Back when I first head about the horrendous mass shooting at the concert in Las Vegas I immediately honed in on a few details I knew th...

L'obelisque When I moved to Toulouse in April, 2002, I lived a few hundred yards away from this plaza and for over a year regularl...

This here's a photo of the entrance to Toulouse's Terre Cabade municipal cemetery, a small necropolis atop the Jolimont at the ...

Photo courtesy of Luis Morgado.   Please visit the link to see his other pictures of Lisbon's wonderful architecture. Cemetery of Pl...

Here's a little ditty for all you latter-day Egyptian Revivalists and cemetery groupies....  Back in 2009 I posted about the E...

Whereas, having recently gone back into the archives to write up things which had been percolating for a while, being otherwise bereft of an...

Armand Cambon, La République , 1848-1849 Like everywhere else in Europe, the first half of the 19th century was an especially turbulent ...