Dr Tony Shaw

The cadran solaire de Dali (or Dali sundial) at 27 rue Saint-Jacques is a gift of Dali's to Paris. It represents the form of a coqui...

The magnificent art nouveau door at 29 avenue Rapp, dating from 1901 and by Jules Lavirotte (1864–1929). The door represents a design of...

43 bis rue du Bac, where  Élisa Mercœur died . 'ICI HABITAIT ET MOURUT EN 1833 À 25 ANS la Poètesse Nantaise ÉLISA MERCŒUR H...

58 bis rue d'Assas. 'À Louis MANDIN Poète de "l'Aurore du Soir" ET À MARIE-LOUISE MANDIN sa Femme ARRÊTÉS PAR ...

64 boulevard Saint-Michel, Paris. 'EN CETTE MAISON DE 1872 À SA MORT HABITA LE POÈTE LECONTE DE LISLE NÉ À RÉUNION 1818 – 1894 Ô...

Much French literature has been written about World War One and World War Two, but very little about the Algerian War (1954–62). Lauren...

60-62 rue d'Assas. 'En cet immeuble, alors hôtel Orfila, l'écrivain suédois August STRINDBERG (1849 – 1912) a vécu en f...

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt's play La Tectonique des sentiments is a homage to a section in Diderot's Jacques le Fataliste , which had...

The tomb of Marie d'Agoult (1805–76), who also wrote under the pseudonym Daniel Stern (as recognised here). Agoult is noted for her...

As the title of Frédéric Beigbeder's book Un roman français says – in fact twice, as the subtitle is ' roman ' – this is a...

'CHARLES NODIER MEMBRE DE L'ACADÉMIE FRANÇAISE ET DE LA LÉGION D'HONNEUR BIBLIOTHÉCAIRE DE L'ARSE...

  I found it slightly odd that so many tributes had been left on the grave of Nadar (1820–1910), especially as this is a very obscur...

  'SÉPULTURE DU PRINCE DE VALACHIE GEORGES D. BIBESCO ET DE LA PRINCESSE BIBESCO'   Poet and novelist of Romanian ex...

  'ICI REPOSE JEAN-FRANÇOIS CHAMPOLLION NÉ À FIGEAC DEPT. DU LOT LE 23 DÉCEMBRE 1790 DÉCÉDÉ À PARIS LE 4 MARS 1832...

  'L'AMOUR POUR PRINCIPE ET L'ORDRE POUR BASE LE PROGRÈS POUR BUT AUGUSTE COMTE ET SES TROIS ANGES'   ...

    The tomb of the Belgian symbolist poet and novelist Georges Rodenbach (1855–98), one of the most striking in Père-Lachaise. ...

    'RAYMOND ROUSSEL 1877 – 1933'   Raymond Roussel's novels and plays were unsuccessful in his lifetime an...

This is not so much a novel as an experience you'll never forget. Jean-Pierre Martinet's  Jérôme (L'Enfance de Jérôme Bauche...

Since I was last here in 2011 Oscar Wilde's monument has been scrubbed clean of all the lipstick, loving comments and a few insults....

  The most noted novel by Henri Barbusse (1873-1935) is the autobiographical Le Feu (1916), for which he won the Prix Goncourt, whi...

A few reviews have remarked that Alain Mabanckou's Mémoires de porc-épic – translated as Memoirs of a Porcupine , although I prefer ...

There is no indication in the first paragraph of Pierre Loti's Pêcheur d'Islande (translated as An Iceland Fisherman) that the o...

'OSCAR VLADISLAS DE L. MILOSZ (1877–1939) Ecrivain Français, poète, diplomate, Lituanien. amis des oiseaux, fit de longs séjo...