The name Marcel Hennequet may be largely forgotten in Paris today, but it is engraved into some of the most imaginative interwar buildi...

No other part of Paris has undergone such a radical transformation as the 13th arrondissement in the last 50 years, and nowhere is this mo...

Although officially the richest town in France*, Neuilly-sur-Seine is built within a landscape of ruins. In search of these vestiges of de...

A building transformed into a giant paint pot might seem surprising, but it is only one of several curiosities on the quixotic Quai d...

One of the first posts I wrote on this blog back in 2008 was about a mysterious bricked-up passageway in the 9th arrondissement. Thanks ...