Nobody embodied the glitz and glamour of the fin-de-siècle quite like ‘La Divine’, as a lavish show at the Petit Palais proves
Romain Duris cuts a dash in a lavish French film about the engineer, but it’s the tower that’s the true star
When Marie Antoinette had a theatre built at Versailles, her play-acting took to a stage of its own – and now this splendid interior has been meticulously restored
Avant-garde as she was, the artist was also deeply influenced by Russian folk traditions and history