In my new life as retiree my blog is my biggest entertainement and before anything else, I like to thank everyone of my readers and followers to stay with me over the years since November 26 2010 !!! Thank you !!! I decided to trim some of my older posts in my series Some news from France and condense them as not to lose the most important parts, me think, of them, Therefore, this is my new work, the condense news of my belle France, Hope you enjoy it as I.
Some news from France CXIIII August 1, 2013
We have the festival of impressionistes ,all over Normandy and at Giverny , where we are reminder of the close collaboration with Japanese painter Hiramatsu Reiji , presenting for the first time in France. The presentation will have a collection on display of japanese scenes from Claude Monet, and works of the prestigious collection at the museum of Musée Marmottan Monet ,and the high school or lycée Claude Monet of Paris. Call « Hiramatsu, the fountain of nympheas, honoring Monet »,until October 31.
At Granville, « Impressions Dior » witness the links uniting the house of Dior with the impressionistes movement. THe museum Christian Dior starts a dialogue between a selection of paintings by Monet, Degas, Renoir , and others and more than 70 dresses from the first creation of Mr Dior. until September 22. At Grasse, you have the Musée International de la Parfumerie; exposition of Paul Poiret. fashion modist that was the first one to create its own perfum house in 1911 : Les Parfums de Rosine. Until September 29.
Some news from France CXV September 11, 2013
Hey although nowdays I enter Paris by Montparnasse, I cannot forget my first train station of entrance to work in Paris, Gare St Lazare, it was a bit rusty and old, then, but it has gone a renaissance and its now I said one of the best train stations in France ,not to say Europe.
This is a great theater near the area of my work,and visit next week, Théatre des Sablons, yes by metro Sablons or buses 43 and 82 at Chartres takes you here easy from Paris, the theater is in nearby Neuilly-sur-Seine dept 92. Great expectacles and Jane Birkin will be in December lol!
Right now you have from September 13 to 16 the Salon du Cycle at the parc des expositions de la porte de Versailles. You can test bikes on site, and rides with more than 400 brands from 27 countries.
Some news from France CXV October 2, 2013
The Biennale de Belleville comes back in September 2014 with new artists in vogue, al. ways something to look forward to. Look for this site for the updates, it’s a great event. At the Hotel Salomon de Rothchilds at 222 blvd Saint-Germain, from October 4,5,6 the European days of letters or the Journées Européen des lettres manuscrits will be on display at the museum.
Les Docks encircle a whole block. at the banks of the river Seine, just open last year and already life in the district. Boutiques ,bars, restos, salons de thé, night clubs such as Nûba and Baron, then the star ,the Wanderlust at the street level with a restaurant le WE, a club, lots of night activity with films shows in plain air and a huge terrace with all kinds of performers even yoga on Saturdays: located at 34, quai d’Austerlitz (75013) The metallos of Culture. With a great effort of local neighborhood associations the city of Paris purchase this house in 1997, The Maison des métallos, was an old factory of the metallurgical union. From 2007, it is a cultural center with an auditorium, audio and video studios, expositions for all publics. NExt will have work showing the work at Rwanda by the group Groupov with La Cantate de Biserero located at 94, rue Jean-Pierre-Timbaud (75011)
Some news from France CXVI October 25, 2013
1925 the Art Deco in Paris now is back to seduce you again; this is the period from 1919-1940 but especial showcasing the 1925 year. see it at the Cité de l’architecture et du Patrimoine at 1 pl du Trocadéro et du 11 novembre. The Palais Galliera is opening with a nice fashion show on Alaîa. The museum of fashion of the city of Paris.What a way to reopen the museum…! The show on until January 26 2014.
