Very hot and sunny in the Morbihan, and getting ready once again to visit the family in Versailles and stop by Paris of course. We have a holiday call assomption on August 15 so we will have a three day weekened to enjoy in summer.
Here the tourist are in force all over and especially on sunny days by the coast gulf area on the beaches. My next stop after the 15 august will be in sept 3rd to pick kids for the school here that starts sept 5, and then return the mother sept 10th, waiting for the house to sell there.
If anybody wants to meet me I will be sept 5-9 in the evenings in Paris by the hotel Magellan on the 17éme.
Lately the Le Figaro has come up with a contest for the best strawberry pie in Paris and the winner was Gerard Mulot, 76 rue de Seine ,6éme. 2nd was Jacques Genin at 113 rue de Turenne, 3rd Dalloyau 101 rue faubourg saint honore.
Similar ranking fr the gaufres,where the winner is L’avant Comptor at the carrefour de l’Odéon one of my favorite places in Paris, 2nd place was for L’Absinthe at pl du marche saint honore, and 3rd place for Le Boumangepicerie at the 3rd etage of the store Printemps, blvd Haussmann.
The Rotonde de Stalingrad is back , renovated and great looking. The Rotonde was done in 1788 and was the phare of the walls of the store FErmiers Genereaux . It was here that the offices of the rights of passage of merchandise entering Paris was found. When these righes or taxes were eliminated in 1791, the building was abandoned, then serve as headquarters of the municipal garde from 1830 to 1865,then house of salt from 1865 to 1921. The Rotonde was saved from the demolition of Baron Hausmann while extending the limits of Paris in 1860 (see my entries on villages and arrondissement of Paris),and was reborn after the fire of the communes in 1871. Finally escape the tracing of the metro line 2 from 1900 to 1903. It house from 1960 the commission du Vieux Paris (commission of old Paris) that stayed until 2004. In 2009, the project of renovation took place that ended just this week!!!!!
The Rotonde now has a circular brasserie with traditional French dishes, it has a big terrace with a great brunch on Sundays for 35€ as well as the Bar du Coin (Corner bar) with light food for the fast food aficionados. The Rotonde has 7 private rooms for pro seminars, meetings, etc and open to rent to individuals as well for yoga courses, shops of plastic arts or their anniversaries as well as expositions with the sponsoriship of the Mairie de Paris (mayor ‘s office) . You can read my entry on the Paris 19 arrondissement where I told you of the construction of the brasserie inside the Rotonde. La Rotonde, 6-8, place de la Bataille de Stalingrad (75019). Tél.+33 (0) 1 80 48 33 40. Carte : 20-40 euros. webpage at http://www.larotonde.com/
Just in and its raining cloudy day in Versailles, will need tog o out again to get my oldest son at work,then go to Paris tomorrow with the family.
Now the Arts go elsewhere in France ,not just Paris, go see the movable feast that is all of France!! First, the Louvre goes to Lens there by 2012!!! Just coming out of the Gare de Lens train station you see the happening, all over is getting ready for the grand opening seven years after its annoucement and I spread the word too in many travel forums . For its international part the Architects are from Japan; with glass and metal in squares with a gallery of time looking into a gallery of glass.
They expect to have 700 000 visitors the first year and so on; the list of objects to be presented there are already agreed on but kept secret until showtime ! We know here that one of its beauties will be the painting by the great Eugène Delacroix, will have its opening there at the gallery of glass or “galerie du temps”. Some others promise there will be a Botticelli, a Watteau, one Boilly, a Léonard de Vinci, a Poussin:and many others. All total will have about 900 works of arts, 250 in the gallery, 70 for the pavillon de verre (glass house), and 200 for the expositions, will be there for one to three years. The visit to the gallery will be free for the first year. An official webpage is here http://www.louvrelens.fr/
then, the other great one, Versailles is not to be left behind non plus ::) About 80 works of arts from the palace will be on display at Arras in the north of France, and only half an hour from the louvre at Lens .The agreement between the Musée des beaux-arts d’Arras (fine arts museum of Arras) and the Château de Versailles. It will lends some of its beauties to Arras for the next 10 years . The collections that will be seen with the expositions of long term showing (18-24 months) will be house in a wing at the abbey of Saint-Vaast. Museum information on the site of the mayor’s office of Arras webpage http://www.arras.fr/culture/musee-darras.html
Take care and have a great weekend everyone. Cheers.
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