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 !!! Especially my first likes from former travel forum friend Jeannette 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 CXCVII August 1, 2018
The renovation of this great Church of the 9éme arrondissement will begin in 2019. Steeple, lantern towers, porch and roofs it goes, the scaffolding on the facade of the Church of the Trinity ! Currently at the mid-height of the building, it should reach the top of the steeple, at 60 meters, at the end of August . The restoration of the façade which opens on the square, the steeple, the two towers-lanterns arranged on either side of the monument, the porch and the roofs :The great building site of the Trinity which will start in 2019, should be completed in 2023. During the work, the church remains open every day and the masses continue to be celebrated every Sunday at 11h and 19h.
Just in for the Eiffel tower from their official site: “Le 2 août, en raison d’un préavis de grève, l’activité de la tour Eiffel pourrait être perturbée. Visiteurs munis de billets, consultez vos mails pour plus d’information. Suivez l’évolution de la situation sur nos réseaux sociaux et notre site internet”. Meaning there is a possible strike tomorrow August 2nd. The exhibition presents nearly 80 photographs of the years 1945 to 1960, on the theme of the street, and for the most part unpublished, out from the reserves of the Centre Pompidou. A look at this post-war period, seen from the street in several European cities. Sabine Weiss au Centre Pompidou ,expo until October 15 2018 Place Georges-Pompidou ,4éme
About 130 years ago, in 1887, Alphonse Daudet buys the charming mansion below in Draveil, on the banks of the Seine, with its copyrights money. The writer wrote almost the most of his work knowing that he shared his time between his holiday residences and his apartments in Paris. La Maison Alphonse Daudet, rue Alphonse Daudet, 91210, Champrosay – 91210 Draveil . Count about 1h drive, RER D station Ris-Orangis, then 15 minutes walk. The Departmental museum of Stéphane Mallarmé born in 1842, the poet is a teacher of English, his “livelihood obliged”, and has an intense poetic activity. The museum settled in its house on the banks of the Seine, although it also lived in Rue de Rome in the 17éme of Paris. The museum is at 4, Promenade Mallarmé-77870, Vulaines-sur-Seine. Count 1h40 by taking RER B to Melun station then Transilien R to Vulaines-sur-Seine Samoreau, then walk for 20 minutes ,Château de Médan ; Maeterlinck, Belgian author, and Ronsard are roommates at the very beautiful castle of Médan, alongside Cézanne. We are obviously talking about their memoirs that still reign in this former hunting lodge, which was barely saved in the post-war period.Located at 50, rue Pierre Curie – 78670, Medan. One hour from Paris by car, not served by train networks ,he Maison d’Emile Zola while you are in Médan, take the opportunity to discover the house of Emile Zola, who lived from 1878 to 1902 in this House which he was able to buy thanks to the success of his novel L’Assommoir. It was here that he wrote his novels afterwards and led a rural life. Located at 26, rue Pasteur – 78670, Médan .An hour from Paris by car, not served by train networks. The Maison de Chateaubriand, in the Valley of the Wolves, is the place where he fled after his exile from Paris by Napoleon because of his hostility to the first Empire. He will write several of his works, in particular Les Martyrs, the itinerary of Paris in Jerusalem, The adventures of the last Abencerage , and the memoirs of the Tomb, in the Velléda tower.Located at 87 rue de Chateaubriand, but better put in your GPS rue Eugène Sinet. The Maison d’Elsa Triolet-Louis Aragon The couple blossoming in the heart of this 5 hectares park, at the Moulin de Villeneuve. This mill of the late 12C was often the setting and source of inspiration for their writings. Today, the House makes both office of Memory place with the apartments and the tomb of the two writers, a place of research with a library of more than 30 000 volumes and place of support for contemporary artistic creation. Always interesting to take a tour. Located at Moulin de Villeneuve – 78730, Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines. One and a half hours by car, not served by train networks.
The Château de Monte Cristo is Alexandre Dumas who lived in this palace perched on a hill. He bought it in 1846 except that three years later he was riddled with debts and forced to sell this home. Located at Chemin du Haut Ormes-78560, Le Port-Marly. An hour from Paris about: Take the RER A to Saint-Germain-en-Laye and then the bus 259, stop at the station Jaurès
The Maison de Balzac ,he lived in this House of Passy under a nickname “Monsieur Breugnol ” to flee his creditors . The little carousel lasted seven years thanks to a clever ploy: the house had two entrances, in two different streets, rue Raynouard and Rue Berton. Entrance on 47, rue Raynouard – 16éme Metro Passy.
