As a thank you to my newsletter readers--you! thank you!--I've created a free mini-walk about the wonderful medieval RUE DE BIEVRE on the Left Bank, with its...

Before the Cathedral, there was a church. Before the church, a temple. Before the temple, a place of offerings to a river god. A roof is not what's sacred ab...

I wrote my first radio play recently, and YOU CAN LISTEN TO IT FOR FREE, by clicking on the elevator picture below. The play is called NON-FIGURATIVE SCULPTU...

Several people at the Curious Minds lectures asked me for a reading list about Inventing Modern Paris. Which is a great idea! But I have some trouble winnowi...

Every now & then, I get to read at the long-running series, Spoken Word Paris. Though I can't click my heels and bring you to the downstairs "cave" of Le Cha...

Every now and then, somebody does something SO annoying that the best solution is to challenge them to a duel. Or so Princess Pauline von Metternich believed...

what we talked about when we talked about Paris at the Hot Docs morning sessions Hello Monday morning people! As requested, here is a list of the people & pl...

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