Now Showing on Your Home Computer Screen May 1968 as seen on French television. © INA. While politicians and the entertainment industry argue about the right to download music and videos from the Web, France’s Institut National de l’Audiovisuel has … Read More
Paris Modern The handsome main staircase. A new building in the heart of Paris is a true rarity in these days of fervent architectural preservationism, but one has nevertheless gone up in the Latin Quarter, designed for some of France’s … Read More
To Market, To Market Seura’s overview of what the new Halles quarter will look like, from the Bourse du Commerce (bottom) to the Cdntre Pompidou (top). Back in the 12th century, a marketplace was built on a former swamp in … Read More
Belleville Up Close and Personal One of Belleville’s bucolic passageways. Belleville, a neighborhood full of unexpected charms, straddles two of Paris’s double-digit (19th and 20th) arrondissements, far from the city center. It remains practically unknown to tourists, and the residents … Read More
Black Is So 17th Century Plus ça change…. There may be nothing new under the sun, but the Sun King himself had plenty of nouveautés up his billowing sleeve. Almost everything we know about fashion today, according to Joan DeJean’s … Read More
What Once Was Lost Now Is Found An employee stores some of the 500 objects turned in every day. All is not lost for those whose pockets are picked in the Métro or who lose an antique earring in the … Read More
Every Dog Will Have His Daycare Above: Romeo, a Canicrèche boarder, peeps out of the exercise room. Below: the boutique. It seems strange that no one has ever done it before in this city where the canine is king, but … Read More
A Modern Relic Preserved Architecture Studio’s winning design for the €240 million renovation of the Maison de Radio France. Debate over Paris’s architectural landscape rages on. Following a general outcry against Mayor Bertrand Delanoë’s choice of David Mangin’s inoffensive design … Read More
High Speed, High Fashion Above: relaxing first-class color scheme. Below: more vibrant second-class hues. April 27, 2005: One endearing thing about the French is the way they have of dressing up public servants, even meter maids, in designer outfits. Air … Read More
Commuting on the Seine A regular water bus may soon run up and down the Seine. April 6, 2005: Following a recent meeting of municipal and transport authorities, it seems likely that a regular water-bus line, to be called the … Read More
