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During the second part of the 16th century, the Regent of France named Catherine de Medicis at the time, had the Tuileries Palace built on wilderness lands neighbouring the Louvre. Today, from that royal and imperial mansion only gardens remain. In fact, the monument was burnt during the Paris Commune of 1871, a social conflict… Read more »

C’est en 1957 que la comédie musicale West Side Story signée par Léonard Bernstein est jouée pour la première fois dans un théâtre de Broadway. Le succès est au rendez-vous et la pièce qui reprend le thème de Roméo et Juliette transposé dans un quartier populaire de Manhattan reste à l’affiche de près de 1000… Read more »

The Branly quay located along the left side of the Seine’s edge develop through Paris, from the Alma bridge until the Bir-Hakeim bridge. Before the 18th century, the Swans island gathering several islets were linked to the edge with a bridge overhanging a small canal that has been filled in 1780. It was over an… Read more »