An instant in #NotreDame ’s busy life

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So this is what France’s Culture Minister and the very own Institut Curie envisage as a way to « protect » #MarieCurie ’s pavillion…
Yes, being swallowed in a high rise office building. #Hypocrisy !

The residence of the 🇫🇷 ambassador in Washington DC yesterday

via ⁦⁦La Punchline de Yakovleff⁩

The Cannes Film Festival’s poster is revealed!
(Still image from Kurosawa’s Rhapsody in August)
#Cannes2024

In #Venice #Biennale news, Israel’s pavillion won’t open until a ceasefire is agreed. An independent decision from the curators. Italian police is protecting the premises.

Remember #MarieCurie ’s pavillion which was saved from demolition in Paris early January thanks to the mobilization of Parisians? The Institut Curie will simply SWALLOW it in a new building: they will build their new offices on top and side by side.
This beggars belief.

15 April 2019 had been such a beautiful day until the inimaginable struck Paris just 7pm. Here is a few minutes before Notre Dame’s spire collapsed.

Side-eying her eyes: Saint Lucy, painted by Francesco del Cossa of Ferrara. Today is his day.

My evening sorted. Book and wine. And a nice view.

I always try to be positive but what the current #Paris municipality is doing to what used to be one of the world’s most beautiful cities is scandalous. Another example among hundreds, this: the construction of a double lane of café terraces which totally obliterate the

The fabulous Michael Goldfarb aka mgemancipation.bsky.social is on Radio 3 every evening this week, recalling his time as... a New York actor! Listen in:
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

A republican frisson in the streets of London !
#EntenteCordiale120

Long live the Entente Cordiale,
Vive l’amitié franco-britannique !

Entente Cordiale anniversary on Monday…

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The Olympic Aquatics Centre is officially open today. Chapeau to its architects: Laure Meriaud and Cecilia Gross !
I followed them for 18 months for the BBC : bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3c…

La Grande Dame des Lettres mondiales, Maryse Condé, tire sa révérence, nous léguant une œuvre portée par la quête d’un humanisme fondé sur les ramifications de nos identités et les fêlures de l’Histoire. RIP.

**NEW**

20 Questions With Agnes C. Poirier on Paris.

A whistle-stop tour of historical and contemporary Paris, taking in the French Revolution, the French Resistance, the building, burning and rebuilding of Notre Dame, Coco Chanel and the Left Bank.

open.spotify.com/episode/70wRtI…

For 18 months, I followed the two architects who designed France's new aquatics centre for the BBC. Listen here: bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3c…