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, CCXLIII September 5, 2019
The Saint-Lazare train station, a must-see for users of the L and J lines, has finally been equipped with validation gates. With one main objective: to fight against the fraud, which represents 63 M € of loss in gain in Ile-de-France region each year. 140 new generation porticos were therefore installed, cordoning off the station on all these accesses: under the arcades, on the transversal platform, the undergrounds and the street access to Rome. It was the last of the big Parisian stations not to be equipped with it. The installation of anti-fraud gates continues in Ile-de-France. Thirty-three other Île-de-France stations will benefit from this new equipment by 2021, ie 1,800 turnstiles replaced in total.
The Théâtre de la Ville is moving to the Place d’Italie. The mythical theater of the Place du Châtelet (1éme) is installed in the 13éme art room, in the basement of the centre commercial Italie-2. (shopping center
Real estate: at more than 10,000 € per m2 in Paris, families are fleeing the heart of the capital. Nearly 60,000 Parisians left Paris between 2011 and 2016. Mostly families pushed to the periphery by soaring property prices. And not only Paris ,also at + 61% in Bordeaux, + 55% in Lyon, + 39% in Nantes, + 34% in Lille and Toulouse, + 31% in Rennes … According to Meilleursagents.com, And this is due to less available spaces due to restrictions on rentals bureaucracy
In Seine et Marne 77 at my beloved Meaux Julien Rappeneau, the director of “Fourmi” (Ant) who was released yesterday Wednesday including actor François Damiens, presented the day before the UGC feature film shot in part in the town. Julien Rappeneau, director of the cinema Mathieu Nicolas and the president of the film club Jérôme Tisserand, premiered his film “Fourmi” at the UGC Majestic. The cinema here that I came first with my dear late wife Martine on her native town !
Some news from France, CCXLIIII September 15, 2019
Lapérouse. This mythical address, which covered the secrets of Victor Hugo to Orson Welles via Michel Houellebecq, Serge Gainsbourg and François Mitterrand, benefits from a renovation as discreet as recent. The front door is small, you must bend to avoid rubbing the ceiling with the top of your skull. You learn by the way that the expression “to hit the bell” comes from the very low architectural configuration of the lounges of this old inn opened in 1766. The men bumped their heads regularly going from one room to another. When you enter the bar, on the ground floor, you have the distinct feeling of entering history You go past the private rooms, envious, before discovering the restaurant room. The ceiling is low, as expected, but covered with a celestial fresco that carries you away. Lapérouse, 51, quai des Grands-Augustins, 6éme.
Rochefort, in the Charente-Maritime, a wonderful town to visit away from Paris. At about 3h30 time from Paris deserves more than a pause on the road to ïle d’Oleron.You go for the Corderie Royal, the International Center for the Sea, located in the heart of the arsenal of Rochefort. You can spend the whole day there, thanks to a single ticket. Start with the visit of the famous Hermione, identical replica of the frigate of the Marquis of La Fayette that took him to the USA
Something wonderful for the whole family we have enjoyed over the years with the boys in younger age. Now a new house haunted catacombs way, populated by corpses, crossed by a cold wind, where the walls collapse and the lights darken … An initiatory course led by Dr. Cérébrus, littered with vampires and undead … If your children are already thinking about Halloween, they should love “Fear on the Park”, the flagship event of All Saints day in Parc Asterix, from October 5 to November 3. There are also 47 attractions to put your head upside down and forget that tomorrow … there is school!!
The Yves Saint Laurent fashion house will inaugurate its first coffee shop. called Café Saint Laurent, this new canteen will be open today! September 15th, in time for Paris Fashion Week. Nestled in the heart of the first arrondissement, and just a stone’s throw from the Saint Laurent boutique, this new café will immerse you in the fancy and minimalist world of the famous house with sweets all more enticing than the others. Café Saint Laurent Rive Droite at the corner of rue du 29 Juillet and 213, rue Saint-Honoré
Some news from France, CCXLV September 19, 2019
The Tour Eiffel icone and symbol of Paris was built in two years, from 1887 to 1889, It is covered with 17 layers of paint. To protect the tower from corrosion, it must be painted. But painting is eroding and you have to go back every seven years on average. Problem: all this painting weighs 50 tons. A construction site should soon completely strip the monument, before repainting it with a lighter layer.Again!
The Opera Garnier ,9éme arrondissement has used the finest crafts to restore its original luster to the prestigious lodge. The Emperor’s lodge, built for Napoleon III, the patron of the prestigious Palais Garnier, located on the left of the stage and opposite that of the Empress, has regained its original brilliance. While “La Traviata” triumphs on the stage of the Paris Opera, the monumental lodge served by a staircase and preceded by a guard room, antechamber and lounges, proudly displays its magnificence. It was Mac Mahon who inaugurated it in 1875, Napoleon III had to go into exile five years before the end of the construction of the Palais Garnier. The curtains were sewn entirely by hand and the beech benches have been cleared, repaired and upholstered. The trimmings will be done in early 2020.
Robbery at the Château Vaux-le-Vicomte where Patrice and Cristina de Vogüé, a couple who restored the luster of the castle. The 91-year-old count has owned the place since 1967. With his wife Cristina, they opened the site to the public a year later. The perpetrators acted before dawn. This morning, shortly after 4h (4AM), six burglars, hooded and gloved, have entered the castle of Vaux-Le Vicomte, Seine-et-Marne dept 77 through a window. The thugs surprised in their sleep the couple, tied them up before forcing them to give them the code of the safe. They seized jewelry and cash. The damage, being consolidated, would be around two million euros The Castle, meanwhile, remains open despite the robbery having taken place in a private wing.
