Maritime Museum in Paris
On August 11, 1858, the emperor Napoléon III arrived in Brest in his uncle’s boat, the Canot de l’empereur, rowed by twenty oarsmen, with a golden Neptune on the front Read More …
Category: 16th arrondissement
Cité de l’architecture & du patrimoine
This architecture museum traces its history back to the year 1795, but in its current form it didn’t open until 2007 in the east wing of the Palais de Chaillot. Read More …
Trocadéro
There always seems to be a festive atmosphere up on the roof of the Chaillot Theater, where people from all over the world come to look at the Eiffel Tower. Read More …
Indicateur d’Itineraires
Here’s a Blast from the Past for you: an electric “Indicator of Itineraries” such as used to be found in about half of the Paris Métro stations. I came across Read More …
The Loft of the Goncourts
In France there is a prestigious literary prize called the Le prix Goncourt, which is awarded each December to the author of “the best and most imaginative prose work of Read More …
Mirabeau Bridge in Paris
The Mirabeau Bridge across the Seine was built in the 1890s and was considered a remarkable technical achievement at the time. It connects Auteuil on the Right Bank (16th arrondissement) Read More …
The House of Balzac
Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850), author of the many books comprising La Comédie Humaine, lived in this house in Passy for seven years in the 1840s. He did not own the Read More …
Concert at Radio France
I have a thing about woodwind instruments. If I believed in reincarnation I think I would want to come back as a flute. But only as one particular flute played Read More …
Musée Guimet
The Musée Guimet is a highly respected museum of Asian arts, founded in Lyon in 1879 and moved to Paris in 1889. It is located in this listed building on Read More …
Villa Montmorency
After checking into my hotel in an unknown city or district, one of the first things I like to do is take a walk around the block, just to see Read More …