Paris 
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10/11/2020
Paris, City of Dreams: Napoleon III, Baron Haussmann and the Creation of Paris
by Jeff Roquen
Nothing can compare to a visit to Paris, but until international travel resumes, readers can learn how the modern city was built through Mary McAulliffe's book.
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SOURCE: Air Mail
6/6/2020
Nazi Lockdown
by Ronald C. Rosbottom
The German occupation crushed ordinary life in Paris as its citizens hid from the “brown plague.”
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5/31/2020
"Fiction Makes a Better Job of The Truth"? Telling the Erased Story of Lucia Joyce
by Annabel Abbs
A historical novel exposes the complex relationship between historians and sources: "Because Lucia’s own voice had been effectively smothered, most ‘facts’ came from those later responsible for incarcerating her in a series of mental asylums and hospitals. Few sources are genuinely independent, memory is notoriously fickle, and all facts are open to interpretation."
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10/15/19
Love in Post World War II Paris
by Bruce Chadwick
An American in Paris is a complicated story of a man who loves a woman.
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SOURCE: AP
8/25/19
Paris celebrates its liberation from Nazis, 75 years on
Paris celebrated the American soldiers, French Resistance fighters and others who liberated the City of Light from Nazi occupation exactly 75 years ago on Sunday, unleashing an eruption of kissing, dancing, tears and gratitude.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
4/16/19
The story behind the towering Notre Dame spire and the 30-year-old architect commissioned to rebuild it
Less than a week before fire tore through Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, a repair crew brought down religious statues for the first time in more than a century.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
4/15/19
A history of great cathedrals that have been lost to fire and war
Notre Dame is one in a long line of cathedrals that have been ravaged by fire or war.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
4/16/19
Notre Dame was in ruins. Victor Hugo’s novel about a hunchback saved it.
France has rebuilt its iconic cathedral before.
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4/15/19
The Sorrow of Watching Notre Dame Burn
by Ed Simon
"In this age of uncertainty, of rage, of horror, and of violence; of the decline of democracy and the heating of the planet; it can feel as if Notre-Dame’s fire is as if watching the very world itself be engulfed."
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2/10/19
The American Tourist in Paris: A Retrospective
by Lauren Jannette
Although no longer breaking furniture, running out on checks, and throwing racist fits about the evening’s entertainment, Americans remain an integral part of Paris’s continued debates over the benefits and detriments of being one of the world’s largest tourists destinations.
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SOURCE: Colossal
12-27-2018
Video of the Week: Edited Film Footage from 1890’s Paris Explores Some of the Everyday Thrills of Late 19th-Century Life
by Kate Sierzputowski
Videographer Guy Jones slows down film from the late 1800s to early 1900s to more accurately match the speed at which modern footage is recorded and played. In addition to editing the pace of the century-old film, Jones also adds in sound effects to make the scenes more relatable.
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
5-15-15
15 stunning photos that show how Paris has changed since World War II
by Rick Noack
Seventy years ago this month, the Allied forces defeated the Nazis. How have things changed since then?
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1-14-15
The Paris Tragedy and the War Within Islam
by Brian Glyn Williams
A Journey into the Battle for the Soul of the Muslim World.
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SOURCE: Greene County Daily World
1-10-15
University of Evansville history professor's cartoon response to Paris shootings read around the world
Picked up by the news website Vox, James MacLeod's cartoon was soon featured among the cream of the crop of editorial cartoonists' responses published around the globe online and in print.
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SOURCE: Informed Comment
1-7-15
Sharpening Contradictions: Why al-Qaeda attacked Satirists in Paris
by Juan Cole
"The horrific murder of the editor, cartoonists and other staff of the irreverent satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, along with two policemen, by terrorists in Paris was in my view a strategic strike, aiming at polarizing the French and European public."
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SOURCE: NYT
12-15-14
France Confronts an Ignoble Chapter
In Paris, an exhibition at the National Archives looks at French people who were genuine supporters of the Nazis during World War II.
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SOURCE: The Daily Beast
12-14-14
A History of Paris in 150 Photographs
A new exhibit claims to present the social history of Paris as seen through the lens of Magnum photographers over the past century.
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SOURCE: Telegraph (UK)
8-24-14
Paris is celebrating 70 years since liberation from Nazi occupation, with little contribution from US or UK
The week-long celebrations have focused mainly on the part played by French civilians and fighters,
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4-14-14
How a Medieval Knight Solved One of History's Great Crimes
by Eric Jager
“Never was there a more treacherous murder!”
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SOURCE: The Independent (UK)
8-4-13
Tower at heart of Paris opens to the public for the first time
The Eiffel Tower has a new rival, five centuries old.For the first time since it was built in the early 1500s, the Tour Saint Jacques, a mysterious stand-alone Gothic tower in the geometric centre of Paris, is opening to the public this summer.The 170ft-high tower, long surrounded by myths and legends, has literary connections ranging from Alexandre Dumas to Marcel Proust. It was used by the writer and scientist Blaise Pascal to experiment with atmospheric pressure and weights a century before Isaac Newton developed his theory of gravity....
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