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philippedurand8900 · 2 years

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RETRAITES - Meetings unitaire partout en France !

Retrouvez les meetings unitaires près de chez vous !

(Ordre chronologique. Liste mise à jour régulièrement avec les compléments d'informations et de nouvelles dates. )

PARIS - 25/01 à 19h30 Digital Village, 21 rue Albert Bayet. Avec Elsa Faucillon pour le PCF, Sandrine Rousseau (EELV), Arthur Delaporte ( PS), Sophie Taillé-Polian (EELV), Danielle Simonnet (LFI).

BEAUVAIS - 26/01 à 19h30 Salle du Pré-Martinet. Avec Stéphane Peu pour le PCF, Cyrielle Châtelain (EELV), Antoine Léaument ( LFI), Benjamin Lucas (Génération·s), Philippe Brun (PS).

AUXERRE - 27/01 à 19h - Salle de réception Jules Ferry rive droite. Avec Pascal Savoldelli pour le PCF, Florence Loury (EELV), Mani Cambfort (secrétaire départementale PS), Arnaud Legall (LFI).

NYONS - 27/01. Avec Jean-Marc Durand pour le PCF, Manuel Bompard (LFI), Marie Pochon (EELV).

MOULINS - 27/01 à 18h30. Avec Yannick Monnet pour le PCF, Marianne Maximi (LFI).

SOTTEVILLE-LES-ROUEN - 30/01 à 19h Salle buddicum. Avec Hubert Wulfranc pour le PCF, Alma Dufour (LFI), Gérard Leseul (PS), Julie Godichaud (conseillère municipale EELV).

TULLE - 30/01 à 19h30 Salle Latreille bas. Avec Nicolas Marlin pour le PCF, Damien Maudet (LFI), François Piquemal (LFI), Chloé Herzhaft (EELV).

LA COURNEUVE - 1/02 Salle des fêtes rue Gabriel Péri. Avec Soumya Bourouaha pour le PCF, Raquel Garrido (LFI), Fathia Keloua-Hachi et Stéphane Troussel (PS), parlementaire EELV.

SAINT-NAZAIRE - 1/02 à 20h Salle Alvéole. Avec Véronique Mahé pour le PCF, Matthias Tavel (LFI), Mathilde Panot (présidente du groupe parlementaire LFI), Philippe Brun (PS), Julie Laernoes (EELV), Arash Saedi (coordinateur national Generation·s).

DIEPPE - 2/02 à 18H Salle des congrès. Avec Sébastien Jumel et Fabien Gay pour le PCF, François Ruffin (LFI), Marie-Charlotte Garin (EELV).

LILLE - 2/02 à 19h. Avec Fabien Roussel pour le PCF, Marine Tondelier (EELV) ; Roger Vicot (PS), LFI, Generation·s.

TOURS - 2/02 à 19h30 Centre de vie du Sanitas, 10 Pl. Neuve avec Ian Brossat pour le PCF, François Piquemal (LFI), Charles Fournier (EELV), Evelyne Dourille-Feer, (économiste et membre d’Attac).

SAINT-AGATHON - 3/02 à 19h30 Salle de la Grande Ourse, 9 rue de Hent Meur. Avec Pascal Bonneau pour le PCF, Murielle LEPVRAUD, Manon AUBRY et François Piquemal (LFI), Hervé Guihard (Place publique), Gérard Mauduit (Ensemble), Christian Renard (POI), Tugdual Le Lay (Génération·s).

NÎMES - 10/02 à 19h Centre Andre Malraux 2 Avenue de Lattre de Tassigny 30000 Nîmes. Avec Fabien Roussel pour le PCF, Boris Vallaud (PS), Manuel Bompard (LFI), Raymonde Poncet (EELV).

CLERMONT-FERRAND - 10/02 à 19h Maison du Peuple. Avec André Chassaigne pour le PCF, Sophie Taillé-Polian (Génération·s), Christine Pires-Beaune (PS), Marianne Maximi (LFI).

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soracities · 2 years

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brief primer for the hopeless days, pt. IV

"I felt I should embrace him and tell him not to suffer; that he wasn't alone, that I was his friend and we were living on the same planet, at the same time, in the same country; that now the two of us were in the same park, on the same bench; that human beings should talk to each other, be aware of each other, and love each other; that each man who passes by offers us the chance for companionship and warmth."

