Did you know? This historic convent in Saint-Denis is home to a museum dedicated to art and history.

While the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire Paul Éluard in Saint-Denis has become a key cultural landmark in the city, its setting is ...
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Here’s What Bothers Me About How ‘Paris in Ruins’ Rewrites Impressionist History

Sebastian Smee’s Paris in Ruins is an addictively good read, weaving as it does the lives of several important Impressionist painters into the traumatic and bloody events of 1870-71 in France: the ...

Did you know? A fire had devastated the City Hall—here's what it looked like before the blaze.

On May 24, 1871, right in the heart of Paris, the City Hall was destroyed by a fire set during the Paris Commune. Before it ...