Early this morning, Monday 27 January, a fire broke out on the roof of the Town Hall in the 12th arrondissement of Paris. Its emblematic 36-metre bell tower was badly damaged. About 150 ...

Prior to 1860, Paris was made up of 12 arrondissements – the 13th existed only as a nudge-wink bit-of-a-larf pejorative term to describe unmarried couples sharing their lives, despite not having ...