Josefina Vicens, The Empty Book (tr. David Lauer)

[James Baldwin & Friends, Istanbul. ph. Sedat Pakay]

"On love: always the great gestures, or that it is incompatible with ambition and individuality. Rarely the small gestures, rarely that these make the other accomplishments possible. A work in progress. A chain of kindnesses fashioned a link at a time. Clumsy effort, but effort nonetheless."

Katie Ward, Girl Reading

Paul Eluard, “Gabriel Péri” tr. Gilbert Brown

[Two old men hand in hand rush for taking place for prayer time in the Yeni Cami mosque in Istanbul. ph. Marco Vacca]

"We find comfort only in another beauty, in others' music, in the poetry of others. Salvation lies with others, though solitude may taste like opium. Other people aren't hell if you glimpse them at dawn, when their brows are clean, rinsed by dreams."

Adam Zagajewski, “Another Beauty”, tr. Clare Cavanagh

"We are sun and moon, dear friend; we are sea and land. It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other’s opposite and complement."

Hermann Hesse, Narcissus & Goldmund

"Down the road there is an old man who sits in a chair under the porch of his front door to enjoy the sun. He is very old. In fact, he is dying. And because I know this, every time I pass him I pass the time of day with him. I tell him he is getting brown in the sun. Or he asks me about the price of the vegetables in my shopping bag – once he lived in the country – and I answer him at length and with great warmth. Why do I do this? It is a natural reaction. Soon he will die [and] I want him between now and then, and perhaps even at the moment of dying, to have good thoughts, not of me personally, but of the living, of the world he leaves. I want to give him reason for thinking the best possible thoughts."

John Berger, A Painter of Our Time

[waves of handprints dating between 7,300 BC & 700 AD, Cueva de las Manos (Cave of Hands), Santa Cruz, Argentina. ph. Pablo A. Gimenez]

“Something strange happens when people are in a small boat, something that rarely happens with people in a car or an elevator, in a train or even a boat large enough to say that you are on it instead of in it. What they experience is the sense of solitude. There are only a few thin boards keeping them from being totally engulfed by the surrounding deep sea. They are lonely, but it’s not an isolated loneliness, because they feel lonesome together, together with others in the boat. This is why a temporary bond forms between people in a small boat. They only have each other, the deep sea is frightening, and small boats are very fragile. Therefore, each one of them becomes the other’s lifebuoy. If you’re not afraid, then neither am I, so we shouldn’t scare each other, and we ought to be nice to each other as long as the water surrounds us.”

Stig Dagerman, A Moth to a Flame (Burnt Child), tr. Benjamin Mier-Cruz

["The Ride Home", submitted by slyburger13 r/AccidentalRenaissance]

"I tried to focus on something small, the smallest thing I could think of. Someone once made this pew I’m sitting on, I thought. Someone sanded the wood and varnished it. Someone carried it into the church. Someone laid the tiles on the floor, someone fitted the windows. Each brick was placed by human hands, each hinge fitted on each door, every road surface outside, every bulb in every streetlight. And even things built by machines were really built by human beings, who built the machines initially. And human beings themselves, made by other humans, struggling to create happy children and families. Me, all the clothing I wear, all the language I know. Who put me here in this church, thinking these thoughts? Other people, some I know very well and others I have never met. Am I myself, or am I them? Is this me, Frances? No, it is not me. It is the others. Do I sometimes hurt and harm myself, do I abuse the unearned cultural privilege of whiteness, do I take the labor of others for granted, have I sometimes exploited a reductive iteration of gender theory to avoid serious moral engagement, do I have a troubled relationship with my body, yes. Do I want to be free of pain and therefore demand that others also live free of pain, the pain that is mine and therefore also theirs, yes, yes.”

Sally Rooney, Conversations With Friends

[”Pale Blue Dot”: photo of Earth taken by the Voyager 1 space probe]

[anonymous, Jan. 15, 2022]

Alain de Botton, Essays in Love

"A single stranger sleeps next to me and I feel like a whole crowd has come in with him. He hasn’t said anything to me, I haven’t said anything to him, but I feel I have nothing else to say to him, nor to hide from him."

