An interview with an Erasmus student

Thomas Garcin, from the Universite Paris-Sorbonne, tells us all about his year abroad at UCL History 2015-16.  What made you choose to study history at UCL? Different things, including in part chance. Given my special course (double degree, one in history, one in English Language, Literature, and Civilisations) going to an English speaking country was…

Paris – a city of cinema

Paris is busy building new cinemas for old films. In November last year the major French film company Gaumont-Pathé opened a 5-screen cinema called Les Fauvettes in the thirteenth arrondissement. Not only is the name Les Fauvettes a throwback to the cinema’s previous existence as a Music-Hall called La Fauvette (1895 – 1930s), but the…