Is theater in Paris romantic and Romantic? Yes indeed, Romantic with a capital “R” as in Romanticism and the Great Romantics.…
The life and times of critically acclaimed author David Downie in Paris and Rome, France and Italy.
Month: January 2015
The Arsenal Library in Paris The Age of Romanticism lives on in Paris, in the streets, parks, buildings and cityscape—and in the hearts and…
Louis XVI shown as a glutton, Revolutionary era caricature Caricature has always been a dangerous business in France: starting from the earliest days of…
The spirit of 1789–and 1830, 1848, 1871, 1944, 1968 and 2015 (not to mention a dozen dates in ancient, medieval, and pre-modern history–lives on. When…
Blame Nadar: his noir—noir et blanc I should say—influence helped lure me to Paris way back when. I wanted to take up residence in…