The Arc de Triomphe was commissioned by the Emperor Napoléon I in 1806 to celebrate the triumph of his armies over the rest of Europe in the early nineteenth century, particularly his triumph over the Russian and Austrian Empires at the Battle of Austerlitz in 1805. In recent decades, however, Read More …
This square in the ‘Quarter of the Monceau Plain’ in Paris is now officially called Place du Général-Catroux after the French five-star General Georges Catroux (1877-1969), who was one of the principal leaders of the Free French forces under General de Gaulle during the Second World War. Until 1977 the Read More …
In the ‘Quarter of the Monceau Plain’, one of the four quarters of the 17th arrondissement in Paris, there is an entire ‘national’ museum devoted to the painter Jean-Jacques Henner (1829-1905), who is described in the museum’s brochure as “an ‘official’ painter in the epoch of impressionism.” What this means Read More …