Category: Paris
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Exploring Balloonomania: Paris’s 18th Century Craze
I was lucky enough to spend lots of time in Paris last year, and fell in love with the Musee Carnavalet. There were lots of insta influencers taking photos in the garden there, just as I imagine there would have been when Balloonomania hit Paris in 1783, when the Montgolfier brothers first took to the…
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A garden girl in Paris…
(with apologies to John Denver) Three nights in Paris, bucket loads of rain, cafes, people watching, a bit of shopping, cake eating and champagne drinking too. But also galleries. Lots of them, and I got interested in the gardens attached. How artists, even in the middle of a city, need space. Here are three of them……