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Picture this: quite possibly the most important street photographer of the 20th century was a 1950s children’s nanny who kept herself to herself and never showed a single one of her photographs to anyone. Decades later in 2007, a Chicago real estate agent and historical hobbyist, John Maloof purchased a box of never-seen, never-developed film negatives [...]
Okay, okay so maybe Europe isn’t that financially down in the dumps that we need to start flogging our cultural icons but technically, part of the Eiffel Tower is indeed going on sale today at the famous auction house, Drouot. Every last stick of furniture including the porcelain plates, glasses, tablecloths, tables, chairs and wall [...]
You just don’t hear stories like this anymore… A painting by the French impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir that hasn’t been seen since 1926, presumed lost forever, has turned up in a flea market in Virginia for the bargain price of $7. Sitting in a box of bric-a-brac, neither the vendor nor the woman who bought it [...]
It boasts 19 buildings with traditional French features, including a swimming pool, tennis court, stables, a chapel, village hall and acres of land, but only had an asking price of 330,000 Euros. At such an outlandish price, the abandoned hamlet of Courbefy soon caught the attention of the international media, interest sky-rocketed and gave the [...]
Some cities have a litter problem, some suffer from high crime rates and others might have a lack
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The garden state; where gas prices are cheaper and boardwalks are longer, and also where Napoleon
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Alright, so you might have noticed I have a weakness for French real estate p0rn. [Sigh] I
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A room with uninterrupted sea views? Admittedly, it might need a bit of work but this underwater
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I had you at ‘Free Wine & Cheese‘, didn’t I? If you’ve been umming and
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I remember when I first saw it, Avenue Junot, the cobblestone road that winds up to Montmartre
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Today I thought we could make a quick stop at Villa Pausa on the French Riviera, the former
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When was the last time you felt like complaining to your landlord? It seems there’s always
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After only five years in Paris, “Genevieve de Milwaukee” has gone from editorial
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Beachfront properties custom-built for movie stars and the Hollywood elite, panoramic views from
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