Paris: Ferrari 275 GTB Eye View
On an August morning in 1978, French filmmaker Claude Lelouch mounted a gyro-stabilized camera to the bumper of a Ferrari 275 GTB and had a friend, a professional Formula 1 racer, drive at breakneck...
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Tunneling in Paris
Generations of Yale undergraduates have defied authority by seeking adventure exploring the subterranean world of steam tunnels connecting buildings in the main portion of the campus. Who knew that...
View ArticleNude Models Protest in Paris
TopNews reports on the latest struggle for the rights of man in the City of Light. A huge number of models in Paris, who pose in the buff and perform as muses for artists, took to the streets in a nude...
View ArticleSplitscreen
I really don’t think New York City compares terribly well to Paris, but the maker of this cleverly crafted little video, shot entirely on the Nokia N8 mobile phone does a heck of a job at trying. Not...
View ArticlePlaces to Go, Things to Do
These local festivities are characterized by a prominent humor site as insane, but I think several of the are of distinct historical or anthropological interest and the ones where you throw fiery...
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Color Photographs of 1914 Paris
Porte de Paris, August 14, 1914. It is always a bit disconcerting to be reminded that the distant past existed in brilliant colors and not simply in the sepia tones of of the black and white photos we...
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Preserved in Amber
Boldini painting of grande horizontale subsequently sold at auction for £1.78 million The Daily Mail describes a Belle Époque Parisian apartment, locked up at the time of the WWII German advance on...
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“Paris is a Snooty, Unfriendly City’
Simon Kuper, last year, in the Financial Times, pondered the reasons behind Parisians’ notorious rudeness and concluded that being Parisian takes so much effort that everyone is perennially in a bad...
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Massacre in Paris
Three Islamic gunmen armed with fully-automatic AK-47s walked into the Paris offices of the French satire magazine Charlie Hebdo around midday today and opened fire, killing at least twelve people. 10...
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Je Suis Charlie
According to Twitter analytics tool Topsy, there have been more than 70,000 tweets using the JeSuisCharlie: hashtag so far today. Social media are exploding with world-wide indignation over the...
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Charlie Hebdo Attack Victims
Among the slain: from left, clockwise, Stephane Charbonnier, known by his pen name Charb, editor of Charlie Hebdo; Georges Wolinski; Bernard “Tignous” Verlhac; Lead cartoonist Jean “Cabu” Cabut; and...
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Mush From the Wimp*
At 3:40, Obama says: “I don’t want to speculate at this point in terms of who was responsible for this…” As soopermexican puts it: “Obama of course, came out and said that he canâ€t speculate on who...
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“I’ll Take ‘What You Won’t See on the MSM for $1000’, Alex”
Via Clarice “Final Jeopardy” Feldman.
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“Wave-Tossed, But Not Sunk!”
Claire Berlinski reports that graffitists in Paris have responded to the attacks by painting on walls the city’s medieval Latin motto. This phrase is the motto of Paris. It means, roughly, “tossed...
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Shield of the First French Spec Ops Officer to Enter the Bataclan Theater in...
US Marines on Facebook today were applauding the owner of this shield which bears the marks of most of a magazine of AK-47 rounds and a fair amount of suicide vest shrapnel.(picture source: iTele...
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“The Flowers and Candles are Here to Protect Usâ€
Some douchebag plays John Lennon’s “Imagine” on a piano with a Peace Sign outside Paris’s Bataclan Theater. Kathy Shaidle, at Taki Mag, tells us just how grossed out she was by some of the popular...
View ArticleTravelling in Style
Yves Géniès drives a Bugatti Type 41 Royale across Paris. La Traversée de Paris avec la Bugatti Royale , escorté par l'ami Raymond Loiseaux et son équipe Honda Goldwing , un souvenir inoubliable...
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French Catholic Clocks Muslim For Interfering With Rosary Prayers
Mad World News: A group of around 20 French Catholics was quietly praying the rosary in Paris just hours after the funeral of Father Jacques Hamel, the priest who was recently “beheaded†by Muslims...
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Best Door in Paris
At 29 Avenue Rapp in the 7th arrondissement, very close to the Eiffel Tower. Built between 1899 and 1901, this Art Nouveau masterpiece by Jules Lavirotte is quite striking. The detailed door was...
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Claire Berlinski Tackles Molière
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (Moli̬re РCompagnie Michel B) THEATRE ESPACE MARAIS (2) Claire Berlinski was writing a book about Foreign Affairs (I forget the detail), and I guess it has not been going...
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Art Noveau Architecture
————————– Lavirotte Building (1901), 29 Avenue Rapp, 7th arrondissement, Paris. I bet people who live here smile every time they see that doorway.
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Behind a Wall in Paris
In Paris, renovation work for a new retail store wound up revealing a treasure concealed within the wall. NYT Alex Bolen, the chief executive of Oscar de la Renta, planned to have his new store in...
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Boat Moored in Front of the Louvre for Sale
espaces-atypiques: This magnificent boat sailing 25 meters/82 feet, is moored in one of the most sought after areas of the Latin Quarter. Classified of heritage interest, it has a roof of 16m/52.5′...
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Good News
The Crown of Thorns Many of the most important treasures of the Cathedral of Notre Dame were saved. The facade and the two front bell towers survived as did the three Rose Windows over the main...
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Putting a Biplane Through the Arc de Triomphe
As part of the World War I victory celebration on the Champs Élysées, Jean Navarre, the ace among French fighter pilots with twelve air victories, was chosen to fly through the Arc de Triomphe. He...
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Nice Vacation Rental
Rue Quincampoix is a one-bedroom, two-bathroom home in Le Marais. On the sitting room’s mezzanine, you’ll find another sumptuous bed, making the office the comfortable quarters for a third guest....
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