The Jardin des Grands Explorateurs creates a perspective towards the Luxembourg Palace. At its entrance is one of the most beautiful fountains in Paris, the fountain of the four parts of the world. If we examine it closely, we can see that the sculptor Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux hid a message about slavery in it.
The royal squares are a creation of the 17th century. To gauge how new this is, just look for what might look like a place on this map of Paris that dates back to...
Between the Cours de Vincennes and the Place de la Nation stand two columns, the function of which is not particularly obvious. In fact, it is a vestige of the enclosure of the “Fermiers...
The exterior of this church is quite simple, almost banal, but it is only an envelope of stones. The whole structure of the church is metallic, and it appears completely inside.
More than 50 covered passages were built in Paris, mostly between 1820 and 1848. It is a Parisian invention that the whole of Europe then adopted. Today, around 20 are still open and still...
The triumphal arch on the Place de l’Etoile, at the top of the Champs-Elysées, is world famous. But this monument from the Antiquity (the Romans having planted some everywhere) is in fact much more...
