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, CCXXXIII June 5, 2019
The dept store Printemps, meanwhile, began to reinstall the gates that closed the historic building located at the corner of Boulevard Haussmann and Rue du Havre (coming out from the Gare St Lazare !). The grilles were installed in 1881 during the rebuilding of the store created in 1864 by Jules Jaluzot and his wife Augustine, and ravaged by a violent fire. They were then abandoned in 1930. Visible until now by the agents in charge of the maintenance of the department store or the groups during the guided visits, these works will be able to be admired by the customers and the walkers as soon as the doors of the store are closed, at 20h, starting in October 2019
They will soon roam the soft grass of the valleys of Azerbaijan. Freely!. Three European bisons, born in Thoiry Zoological Park (Yvelines dept 78) , were selected as part of a reintroduction program in Azerbaijan led by WWF, almost a century after the official disappearance of the species in the wild. Present throughout Europe, including in France until the 18C, this direct cousin, even if smaller of the American bison, had undergone the full whip the extension of the agricultural zones and the reduction of its natural habitat. They will definitely be left free on the wooded slopes of the Shahdag Nature Park, not far from the borders of Russia and Georgia. Thoiry zoo had already participated in four reintroduction operations in Europe during the last ten years: three in Romania in 2009 and 2015 and one in the Bialowieza forest in Poland in 2009. After the three animals had left Azerbaijan, the zoo still has nine individuals in its enclosures. Wonderful zoo!
Notre-Dame Cathedral, an American passion. Americans, who had long supported the maintenance of the cathedral, have been particularly busy since the fire. But on April 26, 2019 some 2,500 Americans, of all ages and faiths, gathered under the Byzantine-inspired mosaic cupolas of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington DC, all feeling a little French. The success of this evening of support, hastily organized by the French Embassy and several associations, including the Friends of Notre-Dame and the French-American Cultural Foundation, confirmed the intense emotion aroused on this side of the Atlantic by the disaster. Oh yes we will rebuilt, thank you USA!!!
To celebrate the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci , the Condé Museum in the Domaine de Chantilly presents an unpublished exhibition entitled “The Mona Lisa naked”, until 6 October 2019. It is around this unknown and iconic work, true archetype of universal beauty and ideal in its time a cardboard (or a quilted drawing used to postpone a composition on a panel, 74.8 cm high and 56 cm of width), which is part of the permanent collection of the Condé Museum. “Leonardo da Vinci or his workshop: “The Mona Lisa”, circa 1510-1515 – charcoal and white lead on paper” This drawing is a rare and fragile board preparatory to a painting. It represents a model, probably ideal (between the feminine and the masculine) borrowing the pose of the Mona Lisa of the Louvre. Recent scientific analyzes have shown that this work was performed by a leading artist in Leonardo da Vinci’s studio: there is also a good chance that it will be the artist himself. This drawing is the most enigmatic work in the Condé Museum’s collection. At the time of its acquisition at a price of gold in 1862 by Henry of Orleans, the Duke of Aumale, it passed for a preparatory drawing of the painter for the execution of the painting of the Hermitage, in Saint Petersburg, also given for a Leonard Da Vinci at the time. Then both were disallowed, relegated to the rank of workshop copies. Friends of the castle we are and its wonderful !
Some news from France, CCXXXIIII June 12, 2019
The mayor (PS) of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, wants to put a boost to turn the BP (boulevard périphérique) into an urban boulevard. It wants to quickly implement the lowering of the speed of 70 to 50 km / h and the establishment of a lane reserved for clean vehicles and carpooling, two emblematic recommendations of the report of the information mission and evaluation (MIE) put on debate this past Tuesday at the Paris Council. This axis used by more than 1.2 million vehicles per day for an average daytime speed of 39.7 km / h. Ok so again, no solution is a great solution, Paris needs vehicules to survive and she is destroying, their own records show the number of usages and the speed limit even below what they are recommending!! And how they are going to replace all this driving, the land is expensive, and the public transport is also saturated. Anyway I do not take the BP too crowded lol! Go into the portes ,gates of Paris in the side streets you advance better lol! Ana should do what Manuel did go back to Spain!!!
