We have a new mayor in Paris (a woman named Anne Hidalgo) and a new Prime Minister in France (Manuel Valls who, like Hidalgo, has Spanish roots), but all I can think about is that we lost today one of our greatest medievalists, Jacque Le Goff.

He wrote so many ground breaking books about Middle Ages. Among them, there is La Naissance du Purgatoire ( Read more... )

Larmes d' Albâtre (Albaster Tears) is an exhibition that just started at Le Musée de Cluny, on the occasion of the return of Les Pleurants (The Mourners) in France after a long world tour. They aren't home yet but Paris is their last stop, after Bruges, and before going back to Dijon.


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LJ ate my post!

I've been writing a review on the two last episodes of Lost for an hour, and everything is gone! I'm so frustrated and angry right now it's not even funny.

I digressed a lot and was in the middle of interpretating Lost through the Ultraist doctrine, in which the art of metaphor rules, and drawing parallels with Borges' works that are ( Read more... )