Letter from Paris January 2021
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On visits to the train stations and cemeteries of Paris.
On visits to the train stations and cemeteries of Paris.
On a visit to the cemeteries of Paris on All Saints’ Day.
On the lessons of two stories by Guy de Maupassant and Marcel Prévost.
On “Gabrielle Chanel, Manifeste de Mode” at the Palais Galliera, Paris.
On book burning, Louis XIV & lectures on Dostoevsky.
On Napoleon’s mother and her life in the Eternal City.
On “Jean-Jacques Lequeu: Visionary Architect” at the Morgan Library & Museum.
On recent performances of Boieldieu’s La Dame blanche and Rossini’s Petite messe solennelle.
On the Civil War, Houellebecq & the state of Classics.