... occurred in a private residence in Strasbourg after the French dispensed entirely with any elaborate ceremony. This contrasts with more extensive interventions, such as when a pair of barges were employed in 1615 to effect a double transfer of brides, Elisabeth of France and Anne of Austria, in the middle...

... colonial project. Illustrating the strategic importance of references to the crusader-king Louis IX, whose short stay in Tunisia culminated in his death in 1270, this article explores a dynamic ensemble of commemorative structures and spaces built by France and the Catholic Church on the Byrsa Hill...

... of archival and primary sources to analyze maisons de la culture in France and Kulturpaläste or Kulturhäuser in the German Democratic Republic during the 1960s and 1970s. Focusing on the roles of bureaucrats, policy makers, and designers, he reveals how architecture articulated cultural politics in which...