Now , this is something good done by the region and Valérie Pécresse is right on ! The cardboard metro ticket, which has been part of the Parisian landscape for nearly 120 years, is destined to disappear by 2021. To replace it, users will have the choice between smart cards or contactless solutions via their smartphone. . Starting this Wednesday, transport users in Ile-de-France can buy a new pass called Navigo Easy (cost 2€) in the counters. The Navigo Easy badge is not nominative, the buyer can give it or lend it. But beware, it cannot be used by more than one traveler at a time.And for those traveling outside Paris? Ile-de-France Mobilités (the body that govern this by Mme Pécresse) is preparing the Navigo Liberté +, which will be marketed in November.
The “Ruche” or hive of the 15éme arrondissement is among the 120 or so sites in France that will benefit from the next Heritage Lotto drawing!. In addition with the will of the Stéphane Bern mission to preserve bees or biodiversity. La Ruche is the nickname that Alfred Boucher, an acknowledged sculptor of the early 20C and patron, had given to the incredible cité d’artistes or city of artists he had built in 1902, on the southern edge of Paris in what has now become the Passage de Danzig. Alfred Boucher rented them, at a low price, to his fellow artists , often forgetting to ask rent to the less fortunate of them. The greatest names of the Parisian art scene of the time succeeded one another, from Fernand Léger to Chagall, passing by Fujita or Soutine This is the only site retained in the Val-d’Oise dept 95 but it is also the first. The theater hidden under the castle of La Roche Guyon will benefit from the fallout of the Heritage Lotto as well!. Designed in the late 18C, this troglodyte theater would have worked for two centuries before being abandoned. it will be necessary to wait until the year 2020 because it depends on the sale of the tickets of the lotto, specifies the Heritage Foundation The sums collected will then be divided among the selected projects according to the financing needs expressed. This time, 121 monuments will be renovated thanks to this lottery!! Great news indeed!!
Some 3,500 drawings and 650 paintings from the end of the 16C to the beginning of the 20C. But also a documentary fund of great wealth and a complete library. The exceptional private collection of Pierre Rosenberg, former president and director of the Louvre Museum and member of the French Academy, is now in the hands of the department of Hauts-de-Seine (92). And will be partly highlighted in a Musée du Grand-Siècle (great century museum), in the 17éme arrondissement. The heart of the Rosenberg collection, which will be born in Saint-Cloud, on the site of the Caserne Sully barracks! This museum project is a complete rewrite of the copy planned until then for the future of the Sully barracks. Because the site of 1.8 ha, located at the entrance of the park of Saint-Cloud, was supposed to accommodate the departmental archives on 13 000 m² in the building Charles X and a student residence of 7 700 m²
Auvers-sur-Oise, “really, it’s gravely beautiful,” wrote the painter Vincent Van Gogh to his brother Theo on May 21, 1890. Nearly 130 years later, the impression remains the same, indeed it is a must to visit. As soon as you leave the station, Vincent Van Gogh’s imprint is obvious. You just have to cross the rue du Général-de-Gaulle to go back in time with the Daubigny garden. Next door, in the park with his name, the author of “The starry night” stands, the look on the horizon, his equipment on the back. The gardens (some open to visit) accompany you to the rue de Paris, at the top of which stands the Church Notre-Dame-de-l’Assomption, Romanesque-Gothic building, now known worldwide through the exposed painting at the Musée d’Orsay. At the end of rue Gachet, still on the hillside, the gates of Dr. Gachet’s house open onto an intriguing garden. Just before finding the rue du General-de-Gaulle, Van Gogh leaves us there, at the Ravoux Inn, his last home. He died there on July 29, 1890, surrounded by Dr. Gachet and his brother Theo. The latter rests next to the famous painter in the cemetery located at the top of the hill, surrounded by fields.Van Gogh’s house shows on the first floor of the Auberge Ravoux, a room of 7 m2 remained in the still of the time. Only a chair is lit by light from a small skylight. It is in this room n ° 5 that Van Gogh lived his last days. The place is at 52, rue du General-de-Gaulle
Some news from France, CCXXXV June 21, 2019