Mihail Sebastian, For Two Thousand Years (tr. Philip Ó Ceallaigh)

[tiktok @ shanrizwan]

Michael Onyebuchi Eze, Intellectual History in Contemporary South Africa

[”A full bottle of wine just rolled out from under a subway seat and now these 2 strangers popped it open & are drinking it. This is peak NYC”, ph. Colleen Hagerty]

"Nobody can claim that humanity is in the process of decay without having observed the same putrid symptoms in himself. Nobody can say that humanity is evil without he himself having been part of evil deeds. There is no such thing as unshackled observation. He who lives is the life-long prisoner of humanity and contributes, willingly or unwillingly, to an increase or decrease of the human inventory of happiness and misfortune, greatness and humiliation, hope and despondence […] the fate of humanity is at stake everywhere and at all times, and the responsibility of one life for another is immeasurable."

Stig Dagerman, "Do We Have Faith in Humankind?"

#feeling....things and things and things #compilation #a brief primer for the hopeless days #without tenderness we are in hell #m #x

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vieuxmetiers · 4 years

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Il faut de temps en temps remettre les pendules à l'heure, ici place Gabriel Péri, Lyon, 1961.

#reglage d'horloge #lyon #1961 #policier

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archivesdunconfinement · 5 years

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Ça fait cinq ans et demi que je regarde à ma fenêtre, et que je vois ce parasol, qui abrite des apéros, des jeux de cartes, qui se prend méchamment le vent du Nord dans la gueule, toutes les pluies et surement la neige, quand il en tombait.

J'ai toujours pris l'habitude de le fixer quand je suis au téléphone. Je n'aime pas le téléphone, j'ai du mal à me concentrer sur juste une voix désincarnée, je dois fermer les yeux, et marcher, ou alors fixer quelque chose qui ne bouge pas, pas le ciel, pas les rues, cette petite cour intérieure.

Ces deux derniers jours j'ai l'impression de les avoir passés au téléphone, à rassurer mes proches, à leur dire des trucs gentils, à faire des blagues.

Ces deux derniers jours à fixer ce parasol je le trouvais indécent, d'être dehors, alors que nous nan.

J'ai hâte que tout ça soit fini et qu'on le brûle en feu de joie sur la place Gabriel Péri après une procession païenne le long de la Guille.

Nous somme le troisième jour du confinement, et ça fait toujours plus mal d'être ghostée par mon crush que de vivre dans une dystopie.

#johnnywinston

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terrecorse · 3 years

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En mémoire des fusillés par les nazis : Ensemble résistons à l’idéologie d’extrême droite

A Bastia et Ajaccio ce 15 décembre 2 rassemblements étaient organisés à l’initiative du PCF

Il y a eu Gabriel Péri, il y a eu Lucien Sampaix, il y a eu Georges Politzer, il y a eu les membres du groupe Manouchian, des centaines de résistants, de très nombreux communistes, fusillés par les nazis au Mont Valérien.

Et c’est sur le monument dédié à leur mémoire en ce même lieu que des nostalgiques du salut fasciste ont choisi de faire un tag de 50 mètres de long « AntipaSS », dont les deux dernières lettres formaient le sigle « SS » des nazis.

A la veille du 80ème anniversaire du premier massacre perpétré le 15 décembre 1941 au mont Valérien par les nazis, les auteurs de cette inscription ont ainsi insulté la Résistance en vomissant leur haine contre la République et les valeurs humanistes universelles.

Dans ce pays tout est en train de redevenir possible : des meetings ouvertement racistes et xénophobes, un candidat à la présidentielle qui, d’émission TV en clip de campagne, recycle les pires thèses antisémites, réhabilite Pétain, réécrit l’histoire à sa convenance, déverse sa haine sans limite, en tentant de faire passer sa rhétorique nauséabonde pour une « opinion ».

La compromission, pour d’obscurs calculs politiciens, avec un néofascisme assumé doit cesser. Le combat initié avec le projet de loi déposé par Fabien Roussel et le groupe communiste à l’Assemblée nationale rendant inéligible tout individu condamné pour actes ou propos racistes, doit se poursuivre.

Il est de notre responsabilité de femmes et d’hommes de gauche, de progressistes, de sortir le pays de cette impasse réactionnaire et fascisante pour ne pas replonger dans la nuit.

C’est pourquoi nous nous rassemblons sous la plaque honorant notre compatriote Gabriel Peri mort pour que Vive la France celle des Lumières et de 1789. Leur sacrifice ne peut être ni souillé ni effacé.

Ce devoir de mémoire, nous le leur devons et nous le devons aux générations futures. En ce sens il serait inacceptable que l’arrêt de bus de la place Vincetti à Bastia soit débaptisé.

