Our spring 2015, coast-to-coast extravaganza to celebrated the publication of A PASSION FOR PARIS: Romanticism and Romance in the City of Light, starts on April…
photos courtesy Alison Harris A couple of jpegs of Le Figaro. They show “the best-loved most widely read writers” in France. Guess who…
A Passion for Paris: Romance at Bagatelle David Downie, March 2015 Were Romance and Romanticism in Paris born at the Bagatelle, possibly the…
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…
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…
Paris to the Pyrenees: From a Traveler’s Notebooks, post 4 to To Vezelay on a Toy Train These blog posts are taken directly from…
Updated May 2, 2013: exciting new radio-book event added to schedule! See below!! Please come to one of the many events organized on…
Andrew Riggsby, Professor of Classics and Art History at The University of Texas, Austin is an expert on Rome and Roman history (among the…
Part Two of this three-part series on Paris, Paris is more than a two-fer it's a Multi-Fer: The Blvd Richard-Lenoir Market plus a…
As Paris, Paris cruises through it's ninth printing, and we enjoy the company on our private walking tours of more and more of its…
California awaits the Big One — the killer earthquake of the century — and Paris awaits its very own Grand Cru flood. No…
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