Viva Wikipedia!

The setting looks better than ever, but it's the collection's staggering wealth of artistry and human understanding that I keep coming back for. Whatever the medium, scale or provenance, this is art that shines with personality and life.

A small selection of the breathtaking masterpieces at the wonderful @museecluny.bsky.social, which I've just revisited for the first time since its big overhaul.

The sweet conceit of a scale #model on show in the building it models. The Panthéon has a mini Panthéon, the Invalides a mini Invalides, the Musée d'Orsay two mini Orsays (not on view). This 13,400-piece #Lego mini St-Sulpice was installed last year in the St-Jean l'Evangéliste side chapel. #Paris

Worried about the demise of reading? Come to France, where we’re up to our eyes in print | Alexander Hurst From hefty literary magazines to thriving book sales, the French publishing industry refuses to let printed matter die, says Paris-based writer Alexander Hurst

“Beyond France, where it never fully surrendered, I think we’re going to be surprised at how quickly the printed word will come raging back.”

Heartening piece by @iamhurst.bsky.social in @theguardian.com today; h/t @lecrimedia.bsky.social & @revue21.fr.

Mains nues?

L’Huma is making a historical parallel here – #Chienlit a word that to French readers is strongly associated with another period of political crisis, 1968…

Un régal, merci!

Too many favourites to choose from! Here’s a soulful stanza by Marceline Desbordes-Valmore.

Souvenir affectueux d’une projo de presse au Max Linder vers 2002: une copie restaurée de ‘Kagemusha’. On n’était que quatre dans cette salle immense!

A #ParisBook for #InternationalWomensDay: ‘Women of the Left Bank’, by Shari Benstock (Virago, 1987)

#WorldBookDay

“He died old and impoverished in a retirement home outside Paris, his long white beard having caught fire on a candle.”

It could be one of Fénéon’s ‘Nouvelles en trois lignes’.

Heartbreaking biographical entry for Emile Cohl in the ‘Dictionnaire des illustrateurs 1800-1914’ (Ides et Calendes, 1989): “Il mourut vieux et misérable dans une maison de retraite des environs de Paris, sa longue barbe blanche ayant pris feu à une bougie.”

As for ‘A Rebours’ – I started it in the Folio edition, but only read the whole thing, years later, in an Imprimerie Nationale copy I picked up for a song at Galigniani. Was delighted to discover, on p200-odd, that said bookshop was where Des Esseintes bought his Baedeker!

Yes indeed. And I’m impressed that any non-academic UK publisher would bring out a book on Huysmans in the 2020s. Chapeau, @reaktionbooks.bsky.social.

“La bêtise n’est pas mon fort” – one of French lit’s great opening lines!

Looking forward to reading ‘Impossible City: #Paris in the Twenty-First Century’, latest from @simonkuper.bsky.social, now out in paperback from @profilebooks.bsky.social.

(That Indy puff on the cover, though… *former* City of Light? Ouch!)

Slava Ukraini - Wikipedia

Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦

Great piece! And nice to see mention of Robert Baldick, translator of 'A Rebours' and also author of an earlier life of Huysmans (OUP, 1955).

Rendez-vous le 19 mars pour notre grande exposition « Paris noir » ! 🎉
L' #ExpoParisNoir retrace la présence et l’influence des artistes noirs en France depuis 1950. Elle met en lumière 150 artistes dont les œuvres n’ont souvent jamais été montrées en France.
En savoir plus 👉 bit.ly/Expo_ParisNoir

Come, friendly rock, and fall on [INSERT NAME HERE]

“Être parisien, ce n'est pas être né à Paris, c'est y renaître.” (Sacha Guitry)
Et c’est mon cas. ♥️

Friends,

May we never forget that while negotiations,statements, addresses and the rest of the (undoubtedly important) diplomacy track are happening,exhausted #Ukrainian men &women in military uniform are holding back evil on the frontlines.

Without them,there would be no diplomacy track at all.

Would that be the association 9ème Histoire?

RATP | Serge le Lapin On vous dit tout sur Serge le Lapin, mascotte de la prévention depuis 48 ans !

Bon anniversaire, #Serge le #Lapin!

Paris nomme une avenue Alexeï-Navalny à proximité de l’ambassade de Russie A la veille du premier anniversaire de la mort du plus célèbre opposant au Kremlin de Vladimir Poutine le 16 février 2024, le Conseil de Paris a voté pour qu’une partie de l’avenue de Pologne, dans le 16ᵉ arrondissement, porte son nom.

Paris nomme une avenue Alexeï-Navalny à proximité de l’ambassade de Russie

#Paris, #manège, April 2003.

www.paris.fr/pages/les-beaux-maneges-parisiens-c-est-parti-pour-un-tour-24393

#Paris, #Métro #Bastille, April 2003.

Il vous reste un mois pour découvrir la collection permanente aux niveaux 4 et 5 ! ⏰
Le Musée fermera le 10 mars pour préparer sa rénovation. Pendant cette période, la collection sera accueillie par de grandes institutions à Paris, en France et à l’international. Plus d’infos 👉 bit.ly/CP_Musee