Paname: The Secret History of Paris
Paname is about Paris; the people who have lived here, the events that have taken place and the traces they’ve left behind. Come with me to explore the unusual, overlooked and unlikely stories which are often hidden in plain sight. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/panamepodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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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.
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Pixabay & Blue Dot Sessions
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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 very different world: war, politics, plunder, restoration disasters, and an ongoing question of art crimes and restoration. Once again my main source for today is the excellent book Napoleons plunder by Cynthia Saltzman
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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, the biggest, art thefts in the Louvre’s history. Today we are looking at Veronese’s Wedding Feast at Cana, a dazzling masterpiece that once filled an entire wall of the monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, and was prou...
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 which might make you think twice about marriage. My favourite is 'Fragment of a woman's letter found in the rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs'
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Spend a night with Venus and the rest of your life with Mercury...
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Artwork Double Merrick
Music The Owl
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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 Sulpice in the 6th and I try to understand the story of Jacob wrestling an Angel.
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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 take a look at his life & work, visit his studio in Paris and wonder about; the mysterious ear in his garden, why he found the English to be so badly dressed, if Bri really is the king of cheeses and whether is father's eye-watering ...
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 does not seem much then don't worry the Mairie of Paris has chosen 174 trees and they have even made a tree walking tour. So in this episode come with me to find out about the tallest, widest, oldest and most legendary trees of Paris.
<...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 lights there is some debate. But, as with most things in Paris, their light obscures a dark past, so come with me as we head back to a different, darker Paris and discover her journey into the light.
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Upon his death at the age of 90 his children found his home completely empty, stripped of furniture and even lightbulb, all that was left were 6 monogrammed handkerchiefs and an old pair of slippers, Henri d'Orléans, the Count of Paris had made good on his promise to leave them "nothing but hatred and tears with which to weep”
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Today we are heading on a rather a rather morbid walking tour of Paris and to the some of the many places of execution where you could enjoy the spectacle of beheading, quartering, boiling or ears being cut off.... enjoy.
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Jeanne de Clisson, also known as Jeanne de Belleville, or by her nickname ‘The Lioness of Brittany’ and was France's first and fiercest female pirate driven to war with the French king in order to avenge her husband's death. She became a pirate and in a ship painted black with blood-red sails and called called ‘my revenge’ she wrought havoc on the French. She was renowned for her cruelty; upon capturing a French vessel she wou...
In the 10th arrondissement of Paris at place Colonel Fabien, just up from the lovely canal St Martin and opposite the curious headquarters of the Communists building you will see a usual Paris scene of day to day life. but that would have been very different had we passed by here anytime between in the 14th-18th Century so come with me to discover the sombre story of the gibbet of Montfaucon.
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A story by François Coppée set on a cold, Christmas Eve night in Paris. First published in 1893.
Sound design from the talented Christopher Ferreira, find more of his original work here.
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Come with me to the smallest, most exclusive cemetery in Paris, only open twice a year! I managed to get in for a visit and learn about a particularly interesting Montmartre family who defended their iconic windmills and paid with their lives...
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The 13th of October was really an unlucky day for the Capet Kings! In this episode find out how a humble pig changed the fortunes of France.
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Artwork Double Merrick
Music from 'The Owl' Daria Shakhova
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A special episode for Valentine's day about love..... sort of. Colette's short story entitled 'The Other Wife' or 'L'autre Femme' will have you wondering who really is the other woman? You decide.
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"Pope Clement, iniquitous judge and cruel executioner, I adjure you to appear in forty days’ time before God’s tribunal. And you, King of France, will not live to see the end of this year, and Heaven’s retribution will strike don your accomplices and destroy your posterity"
The curse of Jacques de Molay rang out as he was burnt at the stake for the crime of herasy, and maybe we would have forgotten about...
Voltaire may have lived a full life and one that has gone down in history but less well known is his afterlife. Join me in this episode to find out the extraordinary adventures of the philosopher post mortem and finally get to the bottom of the rumors that shroud his final resting place.
Sound design from the talented Christopher Ferreira, find more of his original work here.
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A Christmas story by Guy De Maupassant an author famous for his dark and unusual short stories which reflect Belle Epoch Paris in a new light.
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