Paname: The Secret History of Paris
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About
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.
Episodes
- What Was Really Hidden Inside Henri IV?
For more than two centuries, a rumour has clung to this monument that inside the body of Henri IV, sealed in the hollow of the bronze, there’s something that doesn’t belong to him at all. A secret hidden during the Restoration, a political…
- The Vendôme Column
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. For detailed sources and links go to my website. Music Dvir…
- Napoleon: A Very Efficient Magpie
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, pl…
- The Louvre's Stolen Masterpiece(s)
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…
- Artists' Wives
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…