City of Lights: Les Invalides

Le passé est un pays étranger : on y fait les choses autrement qu’ici.

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City of Lights: Notre Dame

Le passé est un pays étranger : on y fait les choses autrement qu’ici.

City of Lights: Ile de la Cité

Le passé est un pays étranger : on y fait les choses autrement qu’ici.

Crêpes Suzette

Thin pancakes swimming in orange juice, orange zest, Curaçao or Grand Marnier, melted butter and sugar.

Imperial contretemps

The film Mathilde has been accused of being melodramatic. The real story of her life is far more interesting.

Social amnesia in Russia today

We are what we remember.

“To see the cherry hung with snow”

The delicacy of cherry blossom is associated with transience. That may be why A.E. Housman felt moved to compose one of his most famous poems, first published in A Shropshire Lad (1896).