See wonderful Lyon, France’s 3rd largest city. 6-9 December 2013 its the Fête des Lumières or festival of lights, and take advantage of a visit to the wonderful Bibliothéque des Arts . Just passed by the gare de Bellegarde on my way to Switzerland, opened in May 10 2010 this has a very nice engineering touch of double dome which is opaque and transparent good for summer and winter. air circulation provides the energy Inside. Went there leaving from Gare de Lyon Paris, the 3rd station in terms of traffic in Paris about 83 million pass per year; A new restaurant the Montreux Jazz Cafe Under the famous Train Bleu resto will open next month. Of course, the name coming from the famous Jazz festival there that I love so much, can’t wait On my old gare Saint lazare whre I went thru so many times while working in Paris, (first train station in Paris since 1837 a boating docks ,2nd train station in Europe with about 100 millions pass per year) Completely renovated and gorgeous; the great chef Eric Fréchon of Le Bristol just opened a restaurant there, La Lazare! can’ wait. Just a reminder from an early post, this year is the 850 anniversary of the Cathedral Notre Dame of Paris!! A wonders in its own right and a must visit while in Paris;even the long lines is Worth it. They do 13 million visitors per year; 5 offices per day from Mondays to Saturdays, and 7 on Sundays; in all the festivities and activities they do more than 2000 célébrations per year. metro line 4 Cité or Saint Michel, Line 1 Hôtel de Ville, line 10 Maubert-Mutualité, or Cluny-La Sorbonne, line 7,11,and 14 at Châtelet are all take you there. Not to leave out the RER B/RER C Saint-Michel-Notre Dame.
A wonderful place showcase here before but now is open to the public is the Elephant paname, centre d’art et de danse, 10 rue Volney The mansion was built by the Russian ambassador Under Napoleon III. Very lavish rooms and décorations, Under the same roof you have an exhibition hall, five dance studios, a theater, and Goust the Italian restaurant of Enrico Bernardo
Some news from France CXVII October 30, 2013
The bibliothéque nationale François Mitterrand is doing an expo on Astérix; From now thru 14 january 2014. Tuesdays to Saturdays at 10h and Sundays at 13H. There will be 120 designs color and not colored from the two first albums of the collection “Astérix le Gaulois” and “La serpe d’or”, but ,also of the last one signed by René Goscinny, “Astérix chez les Belges”
A night with Fantômas. The théâtre du Châtelet will dedicated the night of Halloween to Fantômas, mythical heroe of the French fiction born out of the pen of Pierre Souvestre and Marcel Allain. The francophones will remember these were put into cinema with the great Louis de Funes, and I learn my French watching them as a Young boy. For the 11-15 yrs old, the Aquarium de Paris propose «l’Aquaparty», its a giant boom aquatic! An evening of terrifying proportions where the teens will dance in front of a giant pool of 8 meters high. Lighted podiums, diabolic cocktails (no alcohol) and contests for the most horrible costume are in the program Under the eyes of zombie animators. In other world, during 11 days from 11h to 19h, at the place de La Bastille there is the rendez-vous of antiques lovers at the biannual salon Antiquité Brocante welcoming 70 antiquaires, that will installed their wares on the tent and 480 fleas spread all over the bassin de l’arsenal
Some news from France CXVIII November 7, 2013
France benefits from one of the biggest and most dense network of libraries in the world. It has about 2500 of them (compare with only 1000 in the UK). In Paris,there is a Library for each 4800 inhabitants – a record. The government just came to help more with an aide package of 9M€ to help the indépendants. there is even a new internet site that regroup them all. It will help find your book, choose the Library closest to you, and reserve to pick up there.
Until March 8 2014 at the Salle Saint Jean de l’Hôtel de Ville de Paris, you will see wonderful photographs of inmense Paris by Brassaî, call Brassaï : Pour l’amour de Paris. For more than 50 years Brassaî ,the writer, photographer, and movie maker had with Paris a total passion. The city that made the red cord of his work and the heart of his réflexions all along his career.
