Showing posts with label Côte-d'Or (21). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Côte-d'Or (21). Show all posts
29 September 2021

Alexis Piron, Dijon (21), Côte-d'Or (21)

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  I mentioned Alexis Piron (1689-1773) a few posts ago, but was interested to see a Rue Piron (dedicated to Alexis or his great-nephew Eugèn...

Léon Tolstoï and Ivan Tourgueniev, Dijon (21), Côte-d'Or (21)

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Or Leo Tolstoy and Ivan Turgenev in English. So, they stayed at Hôtel de La Cloche, Dijon (now with a 'Grand' added) between 9 and 1...
3 September 2021

Étienne-Jules Marey in Beaune (21), Côte-d'Or (21)

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Étienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904) was a doctor, physiologist and inventor who was born in Beaune and died in Paris. This monument to him in th...
31 August 2020

Jean-Philippe Rameau in Dijon, (Côte-d'Or (21))

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On Boulevard Georges Clemenceau, a statue of Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764), who was a composer and music theorist born in Dijon. ...
30 August 2020

Alexis Piron in Dijon, (Côte-d'Or (21))

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'ALEXIS PIRON POÈTE SATIRIQUE 1689 - 1773' Also in the Jardin de l'Arquebuse in Dijon is Piron's bust. H...
27 August 2020

Aloysius Bertrand in Dijon, (Côte-d'Or (21))

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Louis Jacques Napoléon Bertrand, or Aloysius Bertrand (1807-41) was a poet, playwright and journalist considered as the inventor of the pro...
14 August 2020

Boîte à lire in Montbard, Côte-d'Or (21)

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An interesting and quite fully packed one, this.

Christine O'Loughlin in Dijon, (Côte-d'Or (21))

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Like a wood shaving, this Copeau de trottoir (1991) by Christine O'Loughlin, as if a shaving from the street pavement, has an unusual...

Water Tower art in Montliot-et-Courcelles, Côte-d'Or (21)

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It's not unusual for places to decorate their water towers, as in the States for instance, although I found this one in Montliot-et-Cou...
13 August 2020

Antoinette Quarré in Dijon, (Côte-d'Or (21))

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Antoinette Suzanne Quarré (1813-47) was a working-class poet who was born in Recey-sur-Ource (Côte-d'Or) and died in Dijon. She was ...

Gloria Friedmann in Dijon, (Côte-d'Or (21))

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Gloria Friedmann (born in 1950) constructed this piece, Le Compteur du temps , in 2020, in which the times of several places around the ...

Buffon in Montbard, (Côte-d'Or (21))

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Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon (1707-1788) was a naturalist, mathematician, biologist, cosmologist, philosopher and writer who infl...
12 August 2020

Boîtes à lire in Dijon, (Côte-d'Or (21))

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Three  Boîtes à lire  (of 49!) here in Dijon (called Boîtes à livres in both French and Braille!). Disappointingly, both the first (in a wa...

Glyptodon in Dijon, (Côte-d'Or (21))

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The glyptodon (same word in French) is no longer extant, although it was a herbivorous mammal which appeared in South America about 1.8 mil...
11 August 2020

Désiré Nisard in Châtillon-sur-Seine (Côte-d'Or (21))

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The bronze bust of the writer and critic Désiré Nisard (1806-88) in Châtillon-sur-Seine (where he was born) is by Pech, and the medallions ...

Black Redstart, Montbard, (Côte-d'Or (21))

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A slightly blurred black redstart at Montbard, close to where Buffon is buried.
27 July 2020

Lavoirs in Pernand-Vergelesses (Côte-d'Or (21))

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There are a few lavoirs in Pernand-Vergelesses, although these two particularly struck me, particularly the second, which has been renovate...

Cabotte in Pernand-Vergelesses (Côte-d'Or (21))

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This structure (a little miniaturised surely?) is at a roundabout in  Pernand-Vergelesses, and is a reconstruction of a cabotte , a smal...

Jacques Copeau in Pernand-Vergelesses (Côte-d'Or (21))

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Jacques Copeau (1879-1949) was born in Paris and died in Beaune. He is a major figure in the French intellectual and cultural world, partic...
26 July 2020

Boîte à lire in Pernand-Vergelesses (Côte-d'Or (21))

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This is a superb  Boîte à lire  in Pernand-Vergelesses, imaginatively constructed out of half barrels. No Covid-19 warning signs here ...