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Part-Time Parisian

John Pearce

Paris Thrillers for the 21st Century

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The Last Viceroy

This Day in WWII | May 18–19, 1941 | Part-Time Parisian

Prince Amadeo surrendering to the British, 1941 (Wikipedia)

A few weeks ago in this space, we watched Benito Mussolini die badly — strung up by his heels at a Milan gas station on Ap...

5 days ago
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A new book — and a favor to ask

I’ve been deliberately quiet about this one.

For the past year I’ve been writing a novel that sits alongside the Eddie Grant books but tells a different story — one I’ve wanted to tell for a while, about a woman who is, in some ways, more...

9 days ago
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The Largest Warship of its Day: HMS Hood sinks before the smoke clears

This Day in WWII | Tuesday, May 19, 2026 | Part-Time Parisian


Painting by J.C. Schmitz-Westerholt, depicting Hood's loss during her engagement with the German battleship Bismarck on 24 May 1941. HMS Prince of Wales is in the foregro...

12 days ago
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Review: On the road in France and Italy with David Downie's unforgettable expat.

Clear, Cool, Sweet Water: A Late-in-Life Love Story, by David Downie. Amazon, $8.99 (Kindle)

Part road novel, part love letter, part drone chase — Downie sends his eccentric expat careening from France to Italy with a killer nephew on...

13 days ago
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The Zinc Bar: Paris’s Disappearing Democratic Institution

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Walk into almost any old Paris café and you’ll notice the counter gleams with a dull silver sheen. That’s zinc — and it’s been the social dividing line of French daily life for nearly two centuries.

The zinc counter replaced p...

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