Originally posted on Travel Tips in France and Further:
The French fascination with the Elderly Homme Fatale Genre A few weeks ago a Francophile friend lent me a pile of French…
Monthly Archives: January 2013
Tragic story of Camille Claudel – abandoned Schizophrenic
“A revolt against nature: a woman genius”. See Camille in Avignon June – November (see below) Born in 1884, Camille Claudel became fascinated by stone and clay as a child, […]
“It took only an instant to cut off his head, but..”
Lavoisier – the passionate father of Modern Chemistry Born to a wealthy family in Paris in 1743, Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier was a polymath who was born an aristocrat and trained as a […]