The controversy about visitors pawing the Molly Malone statue on Suffolk Street in Dublin ... Less charmingly, it is said that rubbing the crotch of Victor Noir, celebrated in bronze on his ...

Among scandalous love stories and ill-fated or dignified deaths chronicled at Père Lachaise swirls yet another Parisian urban legend: if you lie down on Victor Noir’s statue, feet pointing to ...

Among scandalous love stories and ill-fated or dignified deaths chronicled at Père Lachaise swirls yet another Parisian urban legend: if you lay down on Victor Noir’s statue, feet pointing to ...

Steaming coffee in hand, I’m admiring Le Radeau de la Méduse – the Raft of the Medusa – on a crisp morning in Paris. But I’m not at the Louvre, or any of the (many) galleries and museums.