Paname: The Secret History of Paris Podcast
1) What Was Really Hidden Inside Henri IV?
For more than two centuries, a rumour has clung to this monument that inside the body of Henri IV, sealed in the hollow of the bronze, there’s something that doesn’t belong to him at all. A secret hid...Show More
2) The Vendôme Column
Today, we’re heading to a monument that is both extremely vertical and surprisingly controversial. A monument that has been built up, knocked down, rebuilt. - the Vendôme Column. For detailed sources ...Show More
3) Napoleon: A Very Efficient Magpie
Last time, we explored Veronese’s dazzling Wedding Feast at Cana a Venetian marvel painted for a monastery refectory and admired there for over two hundred years. Today, we follow the painting into a ...Show More
4) The Louvre's Stolen Masterpiece(s)
If you thought the recent theft of the Napoleonic jewels from the Louvre was audacious then just wait for what I have in store for you today because it is one of the biggest, and I mean that literally...Show More
5) Artists' Wives
Stretched at full length, on the great divan of a studio, cigar in mouth, two friends—a poet and a painter—were talking together one evening after dinner... what follows are a series of short stories ...Show More
6) The Pox
Spend a night with Venus and the rest of your life with Mercury... have a look inside the museum here Follow me on instagram or go to my website for sources and pictures.Support th...Show More
7) Delacroix Angels
In part two on Eugène Delacroix let's discover some of his work, for free, in a walking tour of 3 churches of Paris: Saint Paul Saint Louis, Saint Denys du Saint Sacrement both in the 3rd and Saint Su...Show More
8) Delacroix's Ear
Eugène Delacroix, the rebel Romantic painter of the 19th century. He would go on to inspire artists for generations to come with his dynamic use of colour and bold brushstrokes. In this episode we ta...Show More
9) Celebri-Trees of Paris
Paris is full of celebrities but did you know that there are also celebri-trees? Fifteen trees of Paris have been awarded the special status of 'remarkable' you can find the full list here. If that d...Show More
10) Paris - City of Lights
Paris is the city of lights, though whether that moniker refers to the intellectuals that have studied here from mediaeval times, the Enlightened thinkers of the 18th century or simply the street ligh...Show More