2022-07-20 11:03
Laymen are unaware that, when at 4.25 p.m. on April 7, 2008, nine out of the eleven jurors at the Scott Baker inquest at the Royal Courts of Justice, Strand, London, into the August 31 1997… Read More
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2022-07-12 12:52
I mean I painted it … Yes, I also paint All my paintings are for the buying. Just drop me a line here or on [email protected] should you be interested Read More
2022-06-25 14:08
Are you coming to Paris this summer? Like any tourist have you heard what an expensive city Paris is? About the high hotel charges? And that the French are not always friendly? Well, you nee… Read More
2022-06-20 19:45
This book of mine is, as is said on the cover, the story of France’s most notorious serial killer. He was MARCEL PETIOT. Here I must say — DR MARCEL PETIOT. Yes, Marcel Petiot wa… Read More
2022-06-16 13:00
If there is one thing that visitors to Paris find hard to come to terms with it is the public toilet situation. There just aren’t many! Above as what a public toilet in Paris looks lik… Read More
2022-02-28 13:33
Yes, I have had four books published — and I am busy writing a fifth … Read More
2022-01-12 21:00
Since the September 2012 shooting of the Iraqi-born Al-Hilli naturalised-British family near the town with the delightful name of Chevaline – it means horsemeat – here in France… Read More
2021-10-03 09:10
On Wednesday, September 5 of 2012, Iraqi-born but British-nationalised Surrey-based businessman Saad Al-Hilli, 50, on holiday in the Lake Annecy region in France, was brutally shot down. Saa… Read More
2021-09-23 13:07
I am sure you will love the sculptures of bears and gorillas currently at Paris’ Jardin des Plants. The expo is free , as indeed is the public garden. The Jardin des Plants is open eve… Read More
2021-07-29 06:25
On this day 131 years ago, Vincent, lying dying in the arms of his brother, Theo, was penniless. Today many have become billionaires out of him, and many will continue to do so. In pain, The… Read More
2021-07-27 13:17
Sunflowers oil the delights of a summer day out – WHILE REMEMBERING VINCENT VAN GOGH (Here follows a guest post by Chris Aspinall. His blog can be read on http://indeepschiste.substack… Read More
2021-06-29 07:43
Are you one of the brave who despite Covid-19 will this summer of 2021 be coming to Paris? If so, then you will have to put the village of Auvers-sur-Oise on your agenda. Or rather you will… Read More
2021-06-24 14:05
(Here follows a Guest Post by Chris Aspinall) AMERICANS, it is said, cannot cope with the concept of cricket being a game that can last for five days. This week here in France, a single spor… Read More
2021-05-06 08:25
On Saturday, May 5, 1821 – 2oo years ago – Napoléon Bonaparte breathlessly whispered ‘Josephine’ and with a sigh his life ended. No greater Frenchman has there… Read More
2021-04-15 13:09
On Monday, April 15, 2019 – two years ago today – a fire broke out in Paris’ beautiful Notre Dame Cathedral. Since that day workmen have been restoring the cathedral. It wi… Read More
2021-03-17 13:43
BY MICHAEL COOPER I will from now on occasionally allow a guest to post here on my site. Here follows the first such guest post. You can contact the author should you so wish by email at mik… Read More
2021-03-14 08:41
Every day at 5 p.m. the French Ministry of Health issues the newest statistics for how this terrible virus is attacking France. At this moment – 09.30 Sunday 14/03/2021 these statistic… Read More
2021-03-13 08:34
The Parisians love them, and so do tourists. I am talking about the Paris street market. Strolling round Paris on a Sunday won’t be such a delight as it is without a street market. Of… Read More
2021-03-03 14:23
To come across a painting one day quite unexpectedly and to think that you have in your possession a work of art by a famous artist – Van Gogh for example, or Picasso, or – well… Read More
2020-10-03 13:33
It is always a pleasure for me to visit the town of Auvers-sur-Oise. Auvers-sur-Oise is of course where Vincent van Gogh spent the last two months of his life, and where he died and lies bur… Read More
2020-08-16 15:16
As you may know I not only write but I also paint. That is canvases and not walls. I will show you some of my paintings here now. All are to be bought. So if you are interested do email me h… Read More
2020-05-02 11:11
On your next visit to Paris and you have a day to spare and you wonder where to go, what to see, what to do, think no more. I know where you should go: must go. The town… Read More
2020-02-23 15:12
What is the world coming to? Have you heard of a killer being released from prison because he has a heart condition and may die – in prison? Well, this has now happened here in France… Read More
2020-01-26 13:57
I have been neglecting my website. However, there is a good reason for this. I am deep into writing another book. And what it is about? The picture above should give you a clue. Here f… Read More
2019-10-20 08:56