En mémoire des fusillés par les nazis et les chemises noires, ensemble résistons à ceux qui aujourd’hui nous ramènent vers cette très sombre période de l’histoire.

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shop-in-var · 4 years

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Fête des mères, ce dimanche 7 juin 2020. Retrouvez de quoi finir un bon repas, pour déguster en famille un de nos succulents gâteaux fait avec amour par nos chefs pâtissiers. N'hésitez pas à réserver dans l'un de nos points de vente ci-dessous : Installée dans le sud de la France depuis 1945. Boulanger - Patissier - Chocolatier - Glacier et Restaurant. Les boutiques Maison Sarroche #maisonsarroche Place Puget 11, Rue Berthelot - 83000 Toulon +33 (0)4 94 09 15 07 #maisonsarrochepuget Brasserie Félix 29, Rue d’Alger - 83000 Toulon +33 (0)4 94 09 15 67 #brasseriefelix Le Mourillon 101, Boulevard Bazeilles - 83000 Toulon +33 (0)4 94 91 24 95 #maisonsarrochelemourillon L’esquirole CC La Rotonde - 83220 Le Pradet +33 (0)4 94 57 48 43 #maisonsarrochelesquirole Avenue 83 CC l'Avenue 83 - 83160 La Valette +33 (0)4 94 31 86 50 #maisonsarrocheavenue83 La Garde 6, Av. Gabriel Péri - 83130 La Garde +33 (0)4 94 21 84 10 #maisonsarrochelagarde Le Pouverel 1091, Av. de Lattre de Tassigny - 83130 La Garde +33 (0)4 94 20 01 50 #maisonsarrochelepouverel Carqueiranne 44, Av. Jean-Jaurès - 83320 Carqueiranne +33 (0)4 94 58 61 50 #maisonsarrochecarqueiranne Hyères 1, Av. Aristid Briand - 83400 Hyères +33 (0)4 94 48 46 84 #maisonsarrochehyeres La Capte 2055, Route de Giens - 83400 Hyères +33 (0)4 94 14 35 24 #maisonsarrochelacapte Le Lavandou 13, Av. des Martyrs de la Résistance - 83980 Le Lavandou +33 (0)4 94 09 21 62 #maisonsarrochelelavandou #tvs #toulonvarsud #shopinvar #varmatin #welcomepaca #creditphotomarcelmuller (à Maison Sarroche le Mourillon) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBBnW5_qIu4/?igshid=18oqv8vnwxnc5

#maisonsarroche #maisonsarrochepuget #brasseriefelix #maisonsarrochelemourillon #maisonsarrochelesquirole #maisonsarrocheavenue83 #maisonsarrochelagarde #maisonsarrochelepouverel #maisonsarrochecarqueiranne #maisonsarrochehyeres #maisonsarrochelacapte #maisonsarrochelelavandou #tvs #toulonvarsud #shopinvar #varmatin #welcomepaca #creditphotomarcelmuller

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luberon-provence · 7 years

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Fête de la libération d'Apt le 22 août https://www.luberonweb.com/article,1031,fetes-fete-de-la-liberation-dapt-le-22-aout.html La ville d'Apt, capitale du Luberon, fête sa libération le mardi 22 août à partir de 18h30, place Gabriel Péri. https://www.luberonweb.com/tourisme-Luberon-Provence/Apt-3

Une commémoration plus familiale cette année avec un pique-nique républicain agrémenté d’une ambiance musicale acoustique. Venez avec vos proches et n’oubliez pas votre panier ! Quelques pas de danse seront même possibles. En effet, la guinche sera de la partie et viendra glisser aux oreilles de chacun le souvenir d’un moment difficile et joyeux à la foi, bref; une soirée de partage.

Renseignements au 04 90 04 52 47

Liens utiles : https://www.luberonweb.com/villages-Luberon-Provence/Apt-3/ https://www.luberonweb.com/recherche/ https://www.immobilier-en-luberon.fr/

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neovitae · 6 years

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Inspecteur de salubrité (H/F)

Monsieur le Maire Mairie Place Gabriel Péri 93156 LE BLANC MESNIL CEDEX [email protected]. OUTILS. Continuer votre recherche. from Google Alert - DRH https://ift.tt/2NNxWky

#Neovitae #Google Alert - DRH

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guillaume-davranche · 8 years

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La tournée Trop jeunes pour mourir

Les prochaines dates :

