Paris Update
Electrifying News
ELECTRIFYING NEWS The city of Paris plans to place eight electricity-generating water turbines in four sites in the Seine where the current is strong. Bids have been requested from contractors for this experiment in renewable-energy production, which joins a geothermal-energy … Read More
One-Minute Paris: Chopin Concert in the Bagatelle Garden
{youtube width=”300″ height=”220″}anRp0eKbJ94{/youtube} One-Minute Paris: François Chaplin plays a candlelit concert in the Parc de Bagatelle’s Orangerie for the Festival Chopin 2010. Click here to view on larger screen. Favorite
Le Web Francais
LE WEB FRANÇAIS As of today, France has a new multilingual Web site for visitors, France.fr, which has already crashed because of excess traffic. And the city of Paris recently gave its own site an attractive, much-needed redesign. Both are … Read More
One-Minute Paris: Evening in the Marais
{youtube width=”300″ height=”220″}pKf1Iqi8geE{/youtube} One-minute Paris: A garden party at the Pavillon de la Reine on the Place des Vosges in the Marais. Music provided by Talent à la Carte. Click here to view on larger screen. Favorite
PAINTING OF THE WEEK gerald
“Morning Newspaper,” by Gerald Shuttlesworth. Favorite
Access Denied
ACCESS DENIED France has never been in the vanguard when it comes to disabled access, and now a study by the Association pour Adultes et Jeunes Handicapés shows that only between 5 percent and 15 percent of 330,000 French public … Read More
Occupation Records to Go Public
OCCUPATION RECORDS TO GO PUBLIC Paris’s Préfecture de Police will soon begin digitizing all police records dating from the period of Nazi occupation (1940-44) and will make them available online to the public in 2015-16. Until now, only historians were … Read More
Scene Jardin Ephemere
{youtube width=”300″ height=”220″}ZkfxtZj2Y8I{/youtube} One-minute Paris: Neighbors in Paris’s 14th arrondissement have turned a vacant lot into a community Jardin Ephémère. Click here to view on larger screen. Favorite
Rate Paris Real Estate
RATE PARIS REAL ESTATE A rooftop house on top of another building in Saint Ouen, by Freaks freearchitects. Express your opinion about the Paris region’s modern architecture by voting online for the Prix Grand Public des Architectures Contemporaines de la … Read More
PAINTING OF THE WEEK richard ewen
“Chez Janou” by Richard Ewen. Favorite