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The Holy Thorn Reliquary is a medieval goldsmith's work created in Paris around the 1390s, currently held in the British Museum. It was designed to house a single thorn purportedly from the Crown of Thorns placed on Jesus Christ during the crucifixion. The reliquary is constructed of gold, enamel, s...
Edmund Dulac was a significant illustrator active primarily in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is known for his exquisitely detailed watercolor paintings depicting fantastical scenes from classic literature particularly those by Hans Christian Andersen and Charles Perrault. His...
James Tissot was a French painter and illustrator renowned for his detailed depictions of fashionable Victorian society. After fleeing to London in 1871 following the Franco-Prussian War, he built a successful career painting the leisured class with academic precision and modern realism. In his late...
Suzanne Aigrain is an Oxford professor of astrophysics who studies exoplanets and stellar activity and pioneered Gaussian-process regression for exoplanet data.
Rick Stein's French Odyssey is a 2005 BBC Two series in which Stein travelled through France by canal boat, linking French food to regional history.
The Little Paris Kitchen: Cooking with Rachel Khoo is a 2012 BBC Two series filmed around Khoo's tiny Paris flat and her two-seat Belleville restaurant.
Rick Stein's Secret France is a 2019 BBC Two series in which Stein travelled through lesser-known French regions for six episodes of local cooking.
