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Photography portfolio and purchase:  Martina Nicolls ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. MARTINA NICOLLS MARTINA NICOLLS   is an Australian author and international human rights-based consultant in foreign aid evaluations and audits, education, psychosocial support, resilience, peace and stabilization, and communication, including script writing.  She lives in Paris. Her latest books are :  If Paris Were My Lover  (2025),  Tranquility Mapping  (2025),  Moon, Mood, and Mind Mapping Tracker  (2025), and  Innovations within Constraints Handbook  (2025). She is the  author   of:  The Paris Residences of James Joyce   (2020), Similar But Different in the Animal Kingdom (2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2...

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. MARTINA NICOLLS MARTINA NICOLLS   is an Australian author and international human rights-based consultant in foreign aid evaluations and audits, education, psychosocial support, resilience, peace and stabilization, and communication, including script writing.  She lives in Paris. Her latest books are :  If Paris Were My Lover  (2025),  Tranquility Mapping  (2025),  Moon, Mood, and Mind Mapping Tracker  (2025), and  Innovations within Constraints Handbook  (2025). She is the  author   of:  The Paris Residences of James Joyce   (2020), Similar But Different in the Animal Kingdom (2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (...

  There was a fire at the Notre-Dame-des Champs Church on the Boulevard du Montparnasse in the 6 th  arrondissement of Paris on 23 July 2025. I saw some smoke rising from the inside of the church – the doors were open and the firefighters brought the blaze under control very quickly.    The mayor of the 6 th  arrondissement, Jean-Pierre Lecoq, praised the efforts of the emergency services for rapidly extinguishing the flames using water hoses and fans to dissipate the smoke. He added that the cause was not yet known and neither was the extent of the damage. There were no casualties.    The Notre-Dame-des Champs Church, a Catholic Church, is an historic building built between 1867 and 1876.