It offers visitors a vibrant immersion in France's cosmopolitan capital and a history of anti-colonial, civil rights struggles. The 'Black Paris' exhibition features the works of about 150 major ...

The publication in France of a "lost" Jules Verne novel called Paris au XXe siècle 1 (Paris in the 20th Century, untranslated as of this writing) has caused quite a stir in the media during the past ...

The black smoke billowing from burning oil wells during the Gulf War of 1990-91 directed media and public attention towards war's environmental impact. Yet even before the first bomb is dropped, ...

Organised by the NGV together with the Musée d'Orsay (Paris), the exhibition brings late 19th and early 20th-century France to life through paintings and other artworks by Bonnard and his early ...

I am an intellectual historian with a focus on the politics, ideas, and culture of twentieth-century France. My dissertation, “The Discovery of the Sacred in Interwar France: From Contestation to ...

Chris became the project’s postdoctoral researcher in 2007, having worked on the environmental history of military lands in twentieth century France (with a main focus on the post-1945 period). This ...