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To augment your intelligence, you need to be stimulated, indeed shocked. Your brain needs to receive a burst of energy that makes it cogitat...

In Paris, air pollution is 60 times more deadly than road accidents. Every year, 2,500 Parisians die through having been exposed to atmosphe...

Tomorrow (Sunday), more than 100,000 spectators are expected to attend the inaugural Paris Drone Festival on the Champs-Elysées. photo...

During the two decades of my life in Paris, I can recall no alarming case of flooding of any kind. But many people believe that a gigantic f...

Crowds gathered early at the Place de la République to commemorate the recent victims of barbary in the City of Light. As the sun we...

This short video presents the singer Louane and the trumpetist Ibrahim Maalouf,  who have recorded a powerful memorial song entitled On...

For centuries, an old-fashioned bank in Paris, the Crédit municipal , has enabled ordinary citizens to deposit valuable stuff such as jewel...

I’m always amused and impressed by the surprising artistic creations of talented individuals, even when they’re relatively trivial.

For English and Australian visitors to Paris, driving has always been been a somewhat disturbing experience, because the French drive on th...

Fox News has a “specialist” named Nolan Peterson (a former GI) who informed the world, last week, that there are so-called No-Go Zones i...

Exactly 70 years ago, on 25 August 1944, General Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque arrived in Paris at the head of tanks of his celebrated a...

On 29 May 2014 (a week before the gigantic D-Day commemorations in Normandy), the Luxembourg artist Deborah de Robertis created a sensation...

It’s weird to be googling around casually on the off-chance of finding out what might have happened to an old friend, and to run into an obi...

This fascinating photo shows a throng of pious women (?) in God-only-knows what land. The rounded forms and pleasantly harmonious h...

Like countless people throughout the world, I remember distinctly the moment when I learned that John F Kennedy had been assassinated. ...

People tend to think that France is a modern nation (well, some people, at least) and that Paris is a great city in constant evolution. I m...

For most of my time in Paris, I lived in a second-floor apartment at 23 rue Rambuteau, between the Centre Pompidou and the Marais quarter. A...

Two years ago, in a blog post entitled A rose by any other name [ display ], I mentioned the great French comic Michel Colucci [1944-1986]...

If this story had emerged in the press next Monday, I would have concluded immediately that it's an April Fool's Day tale. We learne...

When I first arrived in Paris, I didn't know enough French to take advantage of an excellent newspaper such as Le Monde . So, I contente...