The European Federation of Napoleonic Cities, created by Charles Napoleon, launches the trademark and logo “Ville Impériale” (Imperial City) in the town of Rueil-Malmaison, home to Josephine’s Chateau de Malmaison.
While Paris’s seasonal crop of exhibitions, theater and music clamors for attention, the numerous national and religious cultural centers of Paris yield their fruit year-round to lesser fanfare. These centers welcome members and outside visitors [...]
Paris, September 11, 2011. With the Eiffel Tower as backdrop behind two 80-foot replicas of the Twin Towers, an American and a French flag flying to either side, France commemorated the 10th anniversary of the [...]
On August 21, 1911, Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre by Vincenzo Peruggia, an Italian laborer living in Paris. Now, 100 years later, a new documentary puts together the missing pieces of the theft and of the life of the thief. Read this exclusive interview with the filmmaker.
Thirza Vallois recounts tales of seduction and wealth and the skirt-chasers of the Marais, including Victor Hugo, DSK, a duke, a king and a playwright.
July 4, 2011 – France Revisited celebrates the Fourth of July with a photo reportage of the major Statues of Liberty in Paris, along with the author’s homegrown version. Here below is the original 1/16th plaster [...]
Parisians will soon be able to take a boat to work, while visitors can navigate their way through the city by cruising along the Seine River. Public transportation will soon expand to a fluvial level [...]
“There’s nothing to see here,” he says before we enter room #5 at the Auberge Ravoux, the inn where Vincent Van Gogh lived and died at Auvers-sur-Oise, 18 miles northwest of Paris. “There’s nothing to [...]
The architectural heritage of France—local, regional, national, European—is part of what makes this the world’s number one tourist destination and what makes Paris such as magnificent walking city. But should that architectural heritage be maintained at all cost?
