Paris in Bleu Blonde Rouge

About Paris in Bleu Blonde Rouge

The wonderful art and history of Paris and France

Publisher

Claudine Hemingway

Category

history

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

7 Jan 2026

Latest episode

6 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

40 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   6 Oct 2026

   The Creation of Christian Dior

   On April 18, 1946, Christian Dior was walking down the Rue Saint Honoré and stumbled upon a cast-iron star at the edge of the sidewalk. During WWII, Dior worked for the Lucien Lelong fashion house alongside Pierre Balmain, negotiating the Occupation years in Paris. Coming out of the fog of war and at a crossroads, Dior ran into a childhood friend, Georges Vigouroux, who was working at the Philippe & Gaston fashion house. Dior’s old chum told him they were looking for a new des...

2. 

   29 Sept 2026

   The Meridian & Gnomon of the Eglise Saint Sulpice

   On the first day of each season at true noon, inside the Église Saint-Sulpice, the sun hits a small hole in the window high above the south transept, and on the spring and autumn equinox, it hits a brass marker just inside the altar. But why, you ask? It goes back almost three hundred years, to 1727, when the parish priest Jean Baptiste Languet de Gergy wanted to ensure the exactitude of the ecclesiastical calendar, particularly Easter and the moment the bells should ring. Clockma...

3. 

   22 Sept 2026

   Anne of Austria and her Summer Apartments of the Palais du Louvre

   Anne d’Autriche was born on September 22, 1601, 425 years ago today. The wife of Louis XIII and the mother of Louis XIV has emblazoned her story into the history books, but it’s a set of rooms within the Louvre that really makes her legacy shine. Today’s episode focuses on the suite of rooms within what was once the Palais du Louvre where the queen mother would spend her summer days and was created for her by her son, the Sun King. The ceilings include scenes from mythology, allegories...

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.6 / 5

11 ratings

Spotify

4.0 / 5

1 ratings

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