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Francis Bacon, Triptych May-June, 1973 by Justin E. H. Smith Depression, Melancholy, and the Historical Ontology of Wretchedness 1. After some initial shopping, I settled on my current Parisian...
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A centrepiece of Haussmannian modernity: the Avenue de L’Opéra (1864-79) and the Palais Garnier (Opera) (1861-75) by Charles Rearick Paris has long been the most visited city in Europe, but most of it...
View ArticleDouglas Penick on Pierre-Albert Jourdan
Eric Huybrechts: Mont Ventoux, 2008 (CC) by Douglas Penick We cannot imagine any kind of life without development, evolution, change, forward motion. We cannot imagine our own lives without some sense...
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Caratello: The Poetry Of Empty Promises, 2022 (CC) by Philippe Marlière On the face of it, the results of Sunday’s first-round French presidential election look like a carbon copy of those in 2017....
View Article‘We have returned to the France of the 1950s or the 1930s’
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View Article“Long periods of grand coalitions provoke in voters a sense of collusion”
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View ArticleHow do nationalist-minded fascists think transnationally?
Unknown photographer: Rioters attacking mounted police with projectiles outside the Place de la Concorde during the 6 February 1934 crisis (CC) From Fascism: Dissatisfied with Édouard Daladier’s...
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View ArticleRadio Franprix
Ariel Schlesinger: Franprix, 2006 (CC) by Justin E.H. Smith The signaling behavior of human beings is intricate indeed. Forty years ago a man, seething with desire, issued forth a string of identical...
View ArticleTurgotonomics
Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Raguenet, The Hôtel de Ville and the Place de Grève, 1753 From Politico: World markets continue to reel from the British government’s free market reform fiasco. New British Prime...
View ArticlePassed in Paris
thierry llansades: Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume, Basilique Sainte-Marie-Madeleine, 2016 (CC) by Justin E.H. Smith Some Memories of the Life and Work of Bruno Latour (1947-2022) Down in the crypt of...
View ArticleThe French capital had around 30,000 cafes by 1900…
Charles Marville: Passage Saint-Guillaume toward the rue Richilieu (First Arrondissement), c. 1863 by Robert W. Brown W. Scott Haine The World of the Paris Cafe: Sociability among the French Working...
View ArticleTurmoil in 19th Century Spain
Francisco Goya, Portrait of Ferdinand VII of Spain in His Robes of State, 1815 by Dan Royle Nineteenth Century Spain: A New History Mark Lawrence London, Routledge, 2019. 212pp. At a time when the...
View ArticleStuart Elden on Georges Dumézil
Guilhem Vellut: Collège de France, Paris, 2016 (CC) by Stuart Elden In May 1940, the month of the invasion of France by Germany, a short book by the comparative mythologist and linguist Georges Dumézil...
View ArticleUsing Your Illusions by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho
by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho / In a Paris restaurant, old-fashioned and poky, a waiter dragged a small wooden table to the window in a space just big enough for her to squeeze in and sit down. In that odd...
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