Ben's Paris Walks

02/08/2024

July 2024

05/05/2024

April 2024.

26/04/2024

09/12/2023

Visit to the National Naval Museum.

19/05/2023

A beautiful morning of history and architecture as at the Invalides!

20/07/2022

Website updated.
New tours available, including the Louvre!
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17/03/2021

You can't be serious?!! 😰
Why dumb down when you can teach...

21/09/2020

New Year's Eve in the French Revolutionary Calendar, approaching midnight. It's also a special leap day, the once every four years "Feast of the Revolution"!

12/08/2020

Nostalgic for the 90s (AD) when Trajan was on the throne, Paris was called Lutetia and Kurtus Cobaenus was the next big thing? 😎

Then join me for a tour of the Secrets of Roman Paris!

https://benspariswalks.com/roman-paris-walk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbEKIW3pUUk

R.I.P Kurtus Cobaenus 😢 This was a really fun one to do, Lemme know what you think :) Wanna follow me? https://twitter.com/KholeJa https://www.instagram.com/...

14/07/2020

Happy Bastille Day Paris History Lovers!!! 🥳

Just in time for the anniversary of the most famous event of the Revolution, I've published the next installment of my series of articles on the causes of the French Revolution.

What caused the French Revolution? Part 3: Why 1789?

"You probably haven’t heard of a grievance book because to my knowledge no other country has been crazy enough- or democratic enough- to invent one”

Any middle school scientist worth their salt knows that for a fire to burn three things are required: fuel, oxygen and a spark. They also know that if there is enough fuel and oxygen, the size of the spark is largely immaterial. In 2019, one cigarette butt- or perhaps it was an electrical fault- set to flames a “forest” made up of 750 tons of wood which had felled way back in the 12th and 13th centuries from 1,300 trees. I’m referring to the roof of Paris’ Notre Dame Cathedral. When the spire collapsed, its crash tore a hole in the vaulted ceiling sending thousands of cubic metres of air whooshing up from the nave and into the inferno. Observers heard a roar and firefighters stepped back as the flames gained momentum. A few hours later the 800-year-old timber-frame was but a memory and Paris mourned.

This is of course not a testimony to the dangers of oxygen. Far from it. Despite being constantly surrounded by the stuff, I rarely feel under threat from spontaneous self-immolation. So too for the French Revolution! In 1789, hunger and misery were as common as air. They would fan the flames but counted for little in isolation. Fear was the spark, but it was only a spark. And the fuel? The most important ingredient of all? It was the meeting of the Estates General...

https://benspariswalks.com/blog/f/what-caused-the-french-revolution-part-3-why-1789

Follow the link to continue reading. Bonne lecture 😁

"You probably haven’t heard of a grievance book because to my knowledge no other country has been crazy enough- or democratic enough- to invent one”

16/06/2020

Seen in 🤣
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15/06/2020

Just published a new article on the best books, films, podcasts and songs of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic era. Enjoy!

https://benspariswalks.com/blog

Cover photo 's never made epic