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The Press Office of Malmaison Reports That Jacques-Louis David's Bonaparte Crossing the Great St Bernard Pass Has at Long Last Returned to the Native Walls of the Residence of Napoleon Bonaparte and Joséphine de Beauharnais from the Brooklyn Museum in New

The press office of Malmaison reports that Jacques-Louis David's Bonaparte Crossing the Great St Bernard Pass has at long last returned to the native walls of the residence of Napoleon Bonaparte and Joséphine de Beauharnais from the Brooklyn Museum in New York. Before that, the canvas was

Education · Society · Paris

French debate over the Marseillaise lyrics in schools after the 2019 education bill

"Let their impure blood water our furrows": shall it flood our fields and orchards in an instant? Some years ago a public debate flared up in France over the words of the republic's national symbol, the Marseillaise. Should children hear and sing words that preach cruelty,

Coming Up · Art · Museums · Paris

For those who do not intend to crawl out of the house today, I suggest a visit to the Getty Museum's online exhibition on artsandculture.google, devoted to eighteenth-century pastel painting, namely to how pastel competed with oil, and artists began…

For those who do not intend to crawl out of the house today, I suggest a visit to the Getty Museum's online exhibition on artsandculture.google, devoted to eighteenth-century pastel painting, namely to how pastel competed with oil, and artists began to make large pastel canvases from

Observations · Society · Paris · Humour

Urban improvements in Paris's La Chapelle district and local authority policy

Paris, oh, Paris! Faugh, what a backwater! My eyes are simply popping out of my head at the "improvements" in the La Chapelle quarter. What is that supposed to be called? Inclusivity with solar panels and flowers? In principle, it is hard to say who has done Europe

Architecture · Museums · Heritage · Paris · People

François Palloy and Souvenir Models of the Bastille Made from Its Stones

A miniature replica of the Bastille with eight towers, made from stone from the Bastille's wall. An original souvenir devised by a man who styled himself the demolisher of the Bastille. A bustling contractor, engaged in pulling down the Bastille before any public debate had formed around the

NB! · Paris · Nature · Humour

Nature has been so cleansed during quarantine that the pigeons have returned to the Vendôme Column

Architecture · Art · Paris

Christo Javacheff's project to wrap the Arc de Triomphe in Paris postponed to 2021

In 2021 Christo Planned to Wrap the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. https://theparnassian.com/stalo-izvestno-chto-grandioznyi-proekt-khudozhnika-khristo-iavasheva-po-upakovke-triumfalnoi-arki-v-parizhe-perenositsia-s-oseni-etogo-goda-na-2021/?single

Cinema · Paris · Pop Culture · Humour

Now would be just the moment to flee to Switzerland in a Rolls-Royce, with the boot full of gold bars and two million francs under the leather back seat, even if in old-issue notes, from before the 1960 redenomination, and most certainly with a distinguis

Now would be just the moment to flee to Switzerland in a Rolls-Royce, with the boot full of gold bars and two million francs under the leather back seat, even if in old-issue notes, from before the 1960 redenomination, and most certainly with a distinguished Louis Vuitton travel

Art · Monarchies · Mores · Paris

Marie de' Medici and the child Louis XIII in an engraving, his harsh upbringing and her exile

Marie de' Medici and her young son, King Louis XIII of France. She arrived in Paris immediately after the murder of Henry IV and took power, which is to say that she, of course, gained more from his death than anyone else. Louis in this engraving may be 8

Art · Monarchies · Paris · People

Ravaillac's Assassination of Henry IV in Paris on 14 May 1610 and His Execution

The regicide François Ravaillac is shown in an engraving with the very dagger with which he took the life of King Henri IV in two blows, having leapt onto the step of his carriage, which had halted on the rue de la Ferronnerie in Paris on 14 May 1610. Ravaillac

Monarchies · Museums · Heritage · Paris

The cultural institutions of France have held sales of valuables before: recall the sale of the crown jewels in 1887

The cultural institutions of France have held sales of valuables before: recall the sale of the crown jewels in 1887. At the same time the state disposed of a great deal of truly valuable palace furniture on the pretext that it held no historical interest. Historians look with horror on

Coming Up · Art · Heritage · Society · Paris

Le Mobilier national to auction palace furniture during Heritage Days on 20 and 21 September

The French state agency Le Mobilier national, which is responsible for valuable works of art, furniture and interiors in government institutions, palaces and collections, will hold an unprecedented auction on Heritage Days, 20 and 21 September. All proceeds from the sale of palace furniture, paintings, hangings, bronzes and the like