SIDLE UP
There’s an echo of a Jazz Age-era speakeasy in the mahogany panels, vintage-style newspaper rack, and slightly weathered leather chairs.
Erin Zaleski is a Paris-based reporter for The Daily Beast. She has written for Newsweek, Agence France-Presse, Link TV, Bustle, and other outlets.
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NAUGHTY
The famed sculptor caused a major rift between the two iconic artists when he screwed with Monet’s show. Plus, Rodin was a bit of a pig.
SCANDALE
It was the sculpture that was supposed to make the once-rejected sculptor successful. But almost as soon as it was unveiled, he was faced with a shocking accusation.
DRAMA
The world’s richest man, luxury king Bernard Arnault, overhauled an iconic middle class department store in the heart of Paris and turned it into something for tourists.
BONJOUR
Once seen as the egotistical move of a billionaire, Francois Pinault’s museum has turned out to be a fantastic addition, and a welcome one after lockdown.
MON DIEU
It wouldn’t be an understatement to say that the famously lively French capital is shivering through one of its darkest winters in history.
MALAISE
As a new lockdown begins, a shaken France is facing what may be another side effect of the coronavirus: a heightened risk of terrorist attacks.
TANGLED WEB
The Daily Beast has learned Epstein bankrolled a French organization whose executives have ties to Jack Lang, who decades ago defended pedophiles and who is pals with Woody Allen.
LIBRARY PORN
Many of the its riches were seized in the Revolution and then ferreted into the library which, astonishingly, stayed open even as the guillotine continued to fall across the river.
WRITING ON THE WALL
Wilfrid A. used to write “Love roams the streets” all over Montmartre. Thousands of strangers were charmed. But not dozens of women who say he assaulted or raped them.
