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Lost Paris: A Night at the Palais-Royal

By Culture& Stuff | Published: July 1, 2011

It’s a July evening in 1786 and you’re visiting Paris for the first time. Perhaps you’re staying with an elderly aunt. You’re quite fond of the old goose really, and to give her her due, she’s been an expert guide to most of the sights of Paris you’ve always dreamt about. But she is a […]

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Lost Paris: The Pont Neuf, ‘the Eiffel tower of the Ancien Régime’

By Culture& Stuff | Published: June 16, 2011

In the next three posts in the Lost Paris series, I’m going to be looking at the Pont Neuf, the fair held annually at Saint-Germain, and the Palais Royal. Though two of these three still exist, and are probably high on any visitor’s must-see list, what they are today is but a shadow of what […]

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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: The Elephant on the Place de la Bastille

By Culture& Stuff | Published: May 24, 2011

Of all the strange monuments that ever appeared on the Parisian skyline (and there have been a few), one of the most outlandish is surely the Elephant that occupied the Place de la Bastille in the wake of the Revolution.   The Bastille prison had been despised by Parisians for many reasons, not least among […]

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