In the centre of Paris’s largest public square stands the more than 3,000-year-old Luxor Obelisk, dragged in the 19th century from its temple in Thebes and shipped down the Nile and across the seas to France to be raised in the capital’s Place de la Concorde, where royalty and revolutionaries in their turns fell beneath the guillotine’s blade. By now, it should be clear: Paris doesn’t really go in for half measures.
Gone are the grey skies and driving rain. Now, the last clouds hang white and ragged in the blazing blue sky. The...
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Author: Paul MILLAR