24 septembre 2017 : à Cluny (71), au Salon du livre libertaire de Saône-et-Loire

20 juin 2017 : à Montreuil (93), de 10h à 11h, au siège confédéral, 263, rue de Paris, à l’occasion du congrès de la CGT Construction-Bois-Ameublement

10 janvier 2017 : à Millau (12), à 20h30, à la Fabrick, 9, rue de la Saunerie

20 décembre 2016 : à Montreuil (93), à 18h30, à la bourse du travail, 24, rue de paris

2 juillet : à Amiens (80), à 14h, salle Maurice-Honeste, 67 bd du Cange

26 juin : à Montreuil (93), à 13h30, à la fête de la CNT, présentation des Mémoires d’Eugène Cotte, Je n’irai pas (éd. La Ville brûle), dont j’ai établi l’appareil critique.

9 juin : à Paris 13e, à 14h15, à la Maison du Livre, 94 boulevard Auguste-Blanqui, à l’invitation de l’Institut CGT d’histoire sociale du Livre parisien

16 mai : à Presles (95), de 11h à 12h, sous le chapiteau Karl-Marx de la fête de Lutte ouvrière

27 avril : à Saint-Étienne (42), à 19 heures, à la bibliothèque de la Dérive, 91 rue Antoine-Durafour

Tournée de l’est et du nord

5 mars : à Nancy (54), à 14h30, au Centre culturel autogéré de Nancy, 69 rue de Mon-Désert

4 mars : à Metz (57), à 19h30, au local de la CNT, 5, place des Charrons

3 mars : à Strasbourg (67), à 18h30, au Molodoï, 19, rue du Ban-de-la-Roche. Apéro-bouffe conviviale puis présentation du livre

2 mars : à Lille (59), à 20h, au Centre culturel libertaire, 4, rue de Colmar

1er mars : à Bruxelles, à 18 heures, à la librairie Joli Mai, 29, avenue Paul-Dejaer

29 février : à Liévin (62), à 19 heures, au Lieu autogéré, 23 avenue Jean-Jaurès

20 janvier 2016 : à Paris 19e, à 19 heures, pour l’association Nogozon, 3 passage de l’Atlas

11 novembre 2015 : à Lyon 7e, à 14 heures, à l’Atelier des canulars, 91, rue Montesquieu

10 novembre : à Alès (30), à 19 heures, à la bibliothèque La Rétive, 42, faubourg d’Auvergne

4 novembre : à Montreuil (93), à 11 heures, sur l’angle “CGT et travailleurs migrants (avant 1914)”, dans le cadre d’une formation syndicale organisée par la fédération CGT Construction-Bois-Ameublement.

24 septembre : à Montreuil (93), à 19 heures, au Musée d’histoire vivante, 31, boulevard Théophile-Sueur

13 septembre : à La Courneuve (93), à 11 heures, à la fête de L’Humanité, sur le stand de l’UD-CGT de Paris.

27 mai : à Montreuil (93), de 11h à 14h, au siège de la CGT, en marge du comité confédéral national.

8 mai : à Montreuil (93), à 13h30, au festival de la CNT-F à la Parole errante, 9 rue François-Debergue.

18 avril : à Rouen (76), à 16h30, pour la Journée de l'édition libertaire de la librairie L'Insoumise, 128 rue Saint-Hilaire.

14 avril : à Ivry-sur-Seine (94), à 19h, à la librairie coopérative Envie de lire, 16, rue Gabriel-Péri.

28 février : à Paris, de 13h30 à 15h30, sur Radio libertaire, en débat avec Jean-Claude Lamoureux, auteur des Dix derniers jours, dans l'émission Chroniques rebelles de Christiane Passevant. Et, de 16h30 à 19h, à la librairie Publico, 145, rue Amelot.

Tournée de l'ouest

7 février : à Rennes (35), à 17h, à la librairie Pecari amphibie, place Sainte-Anne.

6 février : à Angers (49), à 20h30, à l’Étincelle, 26, rue Maillé.

5 février : au Mans (72), à 19h, à la librairie L’Herbe entre les dalles, 7 rue de la Barillerie.

4 février : à Tours (37), à 19h, dans l'émission Demain le Grand Soir sur Radio Béton ; à 20h30 au bar des Colette's, 57, quai Paul-Bert.

3 février 2015 : à Orléans (45), à 18h30, à la librairie Les Temps modernes, 57 Rue Notre-Dame-de-Recouvrance.

