This picturesque art-deco façade — made mainly of ceramic tiles — provides a welcome splash of color on the otherwise undistinguished Cours de Vincennes at the eastern end of Paris. Zaengerler et Roussel was an enterprise that made tiles and mosaics. The company no longer exists (having gone bankrupt in Read More …
This large cemetery in the 20th arrondissement of Paris is popular with tourists because some famous people are buried here. If you go in at the main entrance you can get a map to help you find the graves of people like Gioacchino Rossini, Maria Callas, Édith Piaf, Jim Morrison Read More …
This was one of those rare exhibitions that changed my whole way of looking at the world. When I came out onto the street (Rue de Ménilmontant) I had the feeling that everything I looked at was unique or quirky or distinctive or funny — or that it was iconic Read More …
Belleville is a traditionally working-class district in the east of Paris, straddling the 19th and 20th arrondissements. I think I first heard of Belleville from Puccini’s opera Il tabarro (the first of the three short operas of Il trittico), in which the illicit lovers Giorgetta and Luigi discover that they Read More …