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| Corbusier 280 Boulevard Michelet, Marseille, 13008 |  |
Le Corbusier's most influential late work was his first significant postwar structure—the UnitÈ d'Habitation in Marseilles of 1947-52. The giant, twelve-story apartment block for 1.600 people is the late mode... more
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| Jardin des Tuileries Rue de Rivoli, Paris, 75001 | |
The great Louis XIV resided at the Tuileries Palace while his chateau, Versailles, was under construction. When he left, the building was abandoned, used only as a theater, until the return of the ill-fated royal family ... more
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| Palais-Royal Place du Palais-Royal, Paris, 75001 | |
During breakfast one morning, we became engaged in a conversation about the differences between how things were in France when Mitterrand was in power and how they are now with Chirac. The conversation then led to the hi... more
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| Rock en Seine Paris | |
Last time I saw Faithless was at V2006. Of their many assets, the ability to get a crowd worked into a frenzy is their most powerful. Maxie Jazz performs like a whirling dervish. All the more remarkable when you consider... more
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| Cassis Quai des Moulins, Cassis, 13260 | |
Cassis is a delightful village about a half hour by train from Marseilles. When I was living in Aix, this is where we'd go on a weekend or afternoon to spend time by the Mediterranean. The beach can become a bit cramped,... more
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| Canal du Midi Port de l'Embouchure, Toulouse, 31000 | |
| Canal St-Martin Rue Lafayette, (rue du Faubourg du Temple), Paris, 75010 | |
Long a working-class neighborhood with an edge, the Canal St-Martin is the latest quartier to be reinvented by artists and young bohemians. Built in the early 1800s for industrial transport, the canal is spanned by hump-... more
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| Cathedrale Notre-Dame de Paris 6 Place du Parvis-de-Notre-Dame, (Quai aux Fleurs), Paris, 75004 | |
Notre-Dame is now viewed as one of the key defining examples of the style which was to become known as Ile-de-France Gothic, by the early nineteenth century few Parisians valued their medieval past very highly. Interest ... more
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| Opera Garnier 8 Rue Scribe, Paris, 75009 | |
All you loyal readers of my Nürnberg page (thanks again to both of you!) will recall that there I talked about the composer Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787) and his opera Iphigenie in Aulis, composed in 1774. Here i... more
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| Negresco 37, Promenade des Anglais, Nice, 06000 | |
This is Nice's luxury hotel par excellence. Built in 1912 by Romanian Henri Negresco, both the architecture and the beautiful pink dome that matches the sunset as it melts into the sea, give you an enchanting glimpse of ... more
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