I visited Paris in 2018 and then Notre Dame burned in 2019. It seemed like a huge loss to global cultural patrimony, but France has evidently done one hell of a job of restoration and it is about to reopen. In a world where everything...
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Left: Rally at the place de la République in Paris on 15 November 2015 (Credit: Citron / CC-BY-SA-3.0). Right: Protest at the place de la République in Paris on 28.
Paris, Pont Saint-Michel, 1961: "Here we drown Algerians" Sixty years ago today, Algerian migrants around the Paris region gathered for a peaceful march to protest a restrictive and discriminatory curfew..
As we figure out exactly what happened, the more we do know about the Notre Dame fire, the more it begins to remind me of the Brazilian museum fire from last year, which burned up the nation's historical heritage. This Twitter thread puts together a...
The loss of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris today is an unspeakable tragedy. Having visited Paris for the first time last year, there aren't words to describe this. It seems.
This is the grave of Peter Abelard and Héloïse d'Argenteuil. The story of Peter Abelard and Heloise is well-known and I'm not going to go into tons of detail about.