Author: BB

4.00pm on 9th November and we’re back in Paris again, continuing our research into the life and thoughts of Mathieu Delarue. Sitting in a brasserie starring through a large glass of Hoegarten  & [...]

Funny how time flies, our two weeks are over and its time to return to London. Our train is leaving at 12.30 and we need to leave the apartment by [...]

Another late night for Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu, as he passed the night through many bottles we explored the many faces of Depardieu with Indian ink & the left-over wine! [...]

Sitting outside the cafe on rue Bonaparte Mathieu became aware of a man walking his dog on the other side of the road. He’d been watching him for a few [...]

The cafes of Montparnasse had now become the home of the world’s Avant-Garde, Mathieu felt uncomfortable in their surroundings – they were a bit too showy for him (he preferred [...]

11.30am on a Sunday morning and we find ourselves wandering around the Marché aux Puces de St-Ouen Flea Market, to our surprise we recognized a familiar voice effortlessly floating over the active [...]

Early on a December morning in 1931 Delarue was enthralled by the latest twist in the Defence Minister’s scandalous affair when his newspaper was ripped from his hands – standing [...]

Monsieur Renault was an interesting man, very particular, always immaculately dressed and always deferred to Flange (his dog). In a surreal world it’s odd to come across an individual who [...]

It was a cold Saturday morning in November 1928 when Mathieu stumbled out onto the rue Charlot, head still buzzing from the wine and conversations he’d spent with some artist friends [...]