Since it was the middle of February I was prepared for snow, slush, sleet, gale-force winds and freezing temperatures, but in fact it was dry and frost-free the entire time, and on my last day we had brilliant sunshine and temperature readings from 17° C. at noon up to 20° Read More …
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 house, but was the tenant of a five-room apartment at the level of the garden. He once wrote that he Read More …
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 by a particular person. The concert I went to at the House of Radio France was all about woodwind instruments Read More …
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 the Place d’Iéna in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. The founder, Émile Guimet (1836-1918), was a wealthy industrialist from Lyon. Read More …