Apr 22, 2021
Apropos of nothing in particular
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On various recent & not-so-recent books of interest in Paris’s bookstores.
On various recent & not-so-recent books of interest in Paris’s bookstores.
A Gallic stand against illiberal ideology.
On French aristocrats at the twilight of the ancien régime.
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.