The Quai de Montebello, on the Left Bank of the Seine is today considered a great place for a walk in the capital, offering an unrestricted view of Notre-Dame Cathedral and its magnificent chevet. “The elegant Pont au Double, in…
Paris Under Occupation… In May and June 1940 almost four million people fled Paris and its suburbs in anticipation of a German invasion. On 14th June , the German Army tentatively entered the silent and eerily empty French capital. Without…
“JANKERS JOHNSTON” A ballad overheard in the Penal Colonies of the Asteroid Belt They made a grave of Ireland, they did it with a smile, With pox and gas and worse besides, singing all the while, They made us fight…
From Cutty Glyph’s “Underneath Soho” column in the London Yellow, issue dated Saturday, October 3rd, 1959. Summer’s gone, then, is it? No particular impression lingers. Shadows accumulate as ever in Dean Street. Bonar Colleano is still dead, but I have…
• The 1848 Revolution in France, sometimes known as the February Revolution (révolution de Février), was one of a wave of revolutions in 1848 in Europe. In France the revolutionary events ended the Orleans monarchy (1830–48) and led to the creation of the French Second Republic. • The Paris Commune (known in French as La…