The Musée Jean-Jacques Rousseau Museum is in the Val d’Oise dept 95, we go to meet the writer, musician and philosopher Genévese. It stays at the “Petit Mont-Louis” from 1757 to 1762, fleeing Paris, “City of smoke, noise and mud”( really changed in almost 300 years lol!). He will come out with his Social contract published in 1762. Located at 5, rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau – 95160, Montmorency. About an hour from Paris: Take the Transilien H train at Gare du Nord to the La Barre Ormesson, then the 337 bus to the cemetery of Deuil-la-Barre, then count a 25 minute walk.
The Musée Cocteau Museum; this museum house was the home of the French poet graphic designer, draughtsman, playwright and filmmaker. He will reside there for 17 years, first occasionally, then definitively from the moment he binds himself with his new companion Édouard Derma, far from the tumult of his Parisian life. Located at 15, rue du Lau – 91490, Milly-la-Forêt . At about 2h by car, not served by train networks, The Musée Victor Hugo Museum in the Marais, this is the hotel of Rohan-Guéménée where Victor Hugo lived, which became a museum in 1902. He lived on the second floor from 1832 to 1848, before his exile. To this day, the apartment details the existence of the poet before, during and after this exile. Located at 6, Place des Vosges Metro Chemin Vert or Bréguet-Sabin line 4.
Some news from France CXCVIII August 7, 2018
Kicked off the Champs-Elysées for his Christmas market last year, forced to give up his big wheel place de la Concorde, Marcel Campion bounces back!. He will install his Christmas Market chalets in the Tuileries Garden (Jardin des Tuileries )from November 24 2018 to January 6 2019. A domain that belongs to the Louvre and not to the city of Paris! . The rides on the space Carré des Sangliers on the Seine side (1 000 m2) and the large Esplanade des Feuillants (8 300 m2) are available for events, and the Louvre came through! And to follow suit on Marcel Campion, until August 26, lovers of cotton candy, of rides and thrills have an appointment to the Festival of Tuileries which is held there every summer, for 20 years has therefore (re) installed for the summer its famous Ferris wheel, Cars bumper, a phantom train and the 6g , a merry-go-round at 140 km/h. But also fun animations like archery and a climbing wall. The little ones are not forgotten with a duck fishing and a throws. What a summer of madness in Paris! Festival (Fête) of the Tuileries.Jardin des Tuileries (Iéme).
The sculpture exhibition “Les Sylphides” at the Bossuet Museum in Meaux (my dear late wife Martine native town always remembered) was extended until August 19. In addition to the “Sylphides”, the Bossuet Museum welcomes until September 16, the exhibition of another sculptor whose works pay homage to the female body: Jacques Coquillay and “The feminine ideal, 60 years of creation”. At 5, place Charles de Gaulle; Meaux 77100.
While in the same dept 77 Seine et Marne. The first Air Legend Paris-Villaroche, Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th September, at the aerodrome of Melun-Villaroche. The planes are expected in the sky of Seine-et-Marne during this air meeting on the towns of Montereau-sur-le-Jard, Réau and Limoges-Fourches. One Catalina, an American seaplane, but also a P36, the first De Havilland Vampire Jet, released in 1945, the mythical Corsair, the Messerschmidt 109, the planes of the Battle of Britain: the Spitfire, a Skyraider… Forty-five planes of WWII, some still never seen in the île de France region before, will take the air. Visitors will also attend a demonstration of the French patrol demonstration team on Saturdays and a simple passage on Sundays. At the same time, the public will be able to stroll through a village of exhibitors, do helicopter baptisms and children enjoy inflatable games. Paris-Villaroche Air Legend, Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 September, from 9h to 18h. Melun Airfield,
The capital of the river boating for 161 years, the city of Conflans-Saint-Honorine (Yvelines dept 78!) hosts the Musée de la Batellerie et des Voies Navigables( Museum of the inland waterways). It is in the Chateau de la prieuré, built in the 19C, just a few steps from the Seine river, that the collection rests. The tour begins on the ground floor in the outer courtyard which gathers a large number of ancient objects such as parts of boats, anchors, propellers and other tools showing the evolution of transport boats. In the first room is presented an imposing model of lock that introduces the spectator to maneuvers. To access the first floor of the castle, you have to take the staircase of honor. We then arrive in the best preserved space of the property: The Hall of Honor. Here are presented the means of propulsion used in France and the current technique: pushing. Family, the museum presents Dioramas, staged models. One of them takes the visitor to the Place de Greve, in Paris, in the 18C in a scene representing a water mark, a river boat, of wood, flat-bottomed, without motor. All types of boats that have been able to sail on rivers, rivers or canals of France are exposed on the first floor Musée de la Batellerie et des Voies Navigables , 3, place Jules-Gévelot, in the Seine river at Conflans-Saint-Honorine