10 janvier 2015 : à Paris 11e, à 15h30, dans le cadre du RDV des Editions Libertalia, au CICP, 21 ter rue Voltaire.

20 décembre 2014 : sur Radio libertaire, à 13h30, dans l'émission Chroniques rebelles, avec Christiane Passevant.

Tournée du Midi

15 décembre : à Dijon (21), à 19h, au Black Market, 59, rue Berbisey.

13 décembre : Grenoble (38), à 17h30, à la librairie Antigone, 22, rue des Violette.

12 décembre : à Marseille (13), à 19h, au Centre international de recherches sur l'anarchisme (CIRA), 50, rue Consolat.

11 décembre : à Montpellier (34), 19h, à la librairie Scrupule, 26, rue du Faubourg-Figuerolles.

10 décembre : à Toulouse (31), dans le cadre de l'Université populaire, de 18h à 19h, à la librairie Terra Nova, 18, rue Léon-Gambetta ; puis à partir de 20h45 au Bijou, 123, avenue de Muret.

9 décembre : à Agen (47), à 18h, au cinéma Les Montreurs d'images, 12, rue Jules-Ferry.

8 décembre : à Bordeaux (33), à 20h, à l’Athénée libertaire, 7, rue du Muguet.

4 décembre : à Montreuil (93), à 19h, à la médiathèque Robert-Desnos, 14, boulevard Rouget-de-Lisle.

21 novembre : à Erquery (60), à 20h30, à la Grange-Erquery, 16, rue de la République.

18 novembre : sur Radio libertaire, à 20h, dans l’émission Lumière noire, avec Agnès Pavlowski.

15 novembre : à Saint-Denis (93), à partir de 18h30, soirée de lancement au théâtre de la Belle-Étoile, 14, rue Saint-Just.

8 novembre 2014 : à Paris 20e, de 15h à 17h, journée organisée par le SUB-CNT au 33, rue des Vignoles.

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cashexpress92 · 3 years

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Nouveau #iphone12promax , j'hésite à me l'offrir .Que ferais tu à ma place ? (à Cash Express Colombes de l'église/Gabriel Péri) https://www.instagram.com/p/CPxbYpJAnjL/?utm_medium=tumblr

#iphone12promax

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greenbagjosh · 4 years

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28 March 2000 - Kremlin Bicêtre army base, Montmartre, top of the Grande Arche de La Défense and last time for 2000 on the M8

Bonjour mesdames et messieurs!

Today is Tuesday the 28th March 2000, and the last full day of my visit to Paris. What should we do today? I have always enjoyed going to Sacre Coeur de Montmartre, and have always wanted to go to the top of the Grande Arche de La Défense, as I had previously done on the Arc de Triomphe and Eiffel Tower. There was one curiosity on the left bank, just south of the Paris city limits towards Villejuif through Place d'Italie. Before I made a plan, I had to have breakfast at 6:45 AM. I decided first to go to the Forte de Bicêtre at Kremlin Bicêtre.

About 7 AM I walked to the Crozatier bus stop on Rue du Faubourg St. Antoine and Rue Crozatier, just a few hundred meters from Rue Trousseau. I boarded bus line 86 and took it as far as the Sully Morland Metro station, via Bastille. At Sully Morland I could catch the M7 to Villejuif and stop at the Kremlin Bicêtre. However I was a bit impatient and caught the Mairie d'Ivry branch train. Two stops after Place d'Italie, I had to alight at Maison Blanche and wait on the next train to Villejuif Louis Aragon. From there it was just one metro stop away to Le Kremlin Bicêtre.

What was expected to be at the Fort de Bicêtre at Kremlin Bicêtre? It is an actual fortress. It is not as exciting to see as the one in Moscow. And there is no external mausoleum for any leader that I am aware of. From the Kremlin Bicêtre metro stop, I took the bus line 47 to Barnufles la Piscine and walked down Avenue Charles Gide to the driveway of Fort de Bicêtre and then uphill to the northern gates. At the time it was not equipped to handle visitors, so there was nothing much to do but stand outside the big green gate with FORT DE BICÊTRE in big letters. Note from Wikipedia: "Since it is still used by the Ministry of Defense, the fort is closed to the public. However, tours are organized for European Heritage Days in September.". About 7:55 AM I went back to the metro station and around 8:06 AM I boarded the M7 on the way back to the AIJ to get some more freshly charged camera batteries.

