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Newsletter SO MANY THINGS TO DO, SO LITTLE TIME … Bonjour Parismarais readers, June is the busiest month in Paris with many cultural events for you to enjoy! Here’s the list of our favorites – you won’t want to miss them. This month, Parisians will be practically living outside with all of the street events and open air festivals. There are few cities in the world that can compete with the diversity of cultural and social events organized by the city or private planners. From the music festival to the Paris Gay Pride Parade, the streets in le Marais streets will be hopping, offering you tons of memorable activities to enjoy. To make the most of your stay in Paris, we have selected some great deals for you, in hotels, restaurants, clubs and more. We encourage you to check out the addresses we have listed throughout the newsletter.
STAY IN FABULOUS HOTELS IN EUROPE
HOTEL DEALS IN SUMMERTIME Here is our selection. For each hotel, check out the special summer rate on the right side of their presentation page. Hotels in Le Marais : DISCOVER FABULOUS 4 STAR HOTELS AROUND LE MARAIS There are very few luxury hotels in the Marais district, and they are often fully booked because they are among the most popular with visitors to Paris! You’ll want to book well in advance, unless you are planning your trip in August, the low season in Paris. To make sure you find the best hotels at the best rates, we have selected 20 fabulous luxury hotels in central Paris, just for you. Most are located close to the Marais district, and less than 15 minutes from the historical center of Paris. Book your hotel online at the best possible rates with Parismarais.com, and you will deal directly with the hotel reception. You’ll be guaranteed the best rate depending on your dates. Book now… FAVORITE RESTAURANTS Le Pamphlet is still one of the best value gastronomic option in le Marais, it welcomes you with a fresh market menu that offers unbeatable prices – enjoy an appetizer, main dish and dessert for just 35€. You’ll be won over by the surprises, amuses bouches, and the mignardises.
The Pamphlet’s menu changes weekly, but the classics are a constant. Start with a Camembert salad with smoked anchovy filets or shredded crab in an asparagus and citron vinaigrette followed by chopped duck breast topped with a fried egg, green beans and new potatoes. Or perhaps a Salers filet of beef prepared a la Rossini with pomme grenaille and mushrooms. Finish off with a red-fruit millefeuille. Le Trésor
Try the croustillant de saumon au saté et purée maison – The gigantic burger du trésor – for lunch, gigantic salads, including The Cesar Salad. To finish, don’t miss the tiramisu, it means « take me to heaven in italian », it’s true ! There are very few restaurants where you can eat out in such a beautiful decor for around 35 euros, so don’t hesitate to discover the Trésor, a treasure for the palate and the eyes. Des gars dans la cuisine
“Des Gars” literally means two guys and is a play on words meaning “damage”. “The guys” would be the chefs, Jean-Jacques Delaval and Gil Rosinha. But there’s no damage here, instead their sure hands will win over your taste buds, and the waiters’ warm smiles will make you feel welcome. Go for the lunch formula: 2 dishes for 14 euros. Unbeatable! Sunday Brunch runs from 22 to 24 euros, with a health food choice that is guilt-free. Top wines at reasonable prices like Le Mercurey AOC Bouchard, Le Marquis St Estephe, le Petit Chablis AOC domaine Louis Moreau are also on the menu... all for only about 30€. More restaurants: http://www.parismarais.com/selected-restaurants.htm DON’T SAY YUMMM, SAY MIAM!
EVENTS NOT TO MISS FETE DE LA MUSIQUE
FESTIVAL DES SOIRS D’ETE AT PARIS DISTRICT 3 CITY HALL
“THE GUSTAVE EIFFEL EXHIBITION” at Paris City Hall And, just when you thought you knew everything there was to know about what must be the world’s most potent symbol of a city, you learn something new. The other designs entered into the competition for a tower for the Exposition Universelle of 1889, for example, were strikingly similar to Eiffel’s, not surprising since the guidelines for the competition called for “an iron tower with a square base… and a height of 300 meters.” And it turns out that Eiffel didn’t actually design the tower himself but bought the patent for it from two of the engineers working for his own firm, Maurice Kœchlin and Émile Nouguier, who had designed it in 1884. Then there are the wonderful drawings for a competition held for the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1900. Entrants were told they could either replace the tower, save it or transform it. They came up with some fanciful (to say the least) ideas for dressing up the tower for the new century: adding an elaborate metal skirt around its lower levels, turning it into a mountain (complete with roads, trees, villages, viaducts and a waterfall flowing into the Seine, which could have been very interesting), building a sort of temple adorned with huge statues around it, transforming it into a pyramid, prettifying it with flags and other decorations, and so on. Thankfully, in spite of the fact that the “odious” tower, described by Joris-Karl Huysmans as a “solitary suppository riddled with holes” was detested by much of the public in the early days (the exhibition includes a petition against it signed by dozens of luminaries of the day, including Charles Garnier [architect of the Paris opera house] and Guy de Maupassant), none of the abovementioned plans was adopted, and Eiffel’s tower was saved in all its beautiful starkness, mainly because a telegraph antenna was installed on top of the 300-meter-high tower in 1905, making it an essential structure rather than just a curiosity. The funny thing about Eiffel, as the exhibition points up, is that while his tower and other designs may have been avant-garde and even revolutionary, there was nothing the least Guevara-like about the man himself, who scorned modern art and lived in a seriously bourgeois town house stuffed with plush, ornate furniture like all good burghers during the Belle Epoque. Another exhibition with similar themes, “L’Epopée de la Tour Eiffel,” is being held on the first floor of the tower itself through December 21. And this year’s Bastille Day fireworks, to be set off from the tower, should be quite a spectacle. Heidi Ellison Hôtel de Ville: Salle Saint Jean, 5, rue de Lobau, 75004 Paris. Métro: Hôtel de Ville. Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Closed on Sunday and public holidays. Admission: free. Through August 29.
