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Exploring the Library’s Photography Books – Shelf Talk
Exploring the Library’s Photography Books February 2, 2026 I love reading photography books. Flipping through their pages brings a much-needed sense of creativity and inspiration, while also providing a window into history, community, connection, and the world around us. Here are some that I have enjoyed recently: Pilgrimage Annie Leibovitz travels to locations that hold…
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When Picasso Saved Matisse’s Paintings From the Nazis – Literary Hub
When Picasso Saved Matisse’s Paintings From the Nazis Christopher C. Gorham on Art Theft and Artistic Solidarity in Occupied France By Christopher C. Gorham, September 29, 2025 After subduing Paris in the summer of 1940, Adolf Hitler launched “a second blitzkrieg,” in the words of scholar Frederic Spotts, “with the intention of making Germany as supreme culturally…
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“He’s played Trump like a violin” | Ex-MI6 boss on the US, Putin, Russia and Iran – YouTube
… USA #US #WhiteHouse #UK #France #KeirStarmer #Defence #Politics #politicalnews #latestnews #newsnight Website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsnight X …… USA #US #WhiteHouse #UK #France #KeirStarmer #Defence #Politics #politicalnews #latestnews #newsnight Website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsnight X … Read More Google Alert – U.S. Politics
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Nearly 300 scientists apply for French academic program amid Trump cuts in U.S. – (OPB) Oregon Public Broadcasting
Source Links: Nearly 300 scientists apply for French academic program amid Trump cuts in U.S.
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Capturing the ‘grandeur and beauty’ of Notre Dame during its reconstruction
Capturing the ‘grandeur and beauty’ of Notre Dame during its reconstruction| Photographs by Tomas van Houtryve/VII Story by Tristen Rouse, CNN Published December 8, 2024 When Tomas van Houtryve walked into Paris’ Notre Dame Cathedral four years ago, he was wearing a hazmat suit and looking through a massive hole in its ceiling.At first you…
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Finding Healing at Paris’s Shakespeare and Company ‹ Literary Hub
Natasha Sizlo on Realizing She Needed to Write By Natasha Sizlo, August 19, 2022 Shakespeare and Company’s green-and-yellow facade and weather-beaten sidewalk book bins telegraphed old-world charm. Inside, thousands of books both new and used lined the shelves that stretched from floor to ceiling. More books were heaped on tables crammed into corners. I’d never seen so…
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Where do French people travel in France? Cote d’Azur Burgundy Brittany | CNBC Travel
By Monica Buchanan Pitrelli @MonicaPitrelli, Published Fri, Jul 1 20221:59 AM EDT International travelers may prioritize visits to the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre when they visit France. But French residents have other ideas. Border restrictions during the pandemic largely gave locals the chance to explore their country without foreign tourists, which in 2019 numbered…
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PRIOR – Our Favorite Luxury Hotels in Paris
From the sparkling palaces to the broodingly sensual these opulent hotels always deliver decadence. By PRIOR Team, January 27, 2022 More than in any other city in the world, opulent hotels in Paris are part of the culture and indeed identity of the place. They are the distillation of a singular type of decadence and…
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Miss art museums? The Louvre just put its entire art collection online – CNN Style
Credit: Stephane Cardinale/Corbis/Getty Images Published 27th March 2021 There is nothing like spending a rainy afternoon at a museum, soaking in the beauty and wonder of art and history. Now the Louvre, the world’s most visited museum, is letting you do that right from home. Source: Miss art museums? The Louvre just put its entire…
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Shakespeare and Company Project
Recreating the world of the Lost Generation in interwar Paris Gertrude Stein. James Joyce. Ernest Hemingway. Aimé Césaire. Simone de Beauvoir. Jacques Lacan. Walter Benjamin. All these writers were members of the Shakespeare and Company lending library. In 1919, an American named Sylvia Beach opened Shakespeare and Company, an English-language bookshop and lending library in…
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Writers in Paris
In the years after the First World War, a number of American writers took up residence in Paris. Steve Cleary assesses some of the work that came out of their time abroad. … The 1920s was the golden age of literary modernism, and Paris was then the literary and artistic capital of the western world.…
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A Guide to Hemingway’s Paris | Travel | Smithsonian
From writing haunts to favorite bars, follow the ex-pat author’s steps through Paris Source: A Guide to Hemingway’s Paris | Travel | Smithsonian