Memories of apéros happy hours with friends here and now back on. The emblematic Hôtel Lutétia on the left bank (rive gauche) reopens after four years of work. The address finds restaurants and bars that contributed to forging its legend: La Brasserie , the Orangerie and the Saint-Germain, which opens onto a new patio, the Bar Josephine, with jazz concerts, and an extended lounge of two Smoking Rooms
The Museum of the Orangerie, which offers until August 20th an exhibition entitled “Nymphéas. The American abstraction and the last Monet» ,has since 1922, welcomes, in two oval rooms, the great ensemble of Nymphéas by Claude Monet (eight panels of two meters high and a total length of 91 meters), offered by the painter to the French State. See also, the works of the collection Walter and Guillaume acquired by the French State in 1950 and which brings together 146 works from the 1860’s to the 1930’s: Renoir, Cézanne, Picasso, Matisse, Modigliani, etc etc… To visit preferably from the opening to enjoy the calm and the serenity of the place. Musée de l’Orangerie. Jardin des Tuileries . Place de la Concorde (Iéme).
Some news from France CXCVIIII September 5, 2018
The Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild in the Alpes-Maritime department 06 was the discovery of the Riviera by the Baronne Béatrice Ephrussi de Rothschild in 1905. It was built on the narrow side of the island or presqu’île de Saint-Jean Cap-Ferrat in the Italian Renaissance style. In 7 years of work done by 5 different architects. The interior has rose marble of Verona and the Chinese salon in wood designs copying the imperial palace in Pekin; as well as guarding about 7000 works of arts. All surrounded by nine theme gardens making them look like a flower museum. And my dear late wife Martine, when I met her in Paris worked for the designer company that renovated this villa in 1990-91 !! The office is now gone but it was Kapa Promotions! in the rue d’Hauteville 10éme of Paris. And now you can visit the villa, well already since a few years
If you come to the harbor at Rocheport, you can see the base of the Hermione boat. This is an identical reconstruction of the boat that took the Marquis de La Fayette to the USA to join and help along in the US War of Independance from Great Britain. It took 5 years to built it starting from a model at 1/18 scale! The real boat you will see is 44,2 meters long, 11,21 meters wide, 5,74 meters deep. Anecdote, in 1778 it took several workers only 11 months to built the original, while this one took 18 years! Once in the water it already has done 350 trips with the inaugural trip to the USA in 2015. See it at the Place Amiral-Dupont, Rocheport in department 17 Charente Maritime
The Jardins Albert Kahn in Hauts-de-Seine dept 92 just across from the Seine river. This banker tried to change the world by way of nature and especially all around Japan. He built a village japanese style with two houses ,the minka, a pagoda, a shinto temple, and two symbolic gates around marshes and a prairie reminding us of a golden forest and a Vosgienne forest to remind himself of his origins, born in Marmoutier Bas Rhin dept 67 near the forest of Abreschviller. The garden is at 10 rue du Port, Boulogne-Billancourt,
It was my dear late wife Martine dept 77 Seine-et-Marne. And to add her dear late Grandma Fourré worked here and I got to meet her and travel with her, good wine drinker and love the speed driving !! I knew was in the right kind of family !!! I am telling you about the Menier chocolates of France at 7 boulevard Pierre-Carle, Noisiel, now own by Nestlé. This is known here as the Cathedral of Chocolates on the banks of the Marne river, the Menier family built the empire. All back to 1825 not only for the chocolate per se but because it had theraupetic virtues. By 1893, Menier is the biggest producer in the world! The windmill symbol of the brand was built in 1871. The new building done in 1906 was built by Stephen Sauvestre a collaborator of Gustave Eiffel. There is also, the freezer built in 1884 and modeled after the Baltard covered markets or halles. All a jewel to visit , not to missed to see something uniquely French while in France. It is open to the public two saturdays per month
And back into my old department of the Yvelines 78, we see another national jewel . The Chateau de Monte Cristo, the folly of Alexandre Dumas. On the hills of Montferrands near the old clinic my wife used to go for esthetics , Alexandre Dumas decided to built a castle. After the much succesful Trois Mousquetaires (three muskeeteers) and the Comte de Monte Cristo (count of monte cristo) in 1844 he got his wish. It is describe as a folly of the times of Louis XV but in the style of Louis XIII and with renaissance deco. Under the main door, you see the face of Dumas while the lines on the windows show you his literary pantheon. It is in beautiful Le Port Marly
Some news from France CXCX September 12, 2018
This beautiful vineyard that descends on 1 550 m2 , the slope of the Rue des Saules, in front of the cabaret of the Lapin Agile, was born in 1933 on an idea of the draughtsman Francisque Poulbot and Pierre Labric, mayor of the free town of Montmartre! The Grape Cup of the Clos Montmartre on September 19, rue des Saules; Harvest Festival, placed this year under the sign of peace, from 10 to 14 October throughout the 18éme arrondissement.
