Paris Update Press Review

This Week's Good Reads about Paris and France

June 22, 2022 | By Heidi Ellison | What's New Potpourri

FRENCH ELECTION RESULTS What does it all mean? A look at the results of Sunday’s parliamentary elections on June 19. (Euronews) NEXT STEPS FOR MACRON After losing his parliamentary majority in Sunday’s elections, President Emmanuel Macron has refused the resignation … Read More

Reopening of the Galerie d’Apollon

The Crown (à la Française)

February 5, 2020 | By Heidi Ellison | Museums

The king of France lost his head in 1793, and with him were lost all but one of the crowns that had sat on the heads of his Ancien Régime predecessors. What is left of the crown jewels of France … Read More

Leonardo da Vinci

The Original Renaissance Man

January 15, 2020 | By Heidi Ellison | Exhibitions

If you have not yet bought a ticket for the Leonardo da Vinci show at the Louvre, you will probably miss out on it. If you have, you are in for a treat. Although Leonardo is so familiar to us … Read More