Blogs in January 1970

The Lady and the Unicorn 1st January 1970

Nicolas des Innocents has been commissioned by the Parisian nobleman Jean Le Viste to design a series of large tapestries for his great hall (in real life, the famous Lady and the Unicorn cycle, now in Paris’s Musee National...

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Paris in the Twentieth Century 1st January 1970

In 1863 Jules Verne, famed author of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty Days, wrote a novel that his literary agent deemed too farfetched to be published. More than one hundred years later, his...

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Lauren’s Story: An American Dog in Paris 1st January 1970

A must for all dog lovers

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Half Blood Blues 1st January 1970

Charles C. Jones – Chip – and Sidney Griffiths, have been friends since they were children the STates. They find themselves in Berlin at the start of WW2, jazz musicians in a band whic inludes Hieronymous Falk, who is...

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The girl who fell from the Sky 1st January 1970

Also known as Trapeze. Marian Sutro is a young woman recruited by the British Intelligence Service to go to occupied France and work with the resistance there and carry out a particular mission – essentially to encourage her first...

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