Place de l’Odéon: A Cultural Gem in Paris. Nestled in the heart of the 6th arrondissement, just steps from the Luxembourg Gardens, Place de l’Odéon (Odeon Square) and Le Théâtre de l’Odéon (Odeon Theatre) form one of the most historic and charming corners of Paris. Marie-Antoinette commissioned the Odeon Theatre in 1779. Architects Charles De Wailly and Marie-Joseph Peyre designed it, completing it in 1782.Continue reading “Place de l’Odéon: A Cultural Gem in Paris”
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Parisian Lives – the lives of Beckett, de Beauvoir, and Bair
Parisian Lives – the lives of Beckett, de Beauvoir, and Bair. American author Deirdre Bair had written two biographies before she embarked on her own memoir, released in 2019, as the writer of the well-known Samuel Beckett: A Biography (1978) and Simone de Beauvoir: A Biography (1991). It was these two biographies that become Bair’sContinue reading “Parisian Lives – the lives of Beckett, de Beauvoir, and Bair”