Paris: Art of the Nightlife Then And Now
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View ArticleParis: Art of the Nightlife Then And Now
”What a number of sins does the cheerful, easy good-breeding of the French frequently cover? Many of them want common sense, many more common learning; but in general, they make up so much by their...
View ArticleMACARONI CLUB
Dashing and dandy and chasing the candy. In Paris and Rome the young aristocrats of the eighteenth century quickly sought out, and made rich those teachers those teachers who specialized in adding...
View ArticleHEALING WATERS & BUBBLING PASSIONS
There is,and always has been, an especial magic attached to the idea of healing springs. In antiquity they were believed to be the abode of nymphs, or sometimes of a god; in the Middle Ages,a saint was...
View ArticleSELF RESTRAINT TO SELF INDULGENCE
”If Horace Walpole was right—that the world is a comedy to those who think and a tragedy to those who feel—the English were the most thoughtful people in the world. They were polite and considerate,...
View Articlewake up and smell the coffee
Make sure the coffee is ready, hot and with extra brewing. Its not known if Voltaire preferred cream and sugar or straight up black, however it has been documented that the philosopher and part-time...
View Articlelondon calling : crumb’s boswell journal
Adult sexual obsession. A madness that is disquietingly normal. The madness of the ordinary.The kind of torment that completes itself in sexual obsession. There is something uncanny in Robert Crumb’s...
View Articleliberation: french identity on the short leash
The liberation of Mme de Tencin. From convent to court, from bank to boudoir, she was always prone to argue. It was the end of the Louis XIV reign, a hey-day of cynical license that characterized the...
View Articletencin: high wire act between rationalism and passion
“My menagerie,” Alexandrine Tencin called her salon; her guests were “mes betes.” Her Tuesdays she filled with good talk, high spirits, and low comedy involving chamber pots and such. Her leisure she...
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