Nifty historical spy novel, in which an MI5 operative is sent to Paris to deal with a blackmail case with political repercussions. The PM is Ramsay Macdonald.
The author of several good books on Russian imperial history turns her attention to the array of gifted exiles in Paris after the Revolution: Nijinsky, Diaghilev, Bunin, Chagall, Stravinsky,... read more
AdeC is a superb social historian and here she has found a subject supremely worthy of her skill. Her cast here comprises Wyndham Lewis, Aldous Huxley, Tristan Tzara, Ezra Pound, Louis Arago... read more
A brilliant hour-by-hour recreation of what happened on 27 July 1794, from the midnight when Robespierre was in full control to the midnight when he was on the run.
Amrit Kaur was a Punjabi princess who lived in Paris in the 1930s, and who sold her jewellery to help save Jews. Arrested by the Gestapo, she died in a concentration camp.
Artisan trades of Paris - a ribbon maker, the boiseries of Feau et Cie, pastel crayons still rolled as they were in the time of Degas, etc., presented by a designer, artist and shopkeeper. M... read more
1870 was a cultural Golden Age, but it was also the background for the Dreyfus Affair and the violence of the Commune. This panorama is shown through the eyes of the age's personalities.
Glorious photographs of the Parisian skyline - zinc, slate and copper bliss, at dawn, at dusk. An accordian book that would stretch to over a hundred feet if fully extended... How can that ... read more
Haussmann eat your heart out... these elegant watercolours and ink drawings are a boulevardier's delight. Accompanied by a text by a French ironmaster.
This is the catalogue (in English) of the exhibition at the Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris, presenting an account of the life and work of the influential woman who was the daughter of Berthe ... read more