On the occasion of the splendid immersive Grand Palais exhibition,
Le Figaro Hors-Série "Eternal Venice" takes
you along the Grand Canal to discover its history, its palaces, its artists and craftsmen, yesterday and today. today.
Venice.
Le Figaro Special Edition.
So many lines have been written, so many blackened pages, so many stories, so many poems;
Chateaubriand, Gautier, Balzac, Flaubert, Taine, Proust, Barrès, Hemingway haunt the places with their familiar shadows: we are discouraged from making known, after them, our wonder.
“In red Venice, / Not a moving boat, / Not a fisherman in the water, / Not a lantern,”
sings Alfred de Musset.
“Where do we see dancers at the end of dead leaves, / So many lions lying in front of doorsteps, / So many wooden needles, iron lace, / Marble lace and horses in the air?
/ (…) Where do we see harnessing golden seahorses?
echoes
Jean Cocteau.
Pushing the door of Saint Mark's Basilica, in…
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