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Comte de Buffon was a French mathematician, biologist and scientist left behind an extraordinary cultural heritage. The first place to visit and connected with Buffon is the Jardin des Plantes, the botanical garden south of the Seine in Paris.
There visitors will see a special tree planted by Buffon in 1785 in the Jardin des Plantes. The scientist was also very powerful person in the court of King Louis XV, and as well as he dominated in shaping our knowledge of the natural world.
Just next to the garden is sitted The Grande Galerie de l’Evolution in the museum of National d’ Histoire Naturelle. The building is 19 century constructure with a translucent glass ceiling and galleries supported by handsome row columns.Some of the exhibitions display the excitement and appeal of early natural history.
So a better place to get known Buffon’s life is his country home, a little over an hour from Paris by the high speed train. Actually Buffon spent half in the year in the city (Paris) and other half in his country-village Montbard, where wrote Histoire Naturelle for which he become famous. In Montbard is good to visit The Forge, which Buffon built and still survives.
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Artus is a cosy-mini hostel sitted just in the very heart of the oldest neighborhoods of Paris nearby to many art cafes and galleries.
The Artus Hostel has an unique modern character with artworks all over inside which catch the eye of the guests. The hostel has very spacious and luxurious rooms furnished by only natural materials such as stucco, marble and Murano glass. The amenities are Wifi, air-conditioning, minibar, private digital safe, flat-screen TV, satellite, telephone, concierge service, room-service, storage.
Fot the food lovers the Artus offers a generous buffet breakfast, which is served from 7:00 am to 11:00 am. At the bar visitors will find a large selection of waters, Bordeaux wines and Champagne. There is also fitness room with sauna, shower and sport machines.
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Bar Kong is superb modern, classical bar-restaurant situated in France (Paris, rue du Pont Neuf). Inside everything is made very stylish. There are a sumo lavatory attendant, a fluorescence, golden sofas, a field of orchids, epidermic tables, a lovis XV DJ, a very zen pebble rug, a jap brica brac, one arm chairs, a dishevelled geisha, punk walls and the most beautiful view of Paris.
Restaurant open 7 days a week from 10:30 am to 2 am. Happy hour from 6 pm to 8 pm. Musical bar from 10:30 pm till close, sunday brunch.Valet parking available evenings and car park belle jardiniere, rue du pont neuf. Visa, Mastercard, american express, tickets restaurants are available.
Beatrice Ardisson is the music designer at Bar Kong. She brought along her taste, her ideas and her fantasy. The result? A made to measure program, a spicy sound menu at the service of a massive seduction weapon : the DJ-U. The software that allows each person to vote for the music they want to hear.
The idea is simple : 10 music categories* are offered, only one is played : the one ordered by the most number of customers. At Kong, it’s good to be the King. And since this brunette doesn’t like to be alone at the turntable she also brought along an original group of friends : Les Babouches for “The spirit of Babouche†evenings. With babouches, you cannot run, but you can move.
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Organized every two years by the GIFAS (Association of French Aerospace companies), the Paris Air show is the occasion for the French and international aeronautical and space communities to present its most recent materials and most powerful, to reveal its programs for the future, to announce or negotiate contracts and projects of co-operations. The Paris Air Show is the world’s largest, with 480,000 visitors reported in 2005. That year’s show featured nearly 2,000 exhibitors and more than 200 aircraft on display.
Technological showroom, businesses and exchanges place, the 46th International Paris Air Show will be also a festival. The last three days of the Air show will be reserved for general public and a specific program has been conceived for this: Forum careers/employment/formation symposiums, ground activities and air show demonstration.
To strengthen its position and be fully prepared to face the future, this industry is expending significant effort and investment in research and development. 14% of its turnover is assigned to this, which is a very high figure. It is yet another key advantage of this industry that plays such a strategic role for France and is a major and essential partner in the building of a Europe that is strong in the Air Cooperation with police and emergency services was also key to the smooth running of the event and allowed us to welcome up to 120,000 visitors in a single day, beating all previous Paris Air Show records. With an increase in total visitor numbers of almost 41% compared to 2003, and 11% compared to 2001, this year’s Show confirms the interest that both the world of aerospace and the general public have in this biennial event.
Louis Le Portz concluded that “the outstanding success of the 46th International Paris Air Show at Le Bourget, organized by the French aerospace industries association Gifas, once again confirms the Show’s status ospace and Defence fields”.
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It’s a joyous riot of color,
abundant and flowing,
a corner of nature just barely tamed,
a paradise made to order by an Impressionist to please the eye
and provide endless motifs to paint.
