Paris Update Press Review
This Week’s Good Reads about Paris and France
NEW PARIS HOME FOR GIACOMETTI The Fondation Giacometti has announced that in 2026 Paris’s Gare des Invalides will become the new home for its permanent collection of the sculptor’s work, temporary exhibitions and an art school open to all. (ARTnews) … Read More
Paris Update Press Review
This Week’s Good Reads about Paris and France
VAN GOGH IN PARIS The great Vincent van Gogh, who arrived in Paris in 1886 and befriended Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, claimed the city did him “a world of good.” (Literary Hub) CUTTING-EDGE BOOKS For the first time, a Frenchwoman, Annie … Read More
Wallace Fountains
Water, Water Everywhere – and Plenty to Drink
Wallace Fountains are among those elegant touches on Paris’s urban landscape that visitors marvel at and photograph without really knowing what they are or how they got there. In fact, they are perfectly functional public drinking fountains that combine practicality … Read More
Paris Update Press Review
This Week’s Good Reads about Paris and France
GREENING NOTRE DAME The new landscape design, by Bas Smets, for the environs of Notre Dame calls for more greenery, a cooling system for the parvis and an underground archaeological museum in a former parking lot. (The Guardian) THE SPIRIT … Read More
Paris Update Press Review
This Week’s Good Reads about Paris and France
WALKING AROUND PARIS A 320-mile hiking trail around Greater Paris takes visitors to an astounding number of architectural and natural wonders. (National Geographic) RIGHT TO ABORTION “For all women, for human rights, we must engrave this acquired right in stone,” … Read More
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