Dreamers Rise

Eleanor Clark, on the Oysterman's Cooperative building in Brittany, where "there is just about everything there you could ever need...

Four years ago I posted the above image, dated 1887, of a young French woman named Alexandra Marie Fulton de Lipowski. Thanks to a message ...

Ruth Otis Sawtell & Ida Treat: Our greatest adventure we found at Mérigon. Mérigon, with its face to the sunny roadside and its back to ...

There are two detailed primary sources, as well as a number of supporting documents, on the prosecution of Ernest de Lipowski (see previou...

Here's as much as I've been able to piece together of the story of Ernest de Lipowski, the father of the young girl whose 1887 photo...

Luc Sante: The game may not be over, but its rules have irrevocably changed. The small has been consumed by the big, the poor have been ev...

Luc Sante: The occult forces in the city are always at work, indifferent to rationality, scornful of politics, resentful of urban planning...

Note: This post has been updated (September 2019) based on new information from the family. See new post for a photo of Alexandra's s...

Demain, dès l’aube, à l’heure où blanchit la campagne, Je partirai. Vois-tu, je sais que tu m’attends. J’irai par la forêt, j’irai par la ...

Rabelais: Bacbuc threw something into the fountain, and suddenly the water began to boil fiercely, as the great cauldron at Bourgueil does w...

'So you come from Paris,' said Pantagruel. 'And how do you spend your time, you gentlemen students at this same Paris?' ...

Via R.B.

This 1913 novel by Roger Martin du Gard may come across today as a somewhat curious project, a book that is not only a "novel of idea...

Today is the 99th anniversary of the assassination of Jean Jaurès, the French socialist leader and parliamentarian who had struggled, vali...

It's February 1848, and Frédéric Moreau, the idle young hero of Flaubert's Sentimental Education , paces up and down the sidewalk,...

Coincidence or fate put an advance copy of Jean Echenoz's fine, slender novel about French soldiers in the Great War into my hands jus...

It is springtime in Paris, 1918. The youngest of the Thibaults, Jacques, has been dead since the beginning of the war; his older brother, A...

Sometime in the 19th century (an Emperor is on the throne of France), a Parisian woman named Anne relocates to a tiny village in the country...