor of the Château de Vincennes: and after the capture of Paris by the Allies, he held out to the last and
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The Cossacks of the Ataman Regiment
The Cossacks of the Ataman Regiment. The painting "The Return to Camp at Krasnoye Selo of the Cossacks of the Life-Guards Ataman Regiment" was painted by Jean-Baptiste Édouard Detaille in 1889 on commission from the Tsarevich Nicholas. It adorns the corner drawing room of the Alexander
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Princess Diana and Dodi Al-Fayed in the lift of the Paris Ritz on 30 August 1997, the last day before their deaths
Princess Diana and Dodi Al-Fayed in the lift of the Paris Ritz on 30 August 1997, the last day before their deaths. The third person in the lens of the surveillance camera is Claude Roulet, assistant to the president of the Ritz hotel