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Lost Paris: The Dark (and Dirty) History of the Parc des Buttes Chaumont

By Culture& Stuff | Published: July 6, 2011

There are certain places in the world where sadness collects and seeps into the ground; certain gnarls, certain pockmarks, certain flaws that crept in during the formation of the face of the earth, which can never heal. Here is a picture of one of them. The Parc des Buttes Chaumont, by Jean-Louis Vandevivère via Wikimedia Commons. [...]

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Did Truth, Beauty, Freedom and Love Ever Really Reign at the Moulin Rouge?

By Culture& Stuff | Published: June 13, 2011

Yesterday found me watching Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge!. This, I must confess, is not an entirely uncommon occurrence. In fact, were I to feed all my innermost preferences into some kind of film-making robot and send it off for a few months, it’d probably come back with something very like Moulin Rouge! in the can. [...]

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Lost Paris: The Cimetière des Innocents

By Culture& Stuff | Published: June 8, 2011

There are lost parts of Paris that grab at your heartstrings. You yearn to rediscover them, to experience what it would have been like be there for a stolen evening. There are parts of lost Paris that should never have been allowed to die, whose absence, whether anyone still feels it or not, is a [...]

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Lost Paris: A snapshot of 1730s Paris

By Culture& Stuff | Published: May 20, 2011
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This wonderful, 33 megapixel, zoomable marvel is known as the Turgot Map of Paris, and it’s a remarkable document in all sorts of ways. I like to imagine that were you to be offered the chance to drift above Paris in a hot air balloon in the 1730s (disregarding the fact that this was impossible, [...]

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History, with more Jumpy Bits: are video games a new avenue for history?

By Culture& Stuff | Published: February 10, 2010

There was an article in Literary Review recently, in which DJ Taylor bemoaned the state of publishing and the literary world in general, culminating in the conclusion that reading a book is, by and large, a more valuable and more rewarding activity than watching a film, laughing at a stand-up comedian or hunkering down over [...]

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