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Disregarded Angels and Hidden Gardens Wednesday, May 15, 2013 • Paris, France Don't miss a single issue of Parler Paris! "Whitelist" Parler Paris by adding "info@adrianleeds.com" to your address book.
September 27-28-29, 2013 Nice, France Three Days of Exploring the Côte d'Azur! If you've always dreamed of spending more time in France, enjoying a "pied-à-terre" of your own in Paris or Nice or home in the countryside that you can enjoy when you want...or profitably rent when you like...or just make a smart investment by owning property in France...then this three day conference and tour of the Côte d'Azur is a MUST. There is no doubt, from the hundreds of others who have attended conferences of this kind and fulfilled their dreams...this weekend in Nice will point you in the right direction to really make it happen!
The Hotel Ellington is a boutique hotel situated in a very elegant area in the town center of Nice -- only five minutes from the sea, the shops and the Acropolis conference forum. We have secured a special room rate on a limited number of rooms for a limited time -- book your room before May 31 to receive the preferred conference rate! For more information and to register visit Living and Investing in France Conference. Dear Parler Paris Reader,
Yesterday at Parler Paris Après Midi, Rosemary Flannery talked with enthusiasm about her discovery of angels in Paris that all began with a sculpture she saw regularly of a winged woman at the top of a column in the Parc Monsouris. Intrigued by the majestic sculpture, with its colossal wings, a feminine figure, capped by a fetching helmet (I take liberty in using some of her elegant description), she began to research other sculptures of a similar nature, their angel-like character being the basis for her investigation. The 'not-a-seat-in-the-house' crowd was enthralled by her slide show of angels of the Marais and tales of those we often don't even notice even when passing them daily -- true for me as on my corner are a pair of boy-girl angels I pass many times a day and never have noticed before...until Rosemary pointed them out in her book, "Angels of Paris." The point is, we should all be paying a lot more attention to our beautiful environment! No one questions that Paris is one of the most beautiful cities in the world (if not the most), and there is so much more to discover that it takes many lifetimes, not just one. Coincidentally in Rosemary's talk, she mentioned a hidden garden within the walls of the National Archives that I discovered just two days earlier, thanks to two other friends who also came across it, independently of one another! (Things do seem to happen in 'threes,' don't they?) This is where one can meditate or make love, right in the very heart of Le Marais, hidden behind the tall walls of the National Archives. Again, another spot on my constant route never to have been seen before now, although it opened to the public in 2011. Inside the Hôtel de Soubise, the 8,000 square meters of gardens is made up of four gardens, formerly owned by different mansions: the Hôtels of Rohan, d’Assy, Breteuil, Fontenoy and Jaucourt. Louis Benech, a well-known French garden architect, reshaped the gardens for the city. He can also boast of having worked on more than 250 projects, including the Tuileries Gardens, the gardens of the Elysée Palace, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs gardens and many others around the world. You will feel you have entered into another world at another time...romantic, yet urban, wild yet refined. And it's historical ground. The archives themselves are scheduled to move into a new building in Pierrefitte-sur-Seine, in the northern suburbs of Paris sometime this year, but these buildings currently include the original Declaration on the Rights of Man and of the Citizen dating from 1789, letters from Louis XVI and a papyrus dated AD 625 issued by King Chlotar II. Pools of water will separate the offices from the archives the new building designed by Italian architects Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas, but will that contemporary design compare to the secret gardens of the Hôtel de Soubise? Fortunately, the Marais facility will remain the center for pre-French Revolution archives as well as for Paris notarial records, whereas the new building will keep 60 kilometers of contemporary serial archives and the gardens will be around for a long time to come...as long as we don't forget they are there! Note: To read all about yesterday's Après Midi and see the photos, visit Parler Paris Après Midi. A la prochaine...
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