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Fourier's Fourth Apple

A giant silver apple a day keeps the perils of capitalism away.
Chemist and physicist Marie Curie works in the lab with her husband Pierre in 1896. Curie would go on to win two Nobel prizes for her groundbreaking research on radioactivity.
radioactive

Marie Curie As You’ve Never Met Her Before

The world’s first two-time Nobel Laureate was a nerd’s nerd who broke the law for knowledge.
Sarah Durn April 20, 2023
A rendering of the Palais Garnier shows what the opera house will look like when it's ensconced in a grove.
trees

Why the City of Light Is About to Get a Lot Greener

Paris’s ambitious “urban forest” plan includes tree-planting near iconic landmarks.
Evan Nicole Brown July 11, 2019
The trio of hives, on the bottom left, as they appeared in 2016.
fires

Notre Dame’s Bees Seem to Have Survived the Blaze

A little bit of sweet news.
Jessica Leigh Hester April 19, 2019
Chevilly-Larue, France

Rungis International Market

Walk through spectacular aisles of hanging meat and wagon wheel–sized cheese at the world's largest wholesale food market.
Permanently Closed
Pep's shop in Passage de l'Ancre, de St-Martin
Paris, France

Pep's Maison

One of the last umbrella repair shops in Paris upholds the nostalgic art of umbrella making.
Inside the atelier.
Saint-Denis, France

Art Workshop of the Réunion des Musées Nationaux

This hidden workshop is filled with molds of France's most iconic sculptures.
Experts confirmed that <em>Hill of Montmartre with Stone Quarry</em> (1886) was sketched by Vincent van Gogh.
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Found: Two New Drawings by Vincent van Gogh

Sketches of Montmartre by the elusive Dutch Postimpressionist.
Vittoria Traverso January 16, 2018