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That novelised version of the famed Paris to Istanbul train was a little run-down, and calamitously, had no restaurant car to ...
Four people were killed in an ''extremely violent'' blaze seemingly caused by a battery-powered electric scooter that tore through a 10-story housing block in Reims, the capital of France's Champagne ...
There is plenty to see in Reims, including the Notre-Dame de Reims Cathedral. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, its current incarnation was built in the 13th century. Notre-Dame de Reims was the former ...
There’s a kind of magic to watching a landscape roll by through a train window—villages, vineyards, and mountains unfolding like a slow-motion film. In springtime, there are trees heavy with ...
In fact, though “A Gallery of Kings” has never been performed in Boston, Azéma created it in 2011 on commission for the 800th anniversary celebration of France’s Reims Cathedral.
There are some unmissable things to do in Reims, such as the Cathedral and plenty of champagne tours, and there are even more little finds waiting to be discovered. Let’s start with a few facts.
and the Gothic splendor of Reims Cathedral. Soar above the mosaics of St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice, the riverside elegance of the Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar in Zaragoza, and the ...
There’s Whistler’s rendering of London’s Battersea Bridge and Paul César Helleu’s color-spotted oil of the interior of the Reims Cathedral in Paris. Proust’s fascination with Venice ...
Gradually, the cathedral found its place, becoming that sacred place so useful to those in power, even in a secular republic." During the First World War, the Reims Cathedral became the embodiment ...
Ever since the coronation of Louis the Pious in 816 C.E., French kings had traditionally been coronated at Reims Cathedral in the Champagne region. Napoleon reversed course, despite the cathedral ...
After the French Revolution and Napoleon’s concordat with the Holy See in 1801, Napoleon himself wanted a coronation as emperor of France, but in Notre Dame — not in Reims Cathedral ...