I took the M7 to Place d'Italie and changed for the M5 to Bastille. The ride went uneventful until 8:23 AM when an Eric Clapton impersonator boarded the M5 at Gare d'Austerlitz. While the train was crossing the Seine for Quai de la Rapée, he performed a nice guitar solo of "Tears in Heaven". That lasted until a minute prior to the train reaching Bastille, when he did an alto saxophone solo of a different song. The train reached Bastille about 8:30 AM.

I went one stop on the M8 to Ledru Rollin. There was a bunch of children, maybe about 50 of them, leaving the AIJ. They were lined up on the Rue du Faubourg St Antoine just after Chez Tony. I went to my room and collected one of my video camera batteries and about 9:30 AM I left for the city limit at Porte de Charenton, seven stops away from Ledru Rollin. There was a city boundary bus line that I could take to Porte de Bagnolet via Porte de Vincennes.

At Porte de Bagnolet I could take the M3 to Gambetta. Gambetta used to be a branch off the M3 line for Les Lilas, but it became a separate line known as the M3Bis. There was supposed to be a station after Porte de Lilas called Haxo, which would connect to the 7Bis line, but the plan was tabled, and it seems like Haxo would need to be reconstructed in order to be able to be used, possibly for a future M17 line or so I have heard. The 3Bis stations don't look too much different than those built in the 1920s to 1940s. The one thing I noticed about Porte des Lilas, at the north end of the 3Bis exit platform, was an upwards escalator with wooden steps. I had not seen such an escalator since the 1970s when I first rode the Northern Line in London. Back then London Underground was operating 1938 tube stock, the one with wooden flooring, similar to that of the escalators.

At Porte des Lilas, I had a quick snack of a lemon crêpe. It tasted good also with powdered sugar. Not bad for about 10 FF. I then took the M11 to Belleville and transferred to the M2 which I rode until I arrived at Anvers. Anvers is the southern access point for the Montmartre and its respective funicular train at Place Saint Pierre. The train requires the same fare as the Metro. Paris Visite is also valid. I spent maybe twenty minutes looking at the Sacre Coeur and then southeast towards Gare du Nord, République, Bagnolet and Vincennes. I saw a "living statue" standing on the pillar of the stairway to Sacre Coeur. The noontime bells rang. Then I took the funicular down. I returned again in April 2008, February 2009 and September 2011, and spent more time exploring the nouveaux artes area between Rue Norvins and Rue de Saules. Even one time I spent an evening at the Lapin Agile on Rue de Saules.

I wanted to walk from the funicular station to Pigalle. I walked from Place St Pierre on Rue d'Orsel, then Rue des Martyrs and I ended up at 12:30 PM at the Pigalle station. Sadly the Moulin Rouge was nowhere to be seen. It turns out that the actual Moulin Rouge is close to the Pigalle station and is along Boulevard de Clichy, but is closest to the Blanche station, just one metro stop away.

I caught the M2 to Place de Clichy, transferred to the M13 and went northeast to St Denis Université. At La Fourche, is the separation station, where the M13 separates for two branches, one to Gabriel Péri and the other to St Denis Université. The M13 branch to Gabriel Péri has since been extended two stations to Asnières-Gennevilliers Les Courtilles. At Saint Denis Université there was not much of touristic value to see, so I had a sandwich at a nearby bar. About 1:20 PM I took a bus which I thought would take me to the St Denis RER D station, but somehow I ended up at Garges-Sarcelles instead. I took the southbound RER D line as far as Chatelet Les Halles to connect with the RER A line for La Défense. I did not reach La Défense until 2:40 PM.

To access the Grande Arche, you have to go under the stairway kind of on the southeast side, and then go to the admissions window. Or you could go up the stairs and back down by the escalator. They were giving a 33% discount off the regular admission price because of the foggy weather. Going up is by glass elevator. I think it was about ten to twelve stories high. Access to the paying public is through the top two floors. There was an art gallery plus a room with small scale models, about 1:1,000 scale, of the Grande Arche and neighboring buildings around La Défense. There was a video about how the Grande Arche was designed and what building materials were used. Previously the outside was designed with marble, but it had to be replaced from 2010 to 2017 with granite. This may explain as to why I was unable in September 2011 to visit the Grande Arche. There were also some aerial photographic maps, of the area including Champs Elysées to La Défense, and you could see the top of the Arc de Triomphe, Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, the Orangerie, and also the Bastille.

