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The Borrowed Gun: Sports Shooting in France
Please don’t think that I’m looking to enter the fray of the hot-button topic of gun control in the United States when I tell you that I miss my shotguns now that I’m in Paris. I’ve been out shooting...
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This is a linden
The linden, le tilleul, has for centuries been a favored tree of European cityscapes, most famously along Berlin’s Under der Linden, which leads from the Brandenburg Gate. Schoolyards throughout France...
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There’s a special atmosphere to the gardens and parks of Paris in winter, before the leaves appear on the trees and block the view. Brandon Eckhoff has captured that atmosphere though a series of...
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Ballooning over Paris from Parc André Citroën
Paris is a street-level city that doesn’t call for grand views over, say, 250 feet. Still, seeing a city from up high is always a treat, especially with there’s little wait—and no steps to climb. The...
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Statue of Liberty Given Place of Honor in the Orsay Museum
July 2012 – Joining Whistler’s Mother, Van Gogh’s Self-portrait, Degas’s ballerinas, and many more, the Musée d’Orsay took on another familiar face this month when Liberty was given place of honor on a...
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Celebrating Le Nôtre: An American Photographer Explores the Tuileries Garden
This year France celebrates the 400th anniversary of the birth of André Le Nôtre (1613-1700), the father of French gardens, with events taking place in many of the gardens that he developed or created:...
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Yours, Mine, Le Nôtre’s: An American Photographer Examines the Garden of...
As France celebrates the 400th anniversary of the birth of André Le Nôtre, the father of French gardens, France Revisited explores some of this 17th-century landscape gardener’s most famous gardens and...
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Vice & Versailles: A Master Gardener Delves Into the Dark Shadows of the...
As head gardener of Versailles Alain Baraton is responsible for restoring and maintaining the majesty of the backyard of kings, but he appears to relish in declaring that “Versailles was a great shop...
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The Coulée Verte: A Green and Gentle Promenade in Eastern Paris
Sixteen years before New York’s instantly celebrated High Line opened on the city’s west side, Paris inaugurated its own planted promenade, a strip of green cutting east-west through the 12th...
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A Year Ends, A Year Begins in a Hopeful Little Paris Garden
The year 2015 ends on a bright and hopeful day in Paris. I’m relieved to feel no compulsion to come up with resolutions for 2016; I can simply reuse those of 2015 since none of them was realized....
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