The Champs-Elysées will illuminate from November 22nd 2018 to January 8 2019, as every year. It’s a tradition that launches the holiday season in Paris. The luminous curtain of white shades darting to the top of the trees has received, in the last four years, a good welcome. This year the city probably would do the same but with different colors according to city officials. They will unveil the full plan on the forthcoming press conference in October. The opportunity to announce the personality that will launch the magic of Lights will be known! Stay tune
After twenty years of abandonment and silence, the curtain will rise again and the music resonate at La Scala Paris this Tuesday night. At 13, boulevard de Strasbourg (10éme), the mythical Café-concert of the late 19C. Fully covered with a blue night color imagined for La Scala, the room, equipped with two balconies, is fully modular thanks to the bleachers accommodating up to 750 people. And no spectator is more than 20 meters from the stage, also inexhaustible on the 220 variable acoustic panels or the 172 loudspeakers that will offer a Cathedral acoustic sound, the La Scala Paris already offers a programming provided of 450 pieces, concerts , dance or circus performances for his first year. Shows often available in short format at 18h45, after office hours, then at 21h . It will also be a place of ambiance open every day from noon to 1h (1am). An 80 seats restaurant overlooking the boulevard de Strasbourg will be available. La Scala Paris, 13, boulevard de Strasbourg (10éme).
The first Dreyfus museum in France is expected to be open in Médan, (Yvelines 78) in the autumn 2019. The space of 300 m2, located in a wing of the Maison Zola, will be composed of a large hall recounting the story of Alfred Dreyfus, a second with videos and archival documents As well as a third space made up of screens allowing the school to work with the existing databases on the subject.. Creating a Dreyfus museum next to the house Émile Zola takes all its meaning especially because of his involvement in the affair with the publication of his letter j’accuse!, defending Dreyfus. A captain in the French army accused of espionage for the Germans while he was Jewish! It’s gone for fourteen months of work within the Maison André-Derain. It is a matter of renovating the house of the painter, currently in a state of decay. André Derain’s house is designed to host the school of dance and music, as well as conference, reception and exhibition rooms. André Derain, born in Chatou in 1880, is considered one of the pioneers of the fauvism, like Matisse, Braque, or Vlaminck. He had acquired the Roseraie (Rose garden), this house of 550 m2, in 1936 at Chambourcy, Yvelines 78
From Thursday October 4 to Saturday October 14, 2018, Munich famous beer festival, Oktoberfest, is to be held in Paris for the fourth time in a row at the Paris Event Center. 20 Avenue de la Porte de la Villette, La Villette. Many traditional beers tasting including the famous Paulaner Oktoberfest Bier exclusively brewed for Oktoberfest, as well as the Paulaner Müncher Hell or thePaulaner Hefe-Weissbier
The Musée Saint-Raymond is the Museum of the Antiquity of the city. On several floors you can discover the works of the Mediterranean civilisations dating from antiquity but also part of the archaeological site of the city in the basement and numerous Roman statues on the upper floors. The temporary exhibits are pretty cool and easy to access for non-savvy, even kids friendly! Musée Saint – Raymond 1 ter, place Saint-Sernin, Toulouse, and the Musée des Augustins or Augustinian Museum is the Museum of Fine Arts of Toulouse located in the Augustinian convent of the 14C. On the ground floor you can admire Gothic sculptures or the Pardo room. At the back of the cloister, you can access the church where temporary exhibits are installed. And upstairs, you can look at the sculptures and works of the European Schools of painting from the 17C to the 19C . Musée des Augustins at 21, rue de Metz
Some news from France CXCXI September 18, 2018
First some glamour as in Paris, and Chanel. At the Porte Aubervilliers (19éme). The roundabout overlooking the ring road, pose this past Monday night the first stone of the “Fashion Factory” of the prestigious house of Chanel. The building, which will come out by the spring of 2020, between Paris and its neighbor of Seine-Saint-Denis dept 93 Aubervilliers is dedicated to the craft companies that work for the house Chanel. The 25 000 m2 of the future factory of the Porte Aubervilliers. In the long run, more than 600 artisans should work there
