Tag Archives: Stanley Loomis

Asylum

Posted on August 15, 2021 by Parisian Fields

Last month, when I learned that absinthe had been known as the “Charenton omnibus” – Charenton being the site of a famous mental hospital – I became curious about mental institutions in the Paris area. There are many interesting stories … Continue reading →

Posted in Paris history, Paris hospitals, Paris quartiers | Tagged Bicêtre, Charenton, French Revolution, Jacques Belhomme, Kremlin-Bicêtre, Maison Belhomme, Pension Belhomme, Philippe Pinel, rue de Charonne, Salpetrière Hospital, St-Lazare, Stanley Loomis | 9 Comments

Places of healing

Posted on May 17, 2020 by Parisian Fields

As businesses and institutions in France begin to open up, cautiously, I find myself trying to imagine life in the city right now. Those thoughts start with the quartier we know best – the Observatoire. It’s a neighbourhood that I … Continue reading →

Posted in Paris history, Paris hospitals | Tagged American Hospital in Neuilly, Cochin Hospital, Hôpital Laënnec, Hôpital Lariboisière, Hôpital St-Louis, Hôpital St-Vincent-de-Paul, Hôtel-Dieu, Hertford British Hospital, Jean-Martin Charcot, La Pitié–Salpetrière, Necker children's hospital, Port Royal maternity hospital, Sigmund Freud, Stanley Loomis, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue hospital, Val de Grace | 6 Comments

The Nuns’ Tale

Posted on June 9, 2013 by Parisian Fields

A few months ago, I was working at my desk while the radio played in the background. All of a sudden, I heard something extraordinary. I had been vaguely aware of some orchestral music that suggested foreboding and sorrow, but … Continue reading →

Posted in Paris history, Paris music | Tagged Canadian Opera Company, Compiegne, Constance of Saint Denis, Dialogues des Carmelites, Francois Poulenc, French Revolution, Georges Bernanos, Gertrud von le Fort, Isabel Bayrakdarian, Madame de Croissy, Madame Lidoine, Martyrs of Compiegne, Paris in the Terror, Place de la Nation, Robert Carsen, Robespierre, Song at the Scaffold, Stanley Loomis, William Bush | 22 Comments

How I learned to stop worrying and love Wikipedia

Posted on February 26, 2012 by Parisian Fields

When I am not working on the blog or running my own business, I teach in the geography department of the University of Toronto. Among other things, I talk to my students about research skills, and I encourage them to … Continue reading →

Posted in Paris history, Paris postcards | Tagged A Crime of Passion, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Chauncey C. Loomis, Du Barry, Duc de Praslin, Duchesse de Praslin, Gallica digital library, George Méliès, Georges Dufayel, Gustave Rives, Hotel Astoria, Hugo, Legion of Honour, Les Grands Magasins Dufayel, Paris in the Terror, Sainte-Adresse, Stanley Loomis, The Fatal Friendship, Wikipedia | 12 Comments

The queen in the tower

Posted on March 11, 2011 by Parisian Fields

Last week, Norman posted his picture of a “melting bicycle” and it got me thinking about the place and time we saw it. Then a reader wrote in and asked about places to stop and sit in the Marais, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Paris history, Paris markets, Paris street art | Tagged Carreau du Temple, Church of St. Elizabeth, Goumanyat, Knights Templar, Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Napoleon, Robert Doisneau, Sophie la Girafe, Stanley Loomis, Temple, Thiercelin, Turgot map, Varennes | 3 Comments

“A vile business clumsily done”

Posted on October 29, 2010 by Parisian Fields

In 1847, the year that Charlotte Brontë published Jane Eyre, Paris society was riveted by a similar triangle –a wealthy and prominent man, his unbalanced wife, and a young governess. Their story, however, had a very different ending. In August … Continue reading →