The Paris Catacombs are a real curiosity: the bones of about six million people have been lying under the 14th arrondissement of Paris since the end of the 18th century. This amazing ossuary installed in the underground galleries of Paris is world-famous and welcomes more than 500,000 visitors every year! But what is the history […]
Do you know the Bagatelle castle (château de Bagatelle)? It is little known and yet it is located in Paris and its history is quite amusing: it is the result of a crazy bet between Marie-Antoinette and the Count of Artois who had it built in less than 100 days! Discover the history of this […]
It took almost 60 years for Christo and Jeanne-Claude‘s dream of wrapping the Arc de Triomphe to become concrete. Imagined in 1961, “L’Arc de Triomphe wrapped” is no longer a project but a reality! Since September 18 and until October 3, 2021, the Arc de Triomphe can be observed entirely wrapped. A project imagined by […]