Some news from France CXVIIII December 6, 2013
The new things first, LA Belle Iloise, that great Breton institution has open in Paris! 7, rue de l’Ancienne-Comédie ,open everyday from 9h30 to 20h30 Angelina rive gauche, the famous chocolat chaud is coming to the left bank, at 108, rue du Bac, open everyday except Sundays morning
The Fair Lady is coming to the Théatre du Châtelet from December 5 to January 1st 2014. Visit the Buddhist Panthéon near the Arc de Triomphe, 16 avenue d’Iéna, where you can see the over 250 works taken back in 1876 by Emile Guimet, where his museum is just next door Paris has many churches, but go to the one call Church of Saint Christophe de Javel built in 1926 in a working class district and beautiful enough for all to come see it. It has cross of Christ in wood, with frescoes of cyclists, aviators, and automobilists. 28 rue de la convention
Take a walk alone the Petite Alsace, that bring back memories that before 1860 and the Haussmann landscape change ,Paris was divided into 11 towns. A quiet place but you can walk it. Done in 1912 with about 40 houses, plonging to the petite Russie at district Durval in the Buttes aux Cailles of the 13éme arrondissement. You can visit the old hôtel de Soissons built in the 16C by Catherine de Médicis; it is not much left but a tower, next to the bourse de Paris in the gardens of the halles, you see the column tower; it is now a place of pilgrimage for those who believe in reincarnation. As the prediction by Nostrademus, that the queen built it to serve as observation tower for the reincarnated… See the plaque Under the pont neuf about the burning there of the grand master of the order of Templars , Jacques de Molay, or the hear the psychics at the cementary Pére lachaise from the tomb of Allan Kardec, father of the spirituarism in France. To finish this eery trip, stop by the librarie de l’Inconnu, 84 rue du Cherche-Midi where you will find treasures of the sorcery, alchimist,and the kabbale.
Do you remember the old Paris stores? how about magasins Prisunic… 136-138 rue de Rennes, 75006. Done in 1906, it is today the FNAC store at Montparnasse since 1974. how about the palais du Trocadéro? , well at the hill of Chaillot, following the universal expo of 1878 a palace was built in a néo-moorish style, a new one was built at the place in 1932 for the other universal exposition in Paris. The tower on each side you see now, were really a dome in the middle , now it is flat. At the gare de la bastille or train station done in September 1859 ,it was closed when the RER A open, in 1969. From 1984 it is now the opéra Bastille! In 1923 before the well known cafe Le Select opens, the place was call the Dingo Bar at 10 rue Delambre; here Americans used to come way back such as Erza Pound,Henry Miller, John Dos Santos,Ernest Hemingway met Francis Scott Fitzgerald!!!
Some news from France CXX December 25, 2013
Fondation Cartier – Paris 19éme, will have a showcase of America Latina 1960-2013 until April 6 2014. they are open every day except Mondays from 11H to 20h, and on Tuesdays they are open until 22h Revolution in the parfums business, the British group Designer Parfums founded by a family of Indian origins, the Mehta,has purchase parfums Jean Patou in July 2011 from Procter & Gamble. Now they are on the move to give this brand that once rival that of Chanel the luster it had, so JP is back.
the Zoo de Vincennes will reopen in April 2014? YES; the mythical zoo is back and better than ever for what I saw driving by it last week. light greenhouse of 4.000 square meters of dozens of birds in freedom, lazy on lianas, where the visitor gets deep with the smell and wetness of thousands of tropical plants. Reconstituted steppes. A vivarium and a last cry giraferie. And, of course, more than a thousand animals – 170 species – from the most classic to the most exotic. Landscaping prowess, ode to biodiversity, the Vincennes zoo (now renamed Parc zoologique de Paris). No longer has much to do with the Wildlife Park that has populated the imaginations of generations of small Parisians. The ever-present Grand rock overlooking the new five biozones is still there. Giraffes, lemurs and baboons will resume service.
Motopoetique , the motocycle in motion in the Arts, Feb 21 to April 20 2014 at the musée d’art contemporain de Lyon George de la tour,passage Sainte Croix, at the musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, until February 8 2014, expo Michael Smith , une archeologie de l’humanité, from 4-30 march 2014, musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux
There you go folks, a big task but a work of love to keep the best, me think of these wonderful older posts over the years, These are what I think worth keeping of my older Some news from France series, and I thank you, Again, hope you enjoy this post as I
And remember, happy travels, good health, and many cheers to all !!!
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