Tag Archives: Paris

Marie Antoinette and her Children: The mystery and the history of Louis Charles in the tower. Part 2

By Culture& Stuff | Published: May 4, 2010
In part 1 of this story, we followed the rapidly deteriorating fortunes of the young Louis Charles, son of Marie Antoinette, as his family faced imprisonment in the forbidding tower of the Temple, his father, Louis XVI, was sent to the guillotine, and he was wrenched away from his mother and placed under the tutelage [...]
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Is Paris Burning: Did a German General save the City of Light?

By Culture& Stuff | Published: February 12, 2010
In February 1943, there was nothing in Stalingrad but the ghost of a city. The scale of the battle that had raged for the past seven months was so unimaginable that it is nearly impossible to talk about it without resorting to empty cliché. There are the figures, of course – 850,000 Axis casualties, 1.1 [...]
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A King of Beasts in Revolutionary Paris

By Culture& Stuff | Published: January 22, 2010
I’ve just started reading the eclectic and lively Georgian London blog, and came across this piece about the menagerie at the Tower of London, which existed in various forms from 1252 until its closure in 1835, at which point its collection of animal inhabitants formed the basis for London Zoo. The story of the menagerie (once [...]
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