
The Lapin Agile: the killers’ cabaret and the horrible Pantin massacre
Hidden in a corner of the crazy butte of Montmartre there’s a little house with a countryside, wine, laughs, music,…
Hidden in a corner of the crazy butte of Montmartre there’s a little house with a countryside, wine, laughs, music,…
On the crazy hill of Montmartre, there are a lot of places smelling of genius, cheap wine, art, literature, and…
Today, the mome-raths decided to show me a palace outside of Paris. But since their paths are never predictable, they…
The most beautiful English-style park of the Ville Lumière, park Buttes-Chaumont (1 Rue Botzaris, nel XIX arrondissement), hides a dark past. It’s difficult…
In the ancient heart of Paris there’s an incredible time capsule that holds a treasury of stories. Many are made…
Perhaps not everyone knows that in the XIX century, on Montmartre, the craziest hill in Paris, there was a unique…
In the sparkling Paris of the end of the Second Empire (1852-1870), a jew-born actress could flaunt, at just 24…
In the middle of the XIX century, a fatherless child (bad!), daughter of a courtesan (worse!), of jew origins (worst!)…
This is the last of three articles about the life of Victor Hugo. I told you about his unhappy marriage,…
In this series of articles I’m going through the sad events of Victor Hugo’s life, a dark “behind the scenes”…