Oh, fortunate you who will be taking a break in the French capital this coming Christmas and New Year period because here are many new art exhibitions here now. I will list them. Luxe… Read More
2019-10-17 12:11
Great was the relief and happiness on Friday, October 11 2019 (this year) when the news began to circulate in France that Xavier Dupont De Ligonnès, the ‘all… Read More
2019-05-13 12:24
Every day people – French and foreigners – come to Rue Le Sueur in the chic and expensive 16th arrondissement of Paris. They walk down the street, the Eiffel Tower ahead, but for… Read More
2019-04-28 09:43
In 1992 I wrote about a scructural error in Paris’s Notre Dame Cathedral, and that the building was not all that secure. My piece was published on Thursday, May 7, 1992, in the… Read More
2019-04-09 08:17
Book trees have come to Paris. But what is a book trees? It is a tree trunk in which a ‘shelf’ or ‘shelves’ have been carved and where books are left for passersby to… Read More
2019-03-31 12:19
Not only writing, but also paintings, here as some of my paintings. All are for sale … so if you are interested, you can contact me on this site. I will sh… Read More
2019-01-27 11:05
Cemeteries? You won’t walk by one after dark? Here beyond the windows behind my desk is a cemetery. The tombs I cannot see, a building blocking my view, but what I can see are, o… Read More
2019-01-03 08:35
Paris’s Louvre Museum has become the most visited museum in the world. All of 10 million people visited it in 2018: its highest number of visitors ever. Most of the 10 million were Ame… Read More
2018-11-09 12:41
Shame does stick it’s head out at the most inconvenient and thus embarrassing moments. France is leading the centenary commemoration of the end of WW1 – the Great War. Ove… Read More
2018-11-07 12:34
When Dr Marcel Petiot (see my book Die in Paris) was guillotined on Saturday, May 25, 1945, he had a scar on his left foot. Always was this man – France’s most prolific se… Read More
2018-10-24 11:32
On September 17, 2017 (last year) I wrote here on this website how Englishman Adrian Spong has in his possession two artworks he believes are by Vincent van Gogh. Having studied Mr Spong&rsq&hell…Read More
2018-10-09 07:38
A proposal for a one-off dramatized television documentary based on the true-crime book ‘Die in Paris’ by Marilyn Z. Tomlins, published in the U.K. by Ravencrest Books Ltd… Read More
2018-09-23 10:39
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2018-09-19 08:17
Is there anything more French than the guillotine, you may well ask? As a true crime writer resident in France, I’ve written about this head-chopping apparatus, first put to wor… Read More
2018-09-17 14:37
Money makes the world go round, it is said. Money also turns people into murderers: those not having it, wanting it. And murdering to have it. This case – the fatal shooting of M… Read More
2018-09-16 11:36
In July this year of 2018 France’s prison population was 70,710. This number is out of France’s population which comes to 65,286,555 of whom about 6 million ar… Read More
2018-08-28 13:49
For the first half of this year of 2018 17,1 million tourists have come to Paris and the Ile de France (Paris region). Paris, since the end of WW2, having, each year, received more visitors… Read More
2018-08-26 09:20
August 1997 the world media, especially the British nationals, had just one lead story. Tabloids like the Daily Mail, Mirror and The People, even broadsheets like The Times, kep… Read More
2018-08-25 12:29
To stand facing one of these on a Paris street calls for that famous French cry ‘oh là là!’ It is Paris’s newest public urinal for men. Known in French… Read More
2018-07-30 13:43
Today – July 30 – in the year 1890 – it was a Wednesday – Vincent van Gogh was buried in the village where he had died – Auvers-sur-Oise. He had di… Read More
2018-07-30 10:47
It is summer and France is under a heatwave. All – female, male, thin, fat, beautiful, ugly… whatever – are wearing shorts or hot pants, the females in v… Read More
2018-06-16 13:28
At No. 47 Rue Raynouard in Paris’s chic 16th district (arrondissement), there is a house, one not very large or grand, but which all the same left me in silent awe. This house is where… Read More
2018-06-09 13:54
From 1940 to 1944, the Second World War raging, Frenchman Marcel Petiot, to all appearances a kind family doctor – and loving husband and father – was killing peopl… Read More
2018-05-29 10:17
The Aveline Museum must be the most difficult museum to get to in France: certainly, the most difficult to get to in the Paris region known as the Ile de France. I visited this museum for th… Read More
2018-05-10 08:05
One would say that there is not much to the town of Bourg-la-Reine, and there is not. However, almost every day tourists turn up: many Americans or British, but a f… Read More
2018-05-01 10:27
You are sitting down in a Paris restaurant, and you are hungrily waiting for your order to be served. You have ordered Blanquet de Veau – a delicately-flavoured veal stew. And he… Read More
