I know. The Scandal of the Diamond Necklace is quite well know and it's been mentioned in several history books, novels, movies.. Are you sure you know all the history though? In reality, this affair is more complicated that it seems and it destroyed Marie-Antoinette's reputation forever. If you are up for a story full …
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A little review about Musee Carnavalet in Paris
What do French people celebrate on July 14?
"Je suis femme francoise & peintre; j'ai droit a votre confiance, a votre accueil & a celui du public; ma je n'accepte ni le votre, ni le sien; je veux le meriter" Avis important d'une femme sur le Salon de 1785 par Madame E.A.R.T.L.A D.C.S, 1785. On Monday I was supposed to visit the exhibition …
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Today it was a rainy and windy day. The perfect day to stay home - how original right? - and try to fix my overloaded laptop. While doing that I stumbled in a series of images and technical drawings I used some times ago and then completely forgot. I think it is the right time …
"A woman has the right to mount the scaffold. She must possess equally the right to mount the speaker's platform" I know, it's been a while since my last article. I was so frustrated with this lockdown that I was just thinking about quitting my job and changing life. Today I am still a bit …
When talking about Versailles' royal palace, I noticed that many people do not expect it to be so far from the city centre. To be accurate, the Chateau is not even in the outskirts of Paris, being Versailles a nice, indipendent town with about 90000 inhabitans located 14 miles west to the Ville Lumiere. To …
Continue reading Small talks from Versailles: why Versailles is in Versailles?
"The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance; We find delight in the most loathsome things; Some furtherance of Hell each new day brings, And yet we feel no horror in that rank advance" - C. Baudelaire. There is something very true in this Baudelaire's quote and I am not referring just to moral …
Continue reading Hell’s never been so cool – Focus on Rodin’s “The Gates of Hell”
Two of the most frequently asked questions in my Louvre tour are: "What happened to the Louvre during WWII?" and "Why the museum was not pillaged?" The answer is an amazing history that worth to be told and should be transformed into a movie. Ready to discover it? Everything started in 1939, before the war …
Continue reading When the Louvre was evacuated and Mona Lisa went missing
The last time I was in the Louvre one of my guests asked me to surprise him. He had already visited the museum several times so he was looking for something "new". Well, "new" is not really an adjective you often hear in the museum, where the youngest works are about 200 years old and …
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