Built in 1920 on the plans of Clamart train station in the Hauts-de-Seine (92), Villennes-sur-Seine (78) train station is known for its decoration and its large glass roof. It is also one of the rare examples of Art Nouveau train station in Île-de-France. I have taken this line several time and the town is very nice indeed not just the station.
And last but not least my town is in the news!! A Belgian air force F16 airplane crash off the d16 road between Landaul and Pluvigner on a wheat field of the village of Le Guernic chopping some section of a roof with people in the house! The two pilots were save even if one landed on high tension electrical cables of 250K volts! The F16 was on a routine training flight un armed from Florennes , Belgium to the naval base of Lann-Bihoué near Lorient (which also serves as a commercial airport). There is a security perimeter under investigation and the road D16 direction Landevant is closed. Well I live in the other direction so we are safe and sound and ready lol!
Some news from France, CCXLVI September 23, 2019
It is all over the news here so a perennial travel site is now gone. I remember when used them in America many neons ago. Thomas Cook, the oldest tour operator in the world, created in 1841, had no choice but to enter “liquidation with immediate effect” in total, some 600,000 tourists would be concerned. In the immediate future, the authorities will have to organize massive repatriations of their nationals on holiday with Thomas Cook: 150 000 British, 10 000 French
Next Saturday, October 5 will be held the 18th edition of the Nuit Blanche (or white night) organized by the City of Paris. Nuit Blanche in Paris will be a metropolitan event this time. Starting at 19h time is already at the party, with the departure from the Place de la Concorde from twelve monumental works accompanied by musicians and DJs to the Place de la Bastille. Tin-Tin’s big-tattooed tank, the Zerep company, “muchos kilometros” and his crazy squad populated by camels and Cadillacs or Daniel Buren’s, composed of authentic mirrors of buildings . In the perspective of the Olympic games of 2024, the portion of the periphery of the Porte des Lilas at the Porte de la Villette is transformed into a velodrome, accessible by bike and vélib ‘. Do not miss Copacabana Machine Sex in Aubervilliers, a mobile nightclub in which robots wank sensually on electro. The most athletic ones will join the Grande Traversée, two races crossing some forty institutions, from the Invalides to the Grand Palais, passing by Beaubourg, the Louvre, etc it will be a blast so if available be there or be square!
And at last, this is nice for Paris, I love them! The old “1900” style kiosks will come alive again in the streets of Paris. Four Haussmann style kiosks dedicated to the sale of flowers. They will be located on Square d’Estienne d’Orves 9éme, 21 Avenue General Sarrail 16éme, 30 Avenue Corentin Cariou 19éme, and 6, Boulevard de Charonne 20éme.. Eventually, other old kiosks will reopen to offer further sales activities: 25 in total. Newsstands there are about 220 kiosks in Paris installed. At the end of December, 300 will be established. And will have about thirty to install during the first quarter of 2020!
By the end of 2019, the management of the Louvre Museum will impose the reservation for the purchase of tickets. , the Louvre requires to book in advance its ticket! . It would now be impossible for Parisian to forage his heritage at the lunch break! Or to improvise a trip, like one goes out to the fields! All this so that boisterous magmas, who follow a flag hour, could grin their uncultured by immortalizing themselves before the Mona Lisa! Especially since these herrings come only for that, not even knowing that the museum has something else!! More seriously, why not adopt the system of India, which have an entry for tourists and another for locals? Or circumscribe the Mona Lisa to a single room, charging double? The calves would only see fire and the Parisians would find the Louvre of Belphégor. Exactly too crowded and too many flashes indeed lol
Some news from France, CCXLVII September 27, 2019
The Palais des Tuileries or Tuileries Palace now destroyed, whose construction began in 1564 under the leadership of Catherine de Medici, at the site previously occupied by one of three tile factories established in 1372 next door from the Quinze-Vingts Hospital, not far from the old Louvre, and where André Le Nôtre was born in the now garden he later created!. Expanded over time and unified with the Louvre Palace in 1860, it had a huge facade of 266 meters long, and about 328 meters if we count the pavilions of Flore and Marsan that remain, and includes the museum of decorated arts now, and it was the focal point of the great historical axis of Paris with the perspective in row of the Avenue des Champs-Élysées, the Place de la Concorde and the Jardin des Tuileries conceived from this palace. It was the royal residence in Paris of many sovereigns including Henry IV, Louis XIV, Louis XV, Louis XVI ,but also Louis XVIII, Charles X then Louis Philippe, and imperial such as Napoleon I and Napoleon III. Meanwhile it has also been the seat of the First Republic and the Consulate. Its role of official seat of the French power was interrupted by its destruction by voluntary fire of the communards on May 23, 1871. The ruins of the Tuileries Palace were finally demolished in 1883, the presidents of the Third Republic then being installed in the Palais de l’Elysee. However since 2002, a national committee for the reconstruction of the Tuileries or Comité National pour la Reconstruction des Tuileries campaigned for the identical reconstruction of the Tuileries Palace, with funds raised from private companies, and individual donors. The cost was estimated at 350 million euros according to the Committee. The Mayor of Paris, Jacques Chirac; who had signed an agreement for the private reconstruction with a land lease period of 99 years still in effect!And I am glad to be directly involved!!! (Gone now was the Treasurer!)
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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