On starless nights the inhabitants of Paris would cower in fear as the giant I. M. Pei would come to select another innocent to imprison in his pyramid of despair.

I actually quite like Mark Rutte.

"Peoples pass, thrones crumble — the Church remains." — Napoleon, Emperor of the French R.I.P.

Make Picnics French Again.

“What is civilisation? I don’t know. I can’t define it in abstract terms, yet. But I think I can recognise it when I see it. And I’m looking at it now.” — Kenneth Clark

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1660 New Amsterdam Map on top of modern New York.

Reception for Queen Elisabeth II at Itamaraty Palace in Brasília, Brazil (1968)

You would not get a mortgage on this house on an MP's basic salary, not even close. Even a government minister would struggle. But a century ago it was a family home for a lower middle-class City salaryman and his three children.

#14juillet #fetenationale #july14 #BastilleDay

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👇 I agree with everything this guy writes. ☘️

I've loved this painting for ages and one day I was wandering through a museum in Transylvania and stumbled across it all of a sudden. It was like being surprised to run into an old friend who lives somewhere you didn't realise.

There is so much to read.

Great Britain and Québec are the only legitimate French states in existence.

Andrew Cusack Jersey and Guernsey too.

There are not many landscape architects whose death provokes an official day of national mourning. Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles was no ordinary man: andrewcusack.substack.com/p/a-magnificen…

The heads of the Christian churches of Jerusalem, including the Latin and Greek patriarchs, visited Taybeh yesterday. The West Bank's last Christian town has suffered from the violent attacks of radical Israeli settlers in recent weeks.