2018-03-24 09:00
As far as miraculous healing is concerned, Saint Bernadette Soubirous of Lourdes and Saint Catherine Labouré of Paris come to mind. Both had had visions of the Virgin: the Virgin… Read More
2018-03-18 09:43
Thinking of moving to France? With a pending BREXIT many Brits are indeed thinking of doing so. Well, do you know what it costs to die in France? Here is a list: Cremation: &euro&hell…Read More
2018-03-18 08:10
For various changes President Macron is planning for France’s State-owned and controlled SNCF – Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer – railroad company, the r… Read More
2018-02-18 09:30
Got this review of my true-crime DIE IN PARIS. John in Pariswrote a review 2018-02-15 KILLER DOCTOR. TRUE CRIME. TRUE HORROR. Marilyn Z. Tomlins’, ‘Die in Pari… Read More
2018-02-04 12:30
Parisians are not known for being welcoming to tourists. We, who live here in this capital of France, think there are too many of them: contrary to those in charge of the State’s… Read More
2018-02-01 13:29
My publishsher http://www.ravencrestbooks.com/ Where you can find my books. Tweet #MarilynZTomlins Read More
2018-01-21 11:18
You would have reached this website because you are a visitor to Paris and you will be using the métro to get about in and around the city. First on your mind will be the question: Wi… Read More
2018-01-17 11:23
I came to this church quite by chance, so now I am trying to ensure that you know of its existence and will go and see it. It was just before Christmas 2017 and a friend and I were walking a… Read More
2018-01-14 11:27
In 2011 the murder of a woman and her four teenage children – and of the family’s two Labradors – shook France. The woman’s husband, father of three of the children… Read More
2018-01-02 13:38
Undoubtedly, you have heard of – eaten – France’s camembert cheese. And France’s Roquefort cheese. However, what about France’s Maroilles cheese? No! Then you a… Read More
2017-12-30 12:43
Having just learned that there is a tree which, when touched,will bring me years of good luck, I rushed there. Alas! It will not bring me good luck, and for that matter,it will no longer bes… Read More
2017-12-12 14:49
Die in Paris is the story of WW2 French serial killer Dr Marcel Petiot … Do watch this You Tube trailer. Tweet #MarilynZTomlins Read More
2017-12-10 08:54
Never seen Paris at Christmas? Oh then, should you have the good fortune – may the gods smile on you – and you will be able to visit Paris, then Yuletide is the time to be here i… Read More
2017-12-05 14:42
The times they are a changen … Porn is no longer – in Paris at least – what it used to be and where it used to be. Once, and not so many years ago, the only place in Paris… Read More
2017-12-03 10:55
You’ve seen what there is to see in Paris and around Paris – Versailles, Fontainebleau, Chartres etc etc etc. So, what else is there to see? Where can you go without having to br… Read More
2017-11-18 11:13
Do you ever listen to the radio? Or, do you think listening to the radio is old hat, something your old Gran and Granddad do? Well, listening tothe radio is still something done here i… Read More
2017-11-04 10:20
Dying in France is an expensive undertaking. A funeral, be it for a cremation or burial, costs around €2500 ($2910 / £2200) to €4000 ($4655 / £3514). This does n… Read More
2017-10-31 13:59
When I came to live in Paris, I was astounded at how long people remained sitting in bistros and bars and cafés and restaurants after they’d drunk or eaten. I was then told that… Read More
2017-10-22 09:51
I have often taken photos of the flickering Eiffel Tower. In fact, I have some very nice and publishable photos of the flickering Eiffel Tower! However, they will be for my eyes… Read More
2017-10-21 09:22
One thing we all have in common: not one of us has chosen our name. Names are chosen for us before we have even been born. Unless of course for one reason or another we call ourselves… Read More
2017-10-20 14:00
I’ve always believed – or at least from the time I’ve started writing books – that environment is important for the words to flow. Having just visited the châte… Read More
2017-09-17 12:38
In 2010 Englishman Adrian Spong, expert art historian, collector and dealer was browsing through the items his local auctioneer had on display. A 19th century landscape watercolour ca… Read More
2017-08-29 09:55
Since ever Frenchmen have been considered dandies. They walked poodles and ate quiche. However, for the past few years Frenchman have been trying to appear manlier. Thus, now they rather wal… Read More
2017-08-26 13:04
Each year in August Paris remembers those brave men and women who were slain in the 1944 fighting to liberate France from German Occupation. One sees all through the southern p… Read More
2017-08-25 12:45
Ten years ago I planned to write a book about the death of Princess Diana. I wrote a 55-page proposal for the book. And what happened? The publishers, all of them in the U.K. inf… Read More
2017-08-07 13:18
