Nathalie, unhappy queen
Nathalie Kechko was born in Florence, in the mid-XNUMXth century, to an officer of the Russian Imperial Army and a Romanian princess. Following her marriage to Milan Obrenovitch, she becomes Queen of Serbia. But she was repudiated by her royal husband and deprived of her only son Alexander, with the support of […]
The Roaring Twenties
The end of the 1920th century has been called the “Belle Epoque”, but it ended with the First World War, followed by the Spanish flu. So the XNUMXs ushered in a new, carefree and unbridled way of life. This is why they were called the “Roaring Twenties.” Women's toilets have radically […]
Ilbarritz Castle
When the swell lifts the ocean waves and the storm roars around the belvedere of the castle, one might think that Baron Albert de l'Espée has returned to play tunes from R. Wagner's "Ghost Vessel" on his Cavaillé-Coll de 5.000 pipes for which he had built this stone "in-of-the-thing" house […]