londonienne
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l'important
© Annie Phillips
Closed even for Mars Bars
Il faut que nous partions avant les JO! We leave you with parks and peacocks.
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memory
© Princeton University
Swordsman, tranny, soldier, spy
Charles-Geneviève-Louis-Auguste-André-Timothée d’Eon de Beaumont (1728 – 1810) led a life that, two centuries later, still seems unbelievable. Author, master swordsman, diplomat and secret agent, he earned one of his century’s rarest distinctions: l’Ordre Royal et Militaire de Saint-Louis. His life in Russia, Paris and London was also distinguished by the fact that he spent 49 years of it as a man, then 3...
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cult
© Hélène Liancourt
Bon jubilé, M'am!
Je pense que la reine Elizabeth semble en forme en ce moment vu ses photos récentes, bien mieux qu’ il y a quelques années. Elle à l’air belle, un peu comme la reine Mary, sa grand-mère, mais en plus souriante. La monarchie c’est bon pour les touristes, c’est agréable car ça rapporte beaucoup d’argent mais autrement c’est totalement inutile. Les gens peuvent rêver alors c’est pas...
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So close
“Fresh from defeat (...) Livingstone hailed the results of last week’s local elections in which Labour won more than 800 seats – as well as four additional seats on the London assembly – saying they showed that the party was now in a strong position.
“The lesson is that we are getting the economic strategy right,” he told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme. “For the last two years people have b...
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memory
© Sweet Memories of Arundel
Ils nous vendent leurs salades...sucrées?
Aujourd’hui, il faut qu’on parle d’une nouvelle entente cordiale grâce à la réception anglaise qui est maintenant accordée au chèvre – au plus exactement, au chèvre chaud. Étant donné que nous, les rosbifs, n’avons jamais été doués pour les salades et que nous avons déjà passé plusieurs siècles en gaspillant un grand patrimoine de légumes verts, a réussite anglaise de cette chose est d...
parisienne
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Le temps est arrivé
If you can’t leave, there’s always Paris Plage. Alors, bonnes vacances à tous!
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expo
© Chateau de Versailles
Missing la pointure?
The art of spectacle is hardly new at Versailles. But, since 2008, the Château has augmented its laser displays and re-enactment “balls” with art interventions. Jeff Koons imported balloon dogs and sex toys, Takashi Murakami contributed cartoony sculpture. Now the first female invitée, Joanna Vasconcelos, has planted giant stilettos made from saucepans.
Copied from a pair owned by Marilyn Monroe, these heels ar...
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colour
© Steve Sampson
Pixels or petals
With the first hint of spring, the number of visitors skyrockets. Each arrives armed with GPS, tri-band phones and the constant need to comment. Instagram, Facebook, textos and Twitter are the modern parallel of building plaques that resume a life or a death with Ici Veçut or Ici est tombé. The wave of abbreviating strangers arrives after weeks of rain but just as fresh fruit and flowers pour into markets and shops.
At th...
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La vraie victoire
“Vous êtes bien plus qu’un peuple qui veut changer, vous êtes déjà un mouvement qui se lève partout en Europe et peut-être dans le monde pour porter nos valeurs, nos aspirations et nos exigences de changement. Merci, merci, merci!”
“…Soyez heureux, soyez fiers, soyez généreux, soyez respectueux (...) soyez fiers d’être des citoyens français”. L’allocution a été courte. ...
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cult
© Jean-Paul Goude
Hello sailor...
A new Galeries Lafayette poster just appeared, created as usual by the store’s graphiste Jean Paul Goude. It features the aging bad boy Jean-Paul Gaultier, turning his naked chest into a marinière with paint. This is a joke with so many levels that to fully decode it would require a semiotics professor.
The blue-and-white marinière is a French stereotype. Part of the county’s naval uniform since the nineteent...