The auction — aiming to make in excess of 7 million euros ($7.5 million) — is a biography in objects. The centerpiece is ...

AYESHA RASCOE, HOST: The famous Paris opera house known as the Opera Garnier is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year. Emperor Napoleon III commissioned the building in the 1850s but would ...

The Paris opera house known as the Palais Garnier turns 150 this year.

Emperor Napoleon III commissioned the building in the 1850s but would never see its completion. Its construction ran over schedule due to a few unexpected delays.

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A Paris opera house created under French Emperor Napoleon III celebrates 150 years The Paris opera house known as the Palais Garnier turns 150 this year.

What appalled and obsessed Victor Hugo most was the seemingly “normal nature” of the French regime, even as it committed acts ...

In the shadow of the capital’s great institutions, we discover exceptional places where not everyone comes to listen to ...

My quest for a true literary experience resulted in choucroute, a surprise organ feast, an epiphany at the Louvre, ...