PARIS FIRE BRIGADE SPORT SHOW
PARIS GAY PRIDE - Mark your calendar – June 27, 2009! Each year, more than half a million people take part in this event. As usual, the parade will have a theme, which is always treated with thought and humor, and which may be a reflection of society, a subject of debate, or a sensitive topic.
Since 2001, colorful floats, costumes and characters mingle with supporters who have come to cheer on their actions or parade their own identity. The floats file past a crowd of bystanders and locals, who are at first surprised and then won over by the stream of dancing, singing and rhetoric, always conveying the same warmth and conviction. The parade is a rare event, mind-blowing and unforgettable. It starts at Paris Montparnasse and reaches Bastille plaza at 5 p.m. The best place to sit and watch the parade is for sure the CAFE FRANÇAIS on place de la bastille : check http://www.parismarais.com/cafes-brasseries.htm Check out the parade route and plan to join in the fun! And dress as flirty as possible! http://marche.inter-lgbt.org/spip.php?article117
Check interview of its manager Bernard Bousset in the film dedicated to rue des Archives : Le Tango, is one of our favorite disco clubs newly redecorated and now 100% no smoking, thanks to the new anti-smoking law. you’re also welcome to discover some new places in Gay Paree such as L’enchanteur, a place to sing (chanter in french) and to be enchanted. As well as the Eagle, a dance club dedicated to a more Butch crowd... Entrance is 10€ on weekends and free during the week. New parties at Raidd Bar DISCOVER THE FRENCH REGIONS WITH PARISMARAIS.COM A trip to France would not be complete without spending at least a couple of nights in the Loire Valley. For three or four nights you can afford to stay in the very best hotels…there are at least 10 luxury hotels and châteaux ready to offer you their services. When booking any Loire Valley hotel through Parismarais.com, you can benefit from great prices and often get upgrades upon availability. Book at great rates with Parismarais.com. A château for around 130€ per night…what do you think? Definitely worth extending your stay after Paris! http://www.parismarais.com/hotels-europe.php?zone=FRCe WHAT’S UP NEXT IN LE MARAIS? Our newsletter is available in English once a month, but we have so much to tell you it just keeps getting longer and longer! Don’t wait for the next issue to discover what’s new in le Marais. Almost every day we’ll add a new report or article about le Marais and Paris, plus many tips about real estate, travel and entertainment in Paris. These articles will be available in English, French, Italian, Dutch, German, Swedish, Danish, Spanish and Russian. We are building strong relationships with many international media agencies to promote le Marais around the world, and we’ll publish some of their articles in our blog. If you want to write about le Marais, send us your comments about hotels, restaurants, shops and more in Paris. If we publish it, we’ll be happy to add you to the list of our contributors and writers. http://www.parismarais.fr/blog/ ADVERTISE YOUR PROPERTIES AND SELL YOUR GOODS Did you know that Parismarais.com is a great marketplace where you can make new contacts and buy and sell practically anything you can imagine? Furniture, holidays, clothing, vintage design, kitchen tools and more…you may even find the love of your life. Post a small ad online for only a couple of euros and have it promoted on Parismarais.com and 20 other Anglophone web sites reaching thousands of readers every day. As good as Craig’s List, but more Europe oriented, which is important when you want to see what you are going to buy. Great isn’t it? Start advertising now – it’s fast and easy! http://www.parismarais.com/buy-and-sell-your-goods.htm Don't Miss PARISMARAIS NEWSLETTER AND SPECIAL OFFERS AOL blocks many major European ISPs, so we cannot guarantee that our mail to AOL addresses will arrive. Please use another email provider or "White List" our email address or add "info@parismarais.com" and to your contact list. Parismarais Newsletter, June 2009 To Subscribe: To Cancel
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“Gustave Eiffel: Le Magicien du Fer,” a new exhibition at Paris’s Hôtel de Ville celebrating the iconic tower’s 120th anniversary, has something for everyone. Engineers and architects can marvel at the inventiveness and technical prowess exhibited in beautifully rendered plans for bridges and other structures, including some that were never built, such as an “underwater bridge” under the English Channel. Art lovers can admire a plethora of paintings, drawings, prints and photographs of the tower by renowned artists, among them Robert Delaunay, Raoul Dufy, Fernand Léger and Man Ray, as well as documentary images of its construction. History and trivia buffs can revel in many curious facts about the tower and biographical info on the man himself.
We also learn that Eiffel pioneered a number of innovative bridge-building techniques and was an expert in prefabrication, and that he designed the inner structure of the Statue of Liberty for sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi. After his retirement, he devoted the last three decades of his life to research, conducting aerodynamic and aeronautic experiments and inventing, among other things, wind tunnels to test his theories (one, in Auteuil, still functions) and a high-speed fighter plane.
