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Author: Alice Quillet

Posted on December 31, 2004April 2, 2017

A Towering Love Affair

Winnie Denker is afraid of heights. Yet she has spent the best part of the last 20 years taking pictures of the Eiffel Tower, precariously balancing herself and 60 kilos-worth of large format camera on the tower’s various extremities. Continue reading “A Towering Love Affair”

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    A scintillating tale of derring-do set in France’s distant colonial past, written by, wait for …
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    Imagine waking to the peals of morning church bells in a small French village or …
  • “Paris Primitive” by the Seine
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    Visitors to Paris on returning home will want to remember the city’s monuments, museums, neighborhoods, …

Top stories from past

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    When the last decade of the 20th century witnessed the collapse of communism throughout the …
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    When people learn that I have lived in France a little over two decades, the …
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    Drummer Ted Hawke first set eyes on Paris in 1991. He liked what he saw. …
  • American Artists in France
    Paris is a city for lovers … and artists. American artists are particularly drawn to …

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