In 19th-century Paris, the Paris Morgue became a popular attraction, drawing crowds eager to view unclaimed bodies. This fascination with death, a precursor to modern true crime entertainment ...

Before the ravages of World War II, Paris was the center of the art world ... aesthetics evident in the “Japonisme” of the late 19th century, when a fervor for Japanese art, furniture and ...

My quest for a true literary experience resulted in choucroute, a surprise organ feast, an epiphany at the Louvre, ...