Antoine Compagnon

From an eminent scholar, a spirited introduction to one of the great polymaths in the history of Europe. Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) is best known in the English-speaking world for his contributions to mathematics and physics, with both a triangle and a law in fluid mechanics named after him. Meanwhile, the classic film My Night at Maud's popularised Pascal's wager, an...

Marcel Proust once wrote, "There is no longer anybody, not even myself, since I cannot leave my bed, who will go along the Rue du Repos to visit the little Jewish cemetery where my grandfather, following a custom that he never understood, went for so many years to lay a stone on his parents' grave." Investigating the origin and significance...

Colour Unbound: Henri Matisse 1941–1954 is published to accompany the major exhibition at the Grand Palais, Paris, and reveals the dazzlingly original work of Matisse's final years. 1941 marked a turning point in the life and work of Henri Matisse. At the age of seventy-two, he underwent major surgery that left him physically fragile. Yet Matisse viewed this moment not...