Dmitry Kostyukov

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Paige McClanahan |Dmitry Kostyukov

You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. A self-guided walking tour explores the French Revolution in the City of Light. Among the sites on the new Parcours Révolution (Revolution Trail) app is the Conciergerie, site of some 4,000 trials of people accused of undermining the nascent republic. June 18, 2025, 5:00 a.m. ETThe City of Light. The Capital of Love. A center of haute couture and haute cuisine.

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Elaine Sciolino |Dmitry Kostyukov

In this city of endless museums and galleries, here are some sequestered collections filled with rarities. Little-known Musée d'Ennery, housed in a neo-Classical mansion, is filled with thousands of Japanese and Chinese objects collected by Clémence d'Ennery in the 19th century. Credit... Paris is a city of museums, nearly 150 by my unofficial count.

Aug 3, 2024 | nytimes.com | Sarah Lyall |Rory Smith |Dmitry Kostyukov

For most of the athletes at the Paris Olympics, the accommodations are to be endured, rather than enjoyed. In the name of sustainability, the beds at the Olympic Village feature cardboard frames and inflatable mattresses. The bathrooms are communal. To the horror of the French, the British have even complained about the food. One group of competitors, though, has no such issues.

Jul 4, 2024 | nytimes.com | Aurelien Breeden |Aida Alami |Dmitry Kostyukov

In the 1980s, a French punk rock band coined a rallying cry against the country's far right that retained its punch over decades. The chant, still shouted at protests by the left, is "La jeunesse emmerde le Front National," which cannot be translated well without curse words, but essentially tells the far right to get lost. That crude battle cry is emblematic of what had been conventional wisdom not only in France, but also elsewhere - that young people often tilt left in their politics.

Jun 28, 2024 | nytimes.com | Catherine Porter |Dmitry Kostyukov

Equally stunned by the results, and worried about what might happen in the French legislative election that begins this Sunday, was the centrist mayor of Gourin, Hervé Le Floc'h. President Emmanuel Macron announced the snap election on June 9, after the far right trounced his party in the European elections. "We all have some family in the United States," said Mr. Floc'h from his office in city hall, which overlooks the mini Lady Liberty.