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Van Gogh and Zadkine in Auvers-sur-Oise: Is There Anything to See?
“There’s nothing to see here,” he says before we enter room #5 at the Auberge Ravoux, the inn where Vincent Van Gogh lived and died at Auvers-sur-Oise, 18 miles northwest of Paris. “There’s nothing to...
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Not Exactly a Restaurant Review of Quai Ouest in Saint-Cloud
Since I write occasionally about food, wine and restaurants, let me say off the bat that it would be inappropriate for me to accept an invitation to a restaurant that I didn’t intend to take seriously....
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Photolog of a Daytrip to the Chateau de Chantilly
The Chateau de Chantilly is 25-minute train ride (26 miles) north of Paris at the entrance to the Picardy region. From the Chantilly train station it’s a 20-minute walk through this quiet old town of...
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Ville Impériale (Imperial City), a New Trademark, Promotes Napoleonic Tourism
Think what you want about Napoleon but there’s no denying that he’s the man behind many modern changes in life and politics in France, a prime example being the introduction in 1804 of the Civil Code,...
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An Hour from Paris: Chateau Thierry’s American WWI Sights (photolog)
Belleau Wood, the Aisne-Marne American War Cemetery and the Chateau Thierry War Monument are only an hour’s drive from Paris, in Picardy, an easy stop on the way to Champagne, but it took me over 20...
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Beyond Versailles: The Chevreuse Valley, Breteuil, Vaux de Cernay, Rambouillet
Versailles has such star power as both a town and a palace that it eclipses the surrounding countryside on most maps. Beyond Versailles the eye tends to follow the Seine out of the department of...
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Quentin Roosevelt, fils du président américain, mort pour la France le 14...
Un entretien France Revisited avec Christiane Sinnig-Haas, auteur d’un ouvrage sur l’Américain Quentin Roosevelt (1897-1918), fils cadet du Président Théodore, mort dans un combat aérien au dessus de...
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Quentin Roosevelt, President’s Son, the Most Famous American Killed in France...
Quentin Roosevelt, son of Theodore Roosevelt and his second wife Edith, was shot down by German planes during aerial combat over France on July 14, 1918, northeast of Paris between Château-Thierry and...
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Radiating from Paris: Our Glorious Ladies of Gothic Architecture (Part I:...
As Paris prepares the jubilee celebration honoring the 850th anniversary of the beginning of construction of Notre-Dame Cathedral in 1163, France Revisited pays homage to that great Gothic monument at...
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Radiating from Paris: Our Glorious Ladies of Gothic Architecture (Part II:...
As Paris prepares the jubilee celebration honoring the 850th anniversary of the beginning of construction of Notre-Dame Cathedral in 1163, France Revisited pays homage to that great Gothic monument at...
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Yours, Mine, Le Nôtre’s: An American Photographer Examines the Garden of...
As France celebrates the 400th anniversary of the birth of André Le Nôtre, the father of French gardens, France Revisited explores some of this 17th-century landscape gardener’s most famous gardens and...
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Vice & Versailles: A Master Gardener Delves Into the Dark Shadows of the...
As head gardener of Versailles Alain Baraton is responsible for restoring and maintaining the majesty of the backyard of kings, but he appears to relish in declaring that “Versailles was a great shop...
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Near Paris: The Giverny – La Roche-Guyon Daytrip Combo
Over the years I’ve visited Monet’s gardens and lily pond at Giverny at various times during its open seasons, April 1 to November 1. I’ve witnessed it in their various stages of bloom and rebloom, and...
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Street Art: Gilles Sacksick, the Animal Painter… and Artist
Once or twice a week I pass the National Veterinary School of Alfort, in Paris’s southeast suburb of Maisons-Alfort, on my way to play tennis. It’s an old complex (the school was founded in 1766), now...
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What’s THAT at Versailles? Anish Kapoor and “The Queen’s Vagina”
Despite the fact that Louis XIV dragged every artist he could find to Versailles in the 17th century, bringing contemporary sculpture to the palace in the 21st century has been fraught with controversy...
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