The Jardin des Tuileries garden, managed by the Grand Louvre on state property.. Already, this winter, Marcel Campon had succeeded in setting up his Christmas market, having been put out of the Champs-Elysées by mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo. This summer, new snub at the mayor of Paris, he installs the Grande Roue or Ferris wheel of the Pl de la Concorde. A ride of 60 meters high with its 48 pods that will make its first round this Friday night (tonight) at an inaugural evening (which proceeds will be given for the fight against homophobia), and until August 25. At the beginning of the week, the justice was partly right in canceling the indictment of the mayor of Paris who was suspected of having favored the “King of Fairgrounds”, during the process of awarding the location of the place of the Concorde for the Ferris wheel. In addition, last May, he was able to demonstrate, thanks to a map of 1828, that the site on which was placed his wheel was not land of the City …
The L’Apothicairerie Royale or Royal Apothecary of Saint-Germain-en-Laye can be visited every Saturday. The opportunity for the public to discover this superb collection of earthenware pots decorated with blue motifs, glass jars and boxes of medicinal plants Located at the Villa Eugénie-Désoyer ,Jardin des Arts, 3, rue Henri IV. And the Grand Bal masque of the Château de Versailles will be tomorrow with 2,500 revelers are expected this Saturday, from 23h30, for the grand ball masked!. The director, Hakim Ghorab, has imagined six artistic paintings that will dishevel. See it at the gardens of the Orangery. The Collegiate Church of Crécy-la-Chapelle, bright of 800 years is celebrating. It is at the Seine-et-Marne dept 77 east of Paris, the religious building celebrates eight centuries of existence with a cycle of reinforced tours and a medieval festival this weekend of June 22-23, 2019.
Some basic numbers here: Emergency numbers: police rescue: 17; European emergency number: 112; firefighters: 18, samu (ambulance): 15. bank lost or stolen credit card: tel 0 892 705 705 In the case of a physical assault, or theft the Police/ agent will also give you a written document allowing you to be examined at the Medical-Judicial Emergency (open 24 hours a day – 7 days a week): 1, Place du Parvis de Notre Dame, 75004. Metro Cité (Line 4), RER B St-Michel – Notre Dame. Tel:+33 (0) 1 42 34 82 85/29. An official certificate will be established and added to your file. An investigation will then be opened to find the perpetrator or perpetrators. Use common sense counts the most.
Some news from France, CCXXXVI June 26, 2019
This is summer here already and it shows with temps going way up. Of course, nothing to do with climate change it happened most every year since records are kept in 1711! So says the meteo experts. I am in Brittany so the ocean waters and the peninsula environment cushions the heat where we will get to 34C in Paris they will get to 38C! Worse tomorrow. Right now is 27C (about 87F ) in my neck of the woods by tomorrow is expected to go to 34C (94F). In Paris, right now is about 32C (91F) tomorrow should go to 35C (95F); roughly. Not too bad it happened once in a while this year it took us in June! This time in 1990 it was 28C in Paris,, same in Versailles! And this site tells us that in 1994 in 24 and 25 June, there were temps all over of 30C with maximum of 33C in Paris
For the first time, vehicles with a Crit’Air 3 sticker (mine is a 2 good! )will be affected by the ban on driving in a perimeter located inside the A86 around greater Paris. In the event of non-compliance by prohibited vehicles, the fine in force is a third-class contravention: 68 euros for a light vehicle, 135 euros for a truck. Despite the differentiated traffic, a level of traffic jams “exceptional” In Ile-de-France region , kilometers of traffic jams add up since 6h (6am). The arrival on the outer ring from the A1 is very complicated nowdays! Of course and it will get worse thanks to the tactics of the mayor of Paris.
150 years after their first description in the West, the first two specimens reported in France have been exposed for a few days at the National Museum of Natural History, 5éme arrondissement or district of Paris. The snout of the young panda exposed behind the window, at the Museum of Natural History 150 years after the first description, in the West, of this “big black and white bear”, the first two specimens, brought back to France by Father David in 1869, have been exposed for a few days in the hall of endangered and extinct species. Grande galerie de l’évolution (Great Gallery of Evolution), 36, rue Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire
In my beloved Yvelines an old reliable UGC reinvents cinema at Parly 2 shopping center. With 12 theaters and 2,200 seats, the new UGC Ciné Cité is offering, from this Wednesday, a new showcase for the 7th art at the Parly II Le Chesnay-Rocquencourt shopping center. The all-glass entrance hall visible from the center car park is worth enough the visit; This was our favorite cinema when in Versailles as the cities are just a street over.
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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