The point of going to the top of the Grande Arche de La Défense, was to go to the observation level. As it was not raining, it was possible to go upstairs to see as far as the Arc de Triomphe, and maybe also the Eiffel Tower. The fog was so bad, that I could barely see "L'AN 2000" on the Eiffel Tower. The camera could not see it properly. The Arc de Triomphe was not much better.

I went back down about 4 PM, and walked to the Bassin Takis at Place des Pyramides, located directly above the Metro Station Esplanade de La Défense. That was the splash pool that I remember from August 1997, where the light poles had blinking lights, and they were more active during the summer. Looking southeast from there, I could see the Eiffel Tower and Arc de Triomphe. By then the fog situation may have improved, but I had already moved on.

I went for another walk about 5 PM on the Champs Elysées and then I took a ride from Auber-Boulevard Haussmann Saint Lazare station on the RER E. The escalator had a two level incline, with a flat section in the middle. Basically down – flat – down. I rode one station to Magenta. I went back to Haussmann Saint Lazare on the same line. I went into both the Printemps and Galleries de Lafayette. I think I spent an hour in total between both places.

The rest of the evening I did some more shopping and then a burger at Quick. I walked to the Place de la Concorde and the Grand Palais. At Concorde there was a large ferris wheel.

I made one last ride with the M8, to Balard. That was the western end of the line, where Créteil Préfecture was the southeast terminus. Note, it was since extended to Créteil Pointe du Lac. I spent five minutes at Balard, from 9:30 PM to 9:35 PM. Then I went back, and it took only 30 minutes to reach Ledru Rollin. I went to bed about 10:40 PM.

The next morning, Wednesday the 29th March, I woke up about 6:50 AM. I had a 1 PM flight from CDG T1 to San Francisco. I had my last breakfast at the AIJ, took a shower, packed my belongings, checked out and caught the line 86 to the Bastille metro station – so that I would not need to go up and down stairs while transferring from the M8 to the M5. I took M5 to Gare du Nord to transfer to the RER B. By 9:15 AM I was on the RER B platform and sat on a strapontin (folding seat) close to the door. I caught the 9:30 AM train to CDG T2. It stopped at Sevran Beaudottes at 9:38 AM. I arrived at the Roissypôle station at 9:50 AM. It took maybe seven minutes for the shuttle bus to arrive to take me to CDG Aérogare 1. The bus departed for the terminal using the access roads, and passing by the abandoned SK6000 railway that would eventually become part of the existing CDGVAL. The bus ended just outside the southeast end of the CDGVAL station, and everyone alighted. I entered Aérogare 1 about 10:05 AM and checked into my United flight, nonstop to San Francisco.

CDG Aérogare 1 is shaped in a circle, that just over 270 degrees can be used as airline gates. I think seven terminals exist as satellite gates, each one with an underground travellator, after clearing the initial security gates. In the middle is a large fountain, and you can see the hamster tubes with escalators.

I was not quite ready to go through the security gates and Schengen zone passport control. In the meantime I bought a few magazines, and a couple of music cassettes at the record store. I remember in August 1997 and August 1998 buying cassettes from the same place.

About 11:45 AM I crossed the security gates and had my passport stamped as having exited France and the Schengen Zone. I went on the travellator to the United Airlines terminal and waited until about 12:45 AM to board the plane. In the meantime there was a snack bar in case I were hungry.

At 1 PM the flight was ready to board. I took my place towards row 30 in the 777 aircraft. I think the flight was about 11 hours long. Since the USA at the time did not switch to daylight saving time until the first Sunday in April, the time difference between Paris and San Francisco was 10 hours.

I arrived about 2:30 PM Pacific Standard Time in San Francisco, landing at Terminal 2, having my passport checked and luggage inspected. After that, I was legally in the USA. I took the shuttle from the airport to the Millbrae Caltrain station, took the train to Hillsdale station, and transferred to the SamTrans bus line 252 to the intersection of Hillsdale and Edgewater Boulevard in Foster City. It felt good to return home. My car was still in its stall. The next day, 30th March 2000, I returned to work. My next overseas journey would be Tuesday 5th September to Wednesday 20th September 2000, and then to Italy, Austria, Germany and Switzerland, and a little bit of France at Bellegarde.

Well that was the last of my journey to Paris for March 2000. I hope you enjoyed.

Au revoir, et bonne santé!

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