NB! · Museums · Palaeontology · Paris · Nature
The giant deer, or Irish elk. It became extinct about 20,000 years ago. The antlers of the animal spanned as much as 5 metres. This skeleton is kept in the Palaeontological Museum in Paris
Architecture · Faith · Observations · Heritage · Paris
Found the famous Parisian church of Saint-Roch in a sorry state. A church founded in the sixteenth century and rebuilt in the seventeenth under royal patronage. Anne of Austria herself appeared with the infant Louis XIV at the laying of the foundation stone of the new building. Here, in
NB! · Monarchies · Paris · People
The Dauphin of France, Louis Charles, with his little dog. The unhappy child died in the Temple prison on 8 June 1795 as a result of cruel treatment. He was only 10
NB! · Art · Paris · People
Self-portrait by Jean-Baptiste Chardin. The old man is wearing neither a turban nor a headscarf: it is a nightcap
NB! · Archaeology · Monarchies · Museums · Heritage · Paris · Rome
A long-awaited reunion! A copy of the finger recently discovered in the Louvre is being fitted to the hand of the Emperor Constantine in the Capitoline Museums
Science · Paris · People
In 1908 Ilya Mechnikov received the Nobel Prize for his work on immunisation: in his time he had discovered, in the larva of a starfish, mobile cells that destroy foreign bodies. The discovery of phagocytes made no proper impression on the scientific world, either in Russia or in the West.
Archaeology · Museums · Heritage · Paris · Rome
In 1858 the Louvre acquired part of the collection of the bankrupt Marquis Giampietro Campana. His property was divided between the English, the Russians and the French, and enriched the national museums. Among other things, France came into possession of an enormous bronze finger, 38 centimetres long. As early as
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The child's dragoon uniform of Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, first President of the French Republic and nephew of Napoleon. From the celebrated collection of fine objects assembled by Émile Hermès, now on display at Versailles
NB! · Paris · Pop Culture · Humour
The Parisian suit is when one hand is, quite literally, in the trousers. Fashion and the hardships of male existence
NB! · Heritage · Paris · Pop Culture
Books · Mores · Paris · People
The tale of the duelling nuns may derive from an episode in the life of the French opera singer and fencer Mademoiselle Maupin. She is said to have dressed as a nun in order to abduct her beloved from a convent, where the girl had been sent by her family&
NB! · Monarchies · Museums · Heritage · Paris
A collection of unique diamonds belonging to the Sun King, lost in the nineteenth century, has been recreated for the first time as full-size models and is on show in Paris at L'Ecole Van Cleef. The blue stone is called the Hope