Aristocracy · Art · Observations · Mores · Paris · Pop Culture
Hosted by Baroness Marie-Hélène de Rothschild and her husband Baron Guy de Rothschild at their family estate, the Château de Ferrières in Seine-et-Marne, France. The dress code, written in mirror script, read: "Black tie, long dresses and surrealist heads". As the guests arrived, searchlights played
Art · Mores · Paris
A painting by Hubert Robert, Christie's Paris. Incidentally, on Madame Geoffrin's wall hangs yet another painting by Hubert Robert.
Architecture · Faith · Observations · Heritage · Paris
At last, some good news. Pity it is not ours. Still, the Parisian church of Saint-Eustache is to be restored. For a long time now one of the city's principal churches has been in less than perfect condition, and the announcement of repair and restoration work is
Archive · Architecture · Paris
Spiral concrete ramps for reaching the second level of the Eiffel Tower by car. So as to get to the restaurant without bothering with the lift. This is how the symbol of France might look today, had the project proposed in 1936 by the engineer André Badvan been carried out.
Architecture · Faith · Heritage · Society · Paris
In Paris, a cornice has collapsed at the Church of Saint-Roch. Thank God, no one was hurt City activists had been raising the alarm about the church's precarious condition, and the town hall's inaction, for more than ten years
In the Press · Museums · Observations · Society · Paris
It is hard to single out any aspect of this Louvre director's tenure that has not come in for devastating criticism. Her departure can therefore rightly be called an act of responsibility, whoever may have initiated it Farewell, de Carmont - read my text on the crisis at the
In the Press · Museums · Heritage · Society · Paris
What should have happened four months ago, after the robbery of the Louvre, has now come to pass: its director Laurence des Cars has resigned, and the President of France has accepted her resignation. And he promptly sent her off to work on cooperation between major museums as part of
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Dalí created the backdrop for the ballet Bacchanale, a surrealist production of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. Dalí also wrote the libretto and designed some of the costumes for the production. Besides Dalí, the creation of the ballet involved Coco Chanel and Prince Alexander Shervashidze, the legendary set designer
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Archaeology · The East · Art · Museums · Paris
Down the mountain comes the routed army of the enemy, begging for mercy, while up the mountain climb Naramsin's soldiers, full of vigour. One of the outstanding monuments of Akkadian art, dating from around 2250 BC, though found in Iran rather than Iraq: in 1898 French archaeologists discovered
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Meet her! Epstein. Elizaveta Ivanovna Epstein. Born in the Russian Empire in 1879. She received her artistic education in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, where she worked in private studios and attended classes at the Academy of Arts. She studied under Leonid Pasternak. At the beginning of the twentieth century she