Clémentine
A little park at the Place du Bourg-de-four in Geneva is the site of a remarkable statue, not of Rousseau or Calvin or the founder of the Red Cross, but Read More …
Tag: Sculpture
First guided walking tour of Toulouse
In Toulouse I went on two guided walking tours on two consecutive days. Both were organized by the city tourist office. The normal cost was listed as € 9.50 per Read More …
Monument to the Memory of the Girondins
In the early years of the French Revolution, the Girondins were an important political group in the Legislative Assembly and the National Convention. Many of the Girondins came from Bordeaux, Read More …
From Jeanne d’Arc to Jeanne d’Oc
Somehow I used to think that the cult of Joan of Arc was limited to northern France and was of little interest to the southern half of the country. After Read More …
Dina Vierny and the Maillol Museum
Aristide Maillol (1861–1944) was a French artist who spent most of his career drawing, painting and sculpting nude women.
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 …
Married in the city hall of the 13th
Nowadays, if you say a couple was ‘married in city hall of the 13th’ it just means they both said oui (yes) here in this building on the Place d’Italie. Read More …
Ernst-August-Platz in Hannover
This pompous equestrian statue of King Ernst August I, who ruled the Kingdom of Hannover from 1837 until his death in 1851, is located directly in front of the main Read More …
Hannover’s answer to Joe Btfsplk
Even on the sunniest of days or the clearest of nights, it never quite stops raining in Germany’s thirteenth largest city. Here in the pedestrian zone in downtown Hannover, at Read More …
Hope Square at Liverpool Street Station
By a strange irony of history, hundreds of thousands of refugees from war-torn countries have tried desperately, in recent years, to get into Germany. This is a huge change from Read More …