Dr Tony Shaw

I was hardly expecting to see this, a printing press outside the town hall in Bièvres, but here it is, an example of the Stanhope Pres...

The Château des Roches, or Maison littéraire de Victor Hugo as it is now better known in Vauboyen, Bièvres, was the property of Louis-F...

'Jean-Jacques ROUSSEAU Habitant de Montmorency 1756–1762' The avenue Émile roundabout, Montmorency. This is the third stat...

Just off boulevard Beaumarchais, not very far from the Place de la Bastille, is rue Clotilde de Vaux with a bust of the poet who fired Au...

In autumn 1906 a literary and artistic group moved into 37–39 rue du Moulin in Créteil, Val de Marne and christened it 'l'Abbaye...

Laurent Mauvignier's Apprendre à finir ('Learning to Finish') is painful to read, partly because it's about pain, the...

Philippe Le Guillou's Le Déjeuner des bords de Loire begins ' Longtemps je l'ai rêvé lointain... ' and we know from the ...

Les Hommes en général me plaisent beaucoup (literally 'In general I Really Like Men') is a strange, rather uninviting name for ...

'ÉMILE DURKHEIM 1858 – 1917'   And there is a particular note of finality to my blog posts on Montparnasse here, with t...

The grave of Carlos Fuentes (1928–2012), who died in Mexico, but the date of whose death still wasn't inscribed on his tombstone t...

This may not be one of the most visited graves per se , but it must, after Serge Gainsbourg's, be the most enthusiastically visi...

  This time I found Charles Baudelaire's grave and don't know why I missed it the first time round. And more lipstick stains...