Giverny is a small French village 80 km to the west of the capital city Paris, within the valley of the river Seine and the northern region of Haute-Normandie. The village is best known as the rural retreat of the Impressionist painter Claude Monet. French impressionist Claude Monet (1840–1926) developed his garden in the Parisian village of Giverny, covering his extensive grounds with brilliant flowers and profuse greenery.
Photographer and expert gardener Elizabeth Murray helped to restore Monet’s gardens, which are now open to the public, during the 1980s; she returns each year to capture new radiance on film. Murray’s detailed descriptions accompany her verdant subjects. Included are views of the Grande Alle, the famous Japanese-style footbridge, and the inspirational water garden. Much of the drama in Claude Monet’s garden at Giverny in Normandy, France, comes from the contrasting horizontal and vertical elements. For smaller spaces, irises, bamboos and grasses can replace the weeping willows.
It is divided into two parts. The rectangular Clos Normand lies in front of the house, with archways of climbing plants wrapped around superbly coloured shrubs. The Water Garden lies further away, and provided inspiration for some of Monet’s greatest work. He came here often during his life, his imagination stimulated by the interplay of light and shadow and the dreamy, contemplative quality of this enchanting Japanese garden. It was here that he painted his Water Lilies series, exquisite canvases which seem to convey the essence of Impressionism and herald the abstract movement to come. The scene remains untouched by time and July is the best time to see the water lilies in their full glory.
When you look at Monet’s paintings of his lily pond at Giverny , you begin to realise how much variation there is in them. Some have a little strip of the ground at the end of the pond, others have none; in some the water looks really deep, and in others Monet’s focused on the surface of the water. You begin to realise how there’s the potential for a lifetime’s paintings in just one subject. He loved flowers and the magnificent gardens slope gently down to the River Epte. The gardens also comprise the walled garden, planted according to Monet’s own design, and the Water Garden, shaded by weeping willows, with its famous Japanese Bridge, its wisterias, azaleas and its pond with water-lilies.
While the garden today is thriving, it is permanently maintained much as it was in Monet’s lifetime. Would he be happy with the garden as it is now? Hesitates to answer directly, as if Monet’s watchful spirit might be hovering over the garden.
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Paris is the undisputed center of the fashion world and Fashion Show. Paris Collections 2007 demonstrates why fashion remains a fine art. Featuring runway garments from the spring collections of ten to twelve influential couturiers and designers. The exhibition explores the ideas and inspirations motivating Paris fashion today and why, in an age of global and instantaneous communication, this venerable city remains the fashion capital. The city has been a magnet for stylish men and women since the seventeenth century, but the French fashion industry has evolved considerably over the centuries—and never more than in the last few years.
The designers highlighted in this exhibition, including Valentino, Lacroix, Dior, and Chanel, bring a unique and clear vision to their work, while still maintaining the high level of craftsmanship for which Paris is justly famous. Paris has long been known as the “City of fashion”. This is the place where it all began. There are haute couture houses like Chanel, Christian Lacroix, Nina Ricci, Yves Saint Laurent and Christian Dior. To be called an haute couture house, a business must belong to the Syndical Chamber for Haute Couture in Paris, which is regulated by the French Department of Industry. Carcelle, President of Louis Vuitton received the international press and such exceptional personalities as Sagamore Stevenin, Bruno Todeschini, Stanislas Merhar and Jalil Lespert.
About 100 ready-to-wear shows are scheduled at various venues until October 10, including at some of Paris architectural jewels such as the Grand Palais, reopened just last month after a 12-year renovation. In Paris, two of the most influential couturiers are also due to be celebrated with exhibitions. The “Spirit of Dior” marks the 100th anniversary , while the other is devoted to Yves Saint Laurent’s perennial favourite, the tuxedo.
The Paris shows are the last stop on a month-long fashion tour which has already taken in New York, London and Milan. The latter only wrapped up on Saturday with collections revealing a focus on femininity with dresses next summer’s key wardrobe staple.
All rush to come in Paris in the week of the currency. Personalities as Madonna, Demi Moor, Victoria and David Beckham of show as well expect the occupation to see the stylish show. Known models as Heidy Klum, Naomi and others show the newest collections of the stylish catwalk.
With more than 80 shows spread over eight days, the Paris show schedule this season is as packed as ever. Grumbach said an abundance of new names reflected the health of the sector. “There has never been such strong interest in new brands and what is more interesting still is that they are not folding, simply reflects world growth, which has been obvious in the last few years, and which is being felt in fashion.”
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The Eiffel Tower, an immense stucture of exposed latticework supports made
of iron, was erected for the Paris Exposition of 1889. The Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII of England) officiated at the ceremonial opening. Of the 700 proposals submitted in a design competition, one was unanimously chosen, a radical creation from the French structural engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel (b. Dec. 15, 1832, d. Dec. 28, 1923), who was assisted in the design by engineers Maurice Koechlin and Emile Nouguier, and architect Stephen Sauvestre.
