Tag: history
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Walk 72 – Pont Mirabeau
Florent (Florent Veilleux) (CHANTEURS ET CHANTEUSES)32 Rue Félicien David, 75016 Paris, France Canadian singer-songwriter and artist Florent Veilleux moved first to Belgium (1963) and then to Paris (1965), emerging as a distinctive voice on the 1960s folk scene. An idiosyncratic author, composer, performer and director for the theatre, he was a winner of the Relais…
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Walk 71 – Musée Clemenceau
Clarisse Deudon – COMEDIENNES9 Rue de Passy, 75016 Paris, France Actress Clarisse Deudon studied at the Conservatoire National de Paris, where she won first prize in tragedy and diction. She joined the Comédie-Française in 1942, making her debut in Maurice Donnay’s L’Autre Danger. She would leave the theatre in 1954 to devote more time to…
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Walk 64 – Jasmin
Jasmin MétroThe station was opened on 8 November 1922. It is named after the French poet Jacques Jasmin (born Jacques Boé; 1798–1864), called the wig-maker poet, whose works in Langue d’oc were the precursor of the Félibrige, the literary movement of Provençal. Chapelle Sainte-Thérèse (Paris)The Sainte-Thérèse chapel is the first sanctuary that was dedicated to…
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