At No. 38 Rue du Pain in the town of Saint-Germain-en-Laye is situated the town’s tourist office. It is a narrow, upright building, no different from any others on the long and… Read More
2017-08-06 07:13
The mere name – Impressionist Island – Ile des Impressionnists – makes one think ‘art’. Makes one think ‘Monet … Manet … Pissarr… Read More
2017-08-02 12:22
For just € 7 ($ 8.20 / £6.25) for an adult you will have a most interesting time visiting the Galeries d’Anatomie Comparée et de Paléontologie (Paleontology Mu… Read More
2017-07-30 06:28
There is no fee for a walk around Paris’s Jardin des Plantes, and I assure you that you will pass a few most pleasant hours there. Just walking around, admiring the flowers, and the st… Read More
2017-07-26 11:40
Fifty-five kilometres (34 miles) south-east from Paris is the chateau of Vaux-le-Vicomte. The mere name sounds exquisite. I have twice visited the chateau, and once its park. My last visit w… Read More
2017-07-16 11:13
On July 16 and 17 – Sunday and Monday – this year of 2017, France commemorates what was, for the French, the most horrendous episode of WW2. But only after the war had been, had… Read More
2017-07-11 11:34
Do you want to spend a really interesting couple of hours in a Paris museum? Of course, you would! Therefore, Paris’s Musée de la Préfecture de Police – the P… Read More
2017-07-08 06:31
A young man and woman, both in their early twenties, and both partially clothed, started to make love, lying on the ground in front of the townhall of the town of Cherbourg. It was 8 o&rsquo&hell…Read More
2017-07-02 08:04
The law on prostitution is ambiguous here in France. A woman can take payment for sex, but no other person is to benefit from it. In other words, pimping is illegal. So too is… Read More
2017-06-17 12:01
This year – Thursday, August 31, 2017 – it will be remembered worldwide that on that day in 1997, twenty years into the past, a Mercedes S280, bearing the number plate 688… Read More
2017-06-04 13:09
All hell has broken out in London, yet, Paris this morning of Sunday, June 4, 2017, is a haven of peace. Probably the way Jesus of Nazareth envisaged a Christian day of rest should be… Read More
2017-05-26 09:54
Is there anything more French than the guillotine, you may well ask? As a true crime writer resident in France, I’ve written about this head-chopping apparatus which was first p… Read More
2017-05-21 09:26
You need not hang your head in shame because you have never heard of this artist: Jacques Truphémus. I have not, not until I went to, or rather returned to the Caillebotte Prop… Read More
2017-05-14 09:38
I love zoos. Therefore, I often go walk around in Paris’s two zoos – Vincennes Zoo and the Jardin des Plantes Zoo. I even have an annual pass for the Vincennes one. You can… Read More
2017-05-01 08:35
The next time you walk in a park in Paris – the Tuileries, Luxembourg, Montsouris, Jardin des Plantes whichever – you will come to realise how polite the French are. They w… Read More
2017-04-28 13:01
When I am not writing, or reading what others have written, I paint. No, not walls, but canvases. Here is a series of paintings I’ve done of flowers: and yes the above &ls&hell…Read More
2017-04-24 09:49
Here is a list of Paris’s radio stations according to their popularity. All broadcast 24/24 every day of the week, but night broadcasts are repeats of the day ones. In millions… Read More
2017-04-16 07:14
Today, April 16, 2017, France commemorates the Battle of the Ladies’ Road – Chemin des Dames. This battle begun on this day of April 16 one hundred years ago had left 40,0… Read More
2017-03-27 12:08
Don’t ever think that a museum filled with porcelain items will be a bore. The Sèvres – Cité de la Céramique museum is nothing but boring. In th… Read More
2017-03-22 12:57
Is it possible to hide something which is 35,000 sq m (376,737 sq f or 8.65 acres) large? In France, it is being done. This most-secret ‘thing’ is hidden away on a… Read More
2017-03-17 08:04
Orvault is the kind of town where nothing newsworthy – good or bad – happens. There is never any rioting of which there are much in France these days;… Read More
2017-03-04 10:02
The good are few: the baddies are many. Hitler and his Nazis were baddies. Their names are engraved in Mankind’s memory: Goering, Goebbels, Mengele, Stangl, Himmler, Heydrich, Eichmann… Read More
2017-02-28 07:54
I thought that wine bottles were always lying down on the counters and shelves of bars and bistros, and indeed in shops, to be aesthetically pleasing. But no! The reason is that by lying dow… Read More
2017-02-27 10:57
Two Englishmen aged 42 and 51 are under lock and key in France for having sold a fraudulent cure for cancer. And not only cancer but also sclerosis, alzheimer’s, parkinson’… Read More
2017-02-26 10:37
Many facts there are about Napoléon Bonaparte : about his life, his battles, his death. Here though is the strangest of all facts about him. Napoléon was born on 15… Read More
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