One hundred years ago, a sprawling international exhibition was staged in Paris. It was intended to dazzle visitors with all that was new in architecture, design, fashion, and jewelry, and to ...
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The Bugatti Autorail, a legendary high-speed train powered by four Bugatti Royale engines, will take center stage at the Paris exhibition from January 28 to February 1, 2026. This showcase marks a ...
THE great moment is when, after an ocean, frontiers, and inexorable Paris landlords, you arrive, disembarrassed of everything, on the inner terrace of the Trocadéro palace. You hold yourself open to ...
The pediment of the Grand Palais, a Beaux-Arts wonder that has become one of Paris’s most iconic structures, makes its ambitions plain: “This Monument was dedicated by the Republic to the Glory of ...
At the Paris Exposition in 1900, representatives from around the world celebrated achievements like railroads and modern factories and touted the “civilizing” rhetoric of colonialism. However, one ...
The story points to Austrian mechanic Erwin Perzy in 1900, but records show snow globes existed by at least 1878.
One could argue that there is no better vantage point for dedicated people-watching than from a rattan bistro chair on the bustling terrace of a Parisian cafe. Maison Louis Drucker, established in ...
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