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 …
Tag: Sculpture
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 …
The three Dumas
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 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 …