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Laurence Jenkell This sculptor, an artist from South of the France, brings us her candy wrappings, from Spring to Summer, along an artistic route at the heart of the 8th district extending from the 8th arrondissement Town Hall up to Etoile passing through the Park Monceau. [More...] RUE CONDORCET The Marquis de Condorcet born in 1743 died in 1794. His real name was Marie-Jean Caritat. He gave his name to a street in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. This man was both mathematician and politician. He wrote the "theory of comets" and the sketch of the "progress of the human spirit". During the revolution of 1789, that he greeted with great enthusiasm he was elected member of the Legislative Assembly and of the Convention. [More...] BALZAC’S HOUSE Balzac’s House opened to the public in 1960. It is a museum dedicated to Honoré de Balzac and his works. One can discover manuscripts and original editions, but also drawings and sculptures representing the author. His Office, as well as part of its furniture, personal items as well as those of Madame Hanska, a Polish admirer who later became his wife, remains unchanged. [More...] LE COLLEGE DES BERNARDINS This is the order of the Cistercians who decided to install, the Bernardino said College in 1246. It will be the main venue for hosting students and for academic studies. In its imposing refectory high columns divided space into three vessels thus creating a perspective that will be broken by light partitions. [More...] Exhibition Center Of Villepinte With its eight multi-purpose halls from 7,100 to 48,000 sq.m., Paris Nord Villepinte hosts numerous events, such as the Maison & Objet home style exhibition and SIAL (the international food industry exhibition). How to get there:It is just a short distance from Roissy Charles de Gaulle International airport and the Le Bourget TGV station. [More...] The Trinity Church The Trinity Church was built in the same style as of Saint-Augustin Church and at the same time. Both were built in September 1851. Theodore Ballu was in charge of its construction that went on for a period of six years (from 1861 to 1867). The church, built in an urban environment, is strongly linked to the Chaussée d’Antin bourgeois area nearby when it began to change during the Hausmannian street works. [More...] 
Paris and Its PassagewaysThe roofed passageways were built as of first half of the XIXth century to shelter wealthy customers of the bad weather. Varied trades were proposed to them. They constitute a whole of commercial galleries traced between the buildings. Work of the Baron Haussmann and the competition of the department stores will lead to the disappearance of most of these passages. [More...] Lost Property N°36, rue des Morillons located in the 15th district is the lost property office of Paris. Objects, that scattered brain owners have lost, can be fished back at that address. [More...] 
The Opéra GarnierThe Opéra Garnier was built under the Second Empire in the process of the urban works that were carried out by Baron Haussmann. It is situated in the ninth district of Paris, at the top of the "Avenue de l’Opéra". It is clearly one of the capital city’s most prestigious ancient monuments, a theatre and a museum at the same time with an impressive area of 11 000 square meters. [More...] 
Saint-Blaise, Charonne Village In ParisThe old village: Located between the Père Lachaise cemetery and Porte de Montreuil, the Saint Blaise district stretches down south to Place Gambetta. This little block has kept, with its square, its church, its small cemetery and its street old names, the remains of a true rural living. [More...] 
Yes indeed, honey is cropped in Paris!Yes indeed, honey is cropped in Paris! Further to large spreads of insect and grass killers, meadows and harvest plants disappearing, the bees that gather pollen and nectar from our rural spaces, have gradually declined in the rural scene. [More...] |