However, the controversial tower elicited some strong reactions, and a petition of 300 names — including those of Maupassant, Emile Zola, Charles Garnier (architect of the Opéra Garnier), and Dumas the Younger — was presented to the city government, protesting its construction. The petition read, “We, the writers, painters, sculptors, architects and lovers of the beauty of Paris, do protest with all our vigour and all our indignation, in the name of French taste and endangered French art and history, against the useless and monstrous Eiffel Tower.”
Nature lovers thought that it would interfere with the flight of birds over Paris. But the Eiffel Tower was admired by Rousseau, Utrillo, Chagall, and Delaunay. It was almost torn down in 1909 at the expiration of its 20-year lease, but was saved because of its antenna — used for telegraphy at that time. Beginning in 1910 it became part of the International Time Service. French radio (since 1918), and French television (since 1957) have also made use of its stature. In the 1960s, it was the subject of a wonderful study by semiologist Roland Barthes.
Built to celebrate the science and engineering achievements of its age, soaring 300m / 984 ft. (320.75m / 1,052 ft. including antenna) and weighing 7000 tons, the structure consists of two visibly distinct parts: a base composed of a platform resting on four separate supports (called pylons or bents) and, above this, a slender tower created as the bents taper upward, rising above a second platform to merge in a unified column.
This unprecedented work, the tallest structure in the world until the Empire State Building was built about 40 years later, had several antecedents. Among them were the iron-supported railway viaducts designed by Eiffel, an arch bridge over the Douro River in Portugal with a span of 160 m (525 ft), and a design for a circular, iron-frame tower proposed by the American engineers Clarke and Reeves for the Centennial Exposition of 1876. Eiffel knew and publicly acknowledged this influence; he was no stranger to the United States, having designed the wrought-iron pylon inside Frederic Bartholdi’s Statue of Liberty in 1885. Later in the same year, he had also begun work on the cupola of the Nice observatory.
Eiffel was the leading European authority on the aerodynamics of high frames (he wrote “The Resistance of the Air” in 1913). In the construction of the Eiffel Tower, the curve of the base pylons was precisely calculated so that the bending and shearing forces of the wind were progressively transformed into forces of compression, which the bents could withstand more effectively. Such was Eiffel’s engineering wizardry that even in the strongest winds his tower never sways more than 4-1/2 inches. The superskyscrapers erected since 1960, such as the World Trade Center, were constructed in much the same way.
However difficult its birth may have been, the Tour Eiffel is now completely accepted by French citizens, and is internationally recognized as one of the symbols of Paris itself.
In the basements of the eastern and western pillars, one can visit the gargantuan 1899 machinery which powers the elevators, an astonishing spectacle reminiscent of a Jules Verne novel. From the Tower’s three platforms — especially the topmost — the view of Paris is superb. It is generally agreed that one hour before sunset, the panorama is at its best; don’t forget to bring your camera, and experiment with the f-stop settings to capture a dazzling sunset on the Seine. If you can’t be there in person, then check out a Live Aerial View of Paris with TF1’s webcam online: from the top of the Eiffel Tower, you can see Paris in real time, 24 hours a day, whatever the weather conditions in the French capital. To get the most out of this view of Paris, we suggest you surf their web site between 7:00 AM and 9:00 PM GMT (1:00 AM and 3:00 PM Eastern Time in the U.S.), when the City of Light is at its best.
First level: 57.63 meters (189 feet). Observatory from which to study the movements of the Eiffel Tower’s summit. Kiosk presentation about the mythic painting of the Eiffel Tower. Space CINEIFFEL: offers an exceptional
panorama of sights from the Tower. Souvenir shops (yes, every tourist MUST have a miniature replica). Restaurant “Altitude 95″ . Post office, with special stamps “Paris Eiffel Tower “. Panoramic gallery displaying the Monuments of Paris.
Montmartre) rode a bicycle down from the first level; some accounts say he rode down the stairs, others suggest the exterior of one of the tower’s four legs which slope outward.
Politics have also played a role in its life. During World War II, the Germans hung a sign on it that read: “Deutschland Siegt Auf Allen Fronten” (”Germany is victorious on all fronts”). In 1958, a few months before Fidel Castro’s rise to power, Cuban revolutionaries hung their red-and-black flag from the first level, and, in 1979, an American from Greenpeace hung one that read: “Save the Seals”. In 1989, the Tower celebrated its centennial with music and fireworks (the show lasted 89 minutes).
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