The Villa Viardot in Bougival (78) received Saturday morning a donation from the French lottery games (FDJ). The mansion occupied in the 19C by the most famous singer of her time, Pauline Viardot. The walls, the roof, everything that has sheltered the love story of Russian novelist Ivan Turgenev and Pauline Viardot, is indeed in a pitiful state. In the salons of the mansion, Daudt, Flaubert, Goncourt, Sand, Zola, Berlioz, Wagner or Saint-Saëns came to speak music, literature and even politics. The greatest European artists of the 19C have passed here. It is on its way to be renovated but more money is needed. Centre Européen de Musique de Bougival (CEM) or European Music Center of Bougival (CEM) a music pole of excellence with European influence on the lands of Georges Bizet, it will become a place entirely dedicated to the composer and Carmen , the most played opera in the world he had composed in this villa on the banks of the Seine river in 1874. The neighboring dacha of Ivan Turgenev, which hosts the museum of the Russian writer, is also associated with the project.
The houses of the artists in Paris or not far from Paris. All these writers, painters, sculptors, singers or even French architects who disappeared years ago, are still immortal today. We continue to discover their works, to admire their talent, to learn about their lives. And we can also visit the mansions of these famous artists, from the inside for some, from the outside for others, and even explore those transformed into a museum. Some of my favorites over the years have been:
Maison de Victor Hugo : One of the most famous artist’s houses to visit in the center of Paris, on the second floor of the Hôtel de Rohan-Guéménée on the sublime Place des Vosges. Victor Hugo will stay there 16 years from 1832 to 1848. This house is now a monographic museum where you can admire its period furniture or its bed and discover new exhibitions regularly. 6, Place des Vosges. Maison de Balzac:Direction Passy, this time it is in the heart of the 16éme that the author of the human comedy lived almost 7 years. The Balzac Pavilion houses a museum dedicated to its life and a library of more than 23 000 monographs and periodicals, numerous documentary files and archival holdings. Some works from Balzac’s personal collection are also exhibited in the work cabinet. Located at 7, rue Raynouard. The Maison Le Corbusier (Roche): We remain in the 16éme, where is the apartment-Atelier Le Corbusier on the 7th and 8th floors of the Molitor building, built by himself and his cousin Pierre Jeanneret. Le Corbusier will have lived there from 1934 to 1965. After a two-year restoration, the studio apartment, manifesting its architectural thought, has reopened its doors to the public since the end of August. Located at 10, Doctor-Blanche Square.
The Maison d’Edith Piaf: In the 16éme, Boulevard Lannes, not far from the Bois de Boulogne, the Môme(kid)last lived from 1953 to 1963 in an apartment at street level with her companion Jacques Pills. This apartment has witnessed the parade of the greatest Parisian composers of the time. This is where Edith Piaf composed non je ne regrette rien (no I don’t regret anything). Located at 67 bis, Boulevard Lannes Not a museum now private, At Giverny, we can visit the charming colorful Maison de Claude Monet where he painted his famous series Les Nymphéas. The flower gardens of this house make it more charming. Reading room, workshop lounge, kitchen, private apartments, the whole house is visited. 84, rue Claude Monet , 27620, Giverny. The Maison de Van Gogh: Direction Auvers-sur-Oise, at the Auberge Ravoux, where the painter Vincent Van Gogh stayed a few months from May to July of 1890 in a modest room of 7 m2. It is in this room No. 5 that the painter will have ended his days. The suicide room has remained intact since July 29, 1890, and has never been rented again, by superstition. Located at 52-56, rue du Général de Gaulle – 95430 Auvers-sur-Oise. The Maison de Gainsbourg : The House of Gainsbourg still is not visited, but it is however a cult place of pilgrimage for the biggest fans of the singer of Bonnie and Clyde. It is rue Verneuil, in the 6éme, that one can admire these graffiti, drawings and other proofs of love made by many lovers of the French song that dress the facade of the house. Located at 5 bis, rue Verneuil . the daughter Charlotte try to create a museum but still not. The Maison de Dalida at Rue d’Orchampt (18éme) on the heights of Montmartre is a special 1900-style hotel that the singer Dalida bought in the 1960’s. She lived 25 years in this oasis of calm in the middle of the city. The view of all Paris is sublime and the wings of the Moulin Rouge are visible. The place Dalida is also not far from this house. Located at 11 bis, rue Orchampt .The Maison de Brassens: The Villa Santos-Dumont, hidden in a charming rural impasse covered with greenery of the 15éme, was the home of Georges Brassens from 1968 until his death in 1981. He wrote some of his most famous songs, such as the le Gorille (Gorilla), Le fossoyeur (Gravedigger) and Margot. Located at 42, Villa Santos-Dumont. Musée Rodin: Now the flagship museum housing the most beautiful works of Auguste Rodin, it is in this sumptuous 18C mansion in the 7éme that lived the sculptor and his famous mistress Camille Claudel. The gardens of the house also host other major works. Located at 79, rue de Varenne.
