The Building I Walked Past for Forty Years
For forty years I walked past an anonymous building on Constitution Avenue. Then a side door on C Street opened onto an indoor sun.…
Paris
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Centre Pompidou — A Place I Came to Love
From shocking to beloved — what the Pompidou taught me about a city that evolves.…
A Lifetime of Love for Paris
A lifetime of memories, history, and photography has bound me to Paris in ways that are entirely my own.…
Paris, One Month After the November 2015 Attacks
Moving past the classic postcards, my camera found a different Paris in December 2015. Outside the Bataclan and across the squares, a resilient city was pausing to mourn, remember, and keep moving forward.…
The Arch That Stayed With Me
A brief scene in A Little Romance introduced me to the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel. Nearly fifty years later, that small arch between the Louvre and the Tuileries remains one of my favorite places in Paris.…
A Parisian Museum, a Family’s Tragedy, and the Lessons of History
The Musée Nissim de Camondo is one of Paris's most beautiful house museums. Behind its extraordinary collection of French decorative arts lies a tragic family story that ended in Auschwitz.…
Walking Along the Seine
In 2014, I stumbled across Paris, Paris: Journey into the City of Light. The author, David Downie, is an American who has lived in Paris since 1986. He loves Paris deeply and knows it far better than…