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Malcolm McLaren Paris (1994)   ' The only artist capable of rekindling the spark of hope in the past is the one who is  firmly convinc...

Vander Clyde (c.1899-1973) aka Barbette Photo by Man Ray (1925) / Poster by Charles Gesmar (1926) Where there is loveliness of appearance, t...

Paris est toujours une bonne idée     I.    I'm currently reading a big fat book of essays, short stories, and poems by over seventy aut...

Juliette Gréco by Erwin Blumenfeld (1951)     Juliette Gréco - the face (and voice) of chic postwar Paris and muse to numerous Left-Bank poe...

Philosophy begins with an experience of disappointment  - Simon Critchley I. La déception It's arguable, I think, that t...

I. We are, of course, far removed in time from the Paris that enchanted so many writers and artists in that period between 1871 ...

croire aux ruines ... I. It's a shame that the fire at Notre-Dame only destroyed the roof and spire, leaving the towers and mos...

  Paris and Petticoats     She's French ☑ She lives in Paris ☑ She loves vintage fashion ☑ She's very beautiful ...

One of the more amusing scenes in The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle features Sid Vicious wandering the streets of Paris i...

  L'Inconnue de la Seine  (c. late-1880s)  A favourite pin-up of necrophiles I. How Even the Dead Can Continue to Make a...

For all its romantic idealism and revolutionary fanaticism, there's still something about May '68 that I can neither ...

A happy couple on the Pont des Arts before the removal  of the love locks on June 1st  The decision taken by the municipal author...