The Musée Eugène Delacroix: The painter will have lived the last years of his life, between 1857 and 1863, in these apartments close to the Church of Saint-Sulpice. He is also responsible for painting one of the chapels of the Church. The apartment, the Delacroix workshop and the lush garden are to be visited in the 6éme arrondissement located at 6, rue de Furstenberg. Musée Gustave Moreau : This is a building of the 9éme arrondissement transformed into a museum by the painter Gustave Moreau. It was in his lifetime, in 1903, that this mansion in the bourgeois interior and the Louis XVI decoration exhibited his works. The museum retains a total of about 14 000 works. Located at 14, rue de La Rochefoucauld. Musée Ary Scheffer : This French painter of Dutch origin considered one of the most representative artists of Romanticism lived in the heart of the Nouvelle Athénes, below the Butte Montmartre. On the edge of the garden courtyard, he had two workshops built, one to work, the other to perceive. Today we find the most refined collections at the Museum of Romantic life. His museum is at 16 rue Chaptal. Musée Bourdelle The studio apartment of Antoine Bourdelle, French sculptor, was transformed into a museum. It is in the district of Montparnasse that we find the numerous works in bronze, marble and plaster of the painter, but also a part of his personal collections. He lived almost 45 years in this house. The painter will draw several projects of buildings, until imagining a museography, but the museum won’t be realized in his lifetime. Located at 18, rue Antoine-Bourdelle (15éme)
Some news from France CXCXII September 19, 2018
The Château Ancy-le-Franc , gem of the Renaissance, located between Tonnerre and Montbard, in the heart of Burgundy, built between 1542 and 1550 ,was in dismal condition, it was raining inside and the decorations painted by hand, originals dating for some of the first school of Fontainebleau, were very degraded. The acquisition, in 1999 of the Castle and its 50 hectares of park by a private company might have save it. The sumptuous room of Diane, so named in honor of Diane de Poitiers, favorite of King Henry II and sister-in-law of Antoine III of Clermont-Tallard, who built the castle. will restore luster to the romantic part of the park, arranged in the 18C by one of the descendants of Louvois , Minister of War of Louis XIV, who had acquired the estate in 1684.
The Dordogne valley, the Château de Montal in the Lot, is known for having hosted in WWII, the painting of Leonardo da Vinci, the Mona Lisa, threatened in Paris by the Nazi advance. What is less known is Auguste Rodin’s share of the restoration of this Renaissance masterpiece, which he visited several times. Everything starts in 1908 built by Jeanne de Balsac around 1519, Montal celebrates the humanist virtues of its time by a subtle iconography. Maurice Fenaille gathers sculptures and friezes scattered around and in 1913, he donated his castle to the State, subject to a usufruct for him and his children. As part of the exhibition entitled “Rodin, Fenaille, Matruchot, Portrait of a Renaissance” (from November 12 2018 to June 16, 2019) The Rodin Museum, which is rare, has agreed to lend eight works by Rodin including a bust of Madame Fenaille. An ensemble to which is added a portrait of the sculptor by Camille Claudel. Château de Montal. Saint-Jean-Lespinasse
This is the hotel event of this year, entry in the 8éme arrondissement. We had always known since 1886, the Maison Fauchon, at 16 Place de la Madeleine (and so many times walked by it and shop on way to my work!!!). Here is now, on the other side of the Church de la Madeleine, a hotel Fauchon. Except here, at number 11 in the famous place de la Madeleine, we enter through the little door. The big entry, the one that opens on the reception, is located at 4, Boulevard Malesherbes.
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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