Tag: 11th arrondissement
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TTD74 – Librairie-café Violette and Co
Librairie-café Violette and Co52 Rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud, 75011 Paris, France Violette and Co. is a feminist, lesbian, and LGBTQIA+ bookshop and café with a thriving programme of literary events and salons. The bookshop is named after the French lesbian writer Violette Leduc. Violette Leduc was born in Arras in 1907, the illegitimate child of a…
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Object 84 – Joël Holmes
Joël Holmes (CHANTEURS ET CHANTEUSES)82 Rue de Montreuil, 75011 Paris, France Originally from Bessarabia, then part of Romania, Joël Holmes immigrated to France with his family in 1934. He was orphaned during WW2 when his parents were deported to Auschwitz, he was just 14 years old. To make ends meet he worked several jobs (electrician,…
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Walk 84 – Place de la Nation
Jordi Coll (CHEFS D’ORCHESTRES)21 Rue de Montreuil, 75011 Paris, France Bandleader Jordi Coll fronted one of the hottest mambo orchestras of mid-century Paris. Known as the Roi du Mambo, Coll and his Orchestre Typique were a regular fixture at the Moulin Rouge during the height of the Latin dance craze in Europe. His early entertainment…
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Object 83 – Irène Rollin / Irène de Paz
Irène Rollin / Irène de Paz (Poete)18bis Rue Chanzy, 75011 Paris, France Irène de Paz was one of those irrepressible creative talents whose work deserves much more recognition. In the 1940s she was a singer on French radio but switched to art in the 1950s, exhibiting under her married name, Irène Rollin. She exhibited her…
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Object 81 – Marc Ogeret
Marc Ogeret (CHANTEURS ET CHANTEUSES)16 Rue Pétion, 75011 Paris, France Born in Paris, French singer Marc Ogeret is best known for his powerful interpretations of political and poetic chanson. In the 1950s he started performing in cabarets, such as Chez Bernadette, Chez Agnès Capri, and La Colombe, on the Île de la Cité. He received…
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Walk 82 – Le Bistrot du Peintre
Les Players C/O Laurent Dumm (CHANTEURS ET CHANTEUSES)19 Rue Keller, 75011 Paris, France Inspired by the Shadows and Duane Eddy, Les Players were a 4 piece rock ‘n’ roll combo formed by 17 year olds Hervé Roy (organ), Christian Martin (bass), Michel Libretti (lead guitar) and Jean Pierre Prevotat (drums) in 1961. After appearing at…
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Walk 81 – Voltaire
Marc Ogeret (CHANTEURS ET CHANTEUSES)16 Rue Pétion, 75011 Paris, France Born in Paris, French singer Marc Ogeret is best known for his powerful interpretations of political and poetic chanson. In the 1950s he started performing in cabarets, such as Chez Bernadette, Chez Agnès Capri, and La Colombe, on the Île de la Cité. He received…
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Corso Fleuri, Boulevard Beaumarchais, Paris – Object 80
Reviving a tradition that crises and wars had ruined, a procession of floats, a true flower parade, crossed Paris from the Place de la Bastille to the Esplanade des Invalides during the 1950s. Starting just after 3pm during days in May, the route cut through the nerve centre of the city, starting with the “old…
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Walk 80 – Richard Lenoir
Jean Lescot (COMEDIENS)96 Bd Beaumarchais, 75011 Paris, France Although Jean Lescot played over 100 roles in TV and Film, it’s his exceptional career as a voiceover artist that lives long in the memory. One of his most memorable assignments, with its distinctive syntax, was the French voice of Yoda in episodes I, II, and III…
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