André Malraux…

French… author…

Social… critic…

Flamboyant… statesman…

Captivates me…

My total admiration… for everything French in general… Paris… in particular… and mostly… for the enigmatic and powerful intellect of…

André Malraux…

Jeanne Toussaint…

“Une femme brilliante”…

“La panthère… de Cartier“…

Indomitable… woman…

Director of Cartier’s… “Haute Joaillerie” department from 1933 until 1968… world renowned (French) jewellers and watchmakers… Cartier… was fabled for her

Frédéric Chopin…

Fryderyk…

Buried… was his… “heart“…

In his much loved homeland…

Poland…

Beneath an epitaph…

“For where your treasure is…

There will your heart be also”.

Chopin‘s “heart” has

André Malraux…

French… author…

Social… critic…

Flamboyant… statesman…

Captivates me…

My total admiration… for everything French in general… Paris… in particular… and mostly… for the enigmatic and powerful intellect of…

André Malraux…

Gérard Depardieu…

“Je suis…

Raspoutine“…

I have forever… been mesmerised and fascinated… but also repulsed… by Rasputin… the Russian psychic and faith healer…

The so-called… “Black or Mad Monk“…

We have always been drawn to women in history who were beautiful, sensuous, and mysterious – who seduced and mesmerised men of power, intellect, and prestige.

“Cleopatra” – who famously seduced Anthony, was one – but the seductress who fascinates