Jan
24th
Thu
24th
Jan
9th
Wed
9th
Carte figurative des pertes successives en hommes de l’Armée Française dans la campagne de Russie 1812-1813, by Charles Joseph Minard (1861)
via wmmna
the puppet show from Les Quatre Cents Coups
Jan
8th
Tue
8th
The Mayor of Paris is about to launch another novel scheme for fighting congestion and pollution: self-service cars. Bertrand Delanöe aims to start with 2,000 electric-powered vehicles that subscribers can drive off without booking at dozens of sites 24 hours a day and then leave anywhere in the city.
![Brochure for Air France, circa 1934, at travelbrochuregraphics
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Dec
29th
Sat
29th
a classic image, via: BLDGBLOG: Building Lightning Farms in Paris
I have a postcard of this photograph - by Gabriel Loppé - by my desk.
This [President Nicolas Sarkozy] is a man who likes to jog, where previous presidents preferred a dignified stroll. Indeed, his predilection prompted Libération, a left-leaning newspaper, to ask, “Is jogging right-wing?” It even moved a philosopher, Alain Finkielkraut, to implore the president to take up the promenade—a “spiritual experience”—and to give up jogging, which is mere “body management”.
Dec
21st
Fri
21st
Nomadics: Christian Bourgois (1933-2007)
“probably the most intelligent, eclectic, elegant and adventurous independent French publisher of the post-war period” - obituary by Pierre Joris.
Dec
15th
Sat
15th
the Google of the built environment?
Re*Move on JC Decaux and the Velib bike-rental scheme in Paris
Dec
9th
Sun
9th
Something is happening in France but you don’t know what it is, do you, Mr Jones?
Click opera rips into Time magazine article on the supposed ‘death’ of French culture. Spot on.