Oct 23, 2020
Week in review
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On book burning, Louis XIV & lectures on Dostoevsky.
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.
On the achievements and legacy of the late historian.
On the engineer of the French organ revival.
On A German Officer in Occupied Paris: The War Journals, 1941–1945 by Ernst Jünger.
On Paul Jacobs and the French tradition.