Dr Tony Shaw

Anyone reading my blog will be aware of how much I detest tourism, but occasionally you just have to ignore the tourists and do your th...

Well, it's been seven years since I last saw Le Lapin Agile, and I'm pleased to see that there's now an ' Histoi...

'Ici a vécu Alfred ADAM 1908 – 1982 Comédien Auteur Dramitique' Alfred Adam appeared in many feature films and many ...

Jacques Rigaut (1898–29) was a Dadaist writer and was a friend of Drieu la Rochelle, who made him the protagonist of three of his book...

'ICI VIVAIT, ICI MOURUT LE POÈTE GUILLEVIC 1907 – 1997 GRANDE PRIX DE LA POÉSIE DE L'ACADÉMIE FRANÇAISE " nou...

'ICI NAQUIT CHARLES VILDRAC POÈTE ET DRAMATURGE 1882 – 1971' 22 rue Bertholet. I've mentioned Vildrac before o...

'DANS CET IMMEUBLE A VÉCU DE 1969 À 1974 AMORIM DE CARVALHO POÈTE ET PHILOSOPHE PORTUGAIS MORT À PARIS LE 15 AVRIL 1976...

'DANS CETTE MAISON VÉCUT PAUL VALÉRY 1891 – 1899' 12 rue Gay Lussac.

The pronunciation 'sarah' is sandwiched between ' conte ', or story. And this is some story, one which Minuit chose alone...

The title Trois jours chez ma tante recalls the Goncourt-winning Trois jours chez ma mère by François Weyergans, although here things a...

Bernard Tonacci is quite a man, or bloke, or chap, or guy, or mec or any other expression you care to use for a member of the human ...

Ah, France's love of America! It's evident from the number of books translated into French, the number of Americans invited onto ...

Les Années cerises  (lit. 'The Cherry Years') concerns an eleven-year-old boy and his desires, his hopes and his fears. Rather l...

José Bruyl (1889–1980) was a Francophone Belgian poet who was one of the founder members of L'Académie Charles-Cros. He was also a me...

Jacques Fesch (1930–57) was condemned to death for theft while carrying a firearm in 1954, followed by the death of a policeman. Wh...

Jacques Tati (1907–82) was born Jacques Tatischeff of French-Russian-Dutch-Italian origin. His family grave is in Saint-Germain-en-Lay...

Above is La Veuve ('The Widow'), a sculpture by Pierre Albert-Birot (1876–1967) in Issy-les-Moulineaux cemetery. Albert-Bi...

'INFIRMERIE MARIE THÉRÊSE FONDÉE EN 1819 PAR MME DE CHATEAUBRIAND QUI REPOSE DANS LA CHAPELLE ----------------- CHATEAUBRI...

I don't know why I've not included this before. The original  moulin de la charité was constructed in 1661 and made flour. There...

'Jean ROM ÊAS dit Jean-Pierre ROSNAY Po ète résistant 1926  – 2009' Rosnay's Wikipédia entry states that it...

As I've already mentioned the great sculptor  Ossip Zadine (1890–1967) before when a made a fairly extensive post on his museuam i...

'Garder le calme !!! Devant la DISSOCANCE !!! Claude SAUTET 1924 – 2000 Graziella SAUTET 1922 – 2003' The above qu...

'A l'écrivain sans sépulture A la mémoire de mon mari bien-aimé OÏSER WARSZAWSKI homme de lettres juif assassiné â Aus...

Adolphe Joanne (1813–81) gave up the legal profession for literature. He worked for a number of papers and, as an Anglophile with a great...

'MOUNIR HAFEZ 1911–1993 POÊTE PHILOSOPHE' Mounir Hafez  is of Egyptian royal origin and moved to France in 1952 with t...

Denis Dussoubs (1818–51), a republican martyr, was killed in cold blood by soldiers of the future Napoleon III before the barricade in ru...

Jean Fougère (1914–2005) was a novelist, short story writer and non-fiction writer. His writing ias noted for its humour, its psycholo...

Olympe de Gouges (1748–93), who was beheaded, was one of the pioneers of feminsism in France. Her Déclaration des droits de la femme et d...