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Articles with keyword "Paris"

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American Arriviste

By Edward G. Gray

The eighteenth-century traveler, writer, and social climber John Ledyard joins Thomas Jefferson and a famed circle of expatriates in Paris.

Frenchman weeps as Germans occupy Paris

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Julien Green: The End of a World

By Francis-Noël Thomas

As Germany occupied France, Green brought Paris to life in his superlative diaries.

French singer/songwriter Leo Ferre

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Liberating Experience

By Steve Moyer

The music of protest

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Interesting Mustard

The rise of the restaurant.

Stein in France with her longtime friend Bernard Faÿ

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The Strange Politics of Gertrude Stein

By Barbara Will

Was the den mother of modernism a fascist?

Portrait of Gouverneur Morris

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Ungoverned Passion

By Meredith Hindley

Founding Father and ladies' man Gouverneur Morris flees revolutionary Paris to discover the delights of central Europe.

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Black Mozart

By James Williford

A Pennsylvania scholar brings new interest to the composer known as the Black Mozart.

Pablo Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907

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Why Paris?

By James Panero

Two neighborhoods—Montmartre and Montparnasse—helped shape Picasso and a generation of innovators.