Reserver hotel basque Paris, Les Academies
Le basque est une langue parlée au Pays basque (France et Espagne). 20 000 personnes sont unilingues bascophones. En Espagne, le nombre de locuteurs est de 734 100 (provinces de Biscaye, Álava, Guipúzcoa et de Navarre). En France, il y a plus de 67 200 locuteurs (statistique 2005), principalement dans le département des Pyrénées-Atlantiques. Le basque est aussi parlé dans la diaspora basque.
Le mot basque viendrait du nom d’un peuple antique, les Vascons (à noter qu’en espagnol, basque s’écrit vasco), qui en passant par gascon (adaptation gallo-romaine d’une prononciation germanique Waskon) a finalement donné le nom de la région que nous connaissons comme la Gascogne.
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The Basque Country (Basque: Euskal Herria) is a historical region in the western Pyrenees that spans the border between France and Spain, extending down to the coast of the Bay of Biscay. It corresponds more or less –but not exactly– with the homeland of the Basque people and language.
Basques are the least assimilated remnant of the Paleolithic inhabitants of Western Europe (specifically those of the Franco-Cantabrian region). Basque tribes were already mentioned in Roman times by Strabo and Pliny, including the Vascones, the Aquitani and others. There is enough evidence that they already spoke Basque in that time (see Aquitanian language and Iruña-Veleia). All other tribes in the Iberian Peninsula were linguistically and culturally assimilated by the end of the Roman period. The Basques had also been greatly influenced by Roman culture and language and might have become fully assimilated in a few hundred years had the Roman world not collapsed.
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Like its counterpart Montmartre, Montparnasse became famous at the beginning of the 20th century, referred to as les Années Folles (the Crazy Years), when it was the heart of intellectual and artistic life in Paris. Between 1921 and 1924, the number of Americans in Paris swelled from 6,000 to 30,000. From 1910 to the start of World War II, Paris’ artistic circles migrated to Montparnasse, an alternative to the Montmartre district which had been the intellectual breeding ground for the previous generation of artists. The Paris of Zola, Manet, France, Degas, Fauré, a group that had assembled more on the basis of status affinity than actual artistic tastes, indulging in the refinements of Dandyism, was at the opposite end of the economic, social, and political spectrum from the gritty, tough-talking, die-hard, emigrant artists that peopled Montmartre.
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Montparnasse est un quartier du sud de Paris sur la rive gauche du fleuve Seine situé autour de l’intersection du Boulevard du Montparnasse et du Boulevard Raspail. Il est situé essentiellement dans le 14e arrondissement, et a été absorbé par la ville avec d’autres communes et divisions administratives en 1860.
Le nom de ce quartier avait été donné par les étudiants voisins qui venaient déclamer des vers sur la butte formée par des remblais au XVIIe siècle, en référence au mont Parnasse, résidence des Muses de la mythologie grecque. La colline fut rasée pour tracer le boulevard du Montparnasse au XVIIIe siècle, lieu de promenade de la ville. Dès la Révolution française, de nombreuses salles de danse et cabarets s’y installèrent. Le quartier a donné son nom à une gare, un cimetière et une tour.
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The nearest metro station to access hotel des academies et des arts Paris is Vavin, line 4.
Vavin is a station of the Paris Métro, serving line 4.
The name refers to Rue Vavin, named for 18th-century statesman Alexis Vavin.
Rue Vavin is the home address of the character of French Lieutenant Audebert as played by Guillaume Canet in the 2005 Sony Pictures Classics film Joyeux Noël.
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Tour Maine-Montparnasse (Maine-Montparnasse Tower), also commonly named Tour Montparnasse is a 210-meter (689-foot) tall office skyscraper located in Paris, France, in the area of Montparnasse. Constructed from 1969 to 1972, it is the tallest skyscraper in France and the ninth tallest building in the European Union.[citation needed] In the future, it may be surpassed in height by the Tour AXA (225 m), and later by Tour Phare and Tour Generali (both approximately 300 meters).
The tower was designed by architects Eugène Beaudouin, Urbain Cassan and Louis Hoym de Marien and built by Campenon Bernard.
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This was the first French garden to be influenced by the Italian Baroque. The Luxembourg has long been seen as a quintessential Parisian space and remains very popular. It was designed for anoter Medici princess, Marie, who became Queen of France. Like the Boboli garden where Marie had spent her youth, the Luxembourg plan has two axes at right angles. Jacques Boyceau superintended the layout. Today, as in the seventeenth century, it is a good place to savour the cosmopolitan atmosphere of a rich palace garden. It has changed over the centuries but, judging from Evelyn’s description (below), the character of the garden is not so different. During a period of neglect, some of Watteau’s romantic garden scenes were painted here. The Medici Fountain was moved from its original position and does not do justice to the famous name. There are some public park facilities, including tennis courts and children’s play areas, and over a hundred sculptures, including statues of Stendhal, Chopin, Montesquieu, Phidias, Baudelaire, Delacroix and Blanche of Castile. The parterres on the fringe of the Luxembourg have been laid out in an informal ‘Anglo-Chinois’ manner. The Luxembourg Palace is now used by the French Senate.
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Le jardin du Luxembourg a été créé en 1612 à la demande de Marie de Médicis. Il a fait l’objet d’une restauration dirigée par l’architecte Jean-François-Thérèse Chalgrin, sous le Premier Empire. Il fait 23 hectares animés de parterres de fleurs et de sculptures. Il est situé dans le VIe arrondissement de Paris. Rendez-vous de prédilection des Parisiens, étudiants ou promeneurs, il attire des visiteurs du monde entier.
Situés au cœur du quartier Latin de Paris, regroupés dans l’enceinte d’une très belle grille dont les pointes sont recouvertes d’une feuille d’or, les jardins accueillent plusieurs bâtiments classés :
- le palais du Luxembourg où siège le Sénat, la chambre haute du Parlement, propriétaire du jardin dont il assure l’entretien (le jardin du Luxembourg est un jardin privé, ouvert au public).
- le musée du Luxembourg, consacré à de grandes expositions temporaires d’art, réputées pour la qualité des œuvres présentées. On accède au palais du Luxembourg et au musée par la rue de Vaugirard.
- l’Orangerie, située sur l’allée Delacroix, qui abrite une série de végétaux dits « d’orangerie », provenant du pourtour méditerranéen, que l’on retrouve dans la partie du jardin dite « à la francaise » à compter du 1er mai. L’été, l’Orangerie sert de salle d’expositions temporaires.
- l’ancien Hôtel Vendôme, aujourd’hui occupé par l’École des Mines de Paris.
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Saint-Germain-des-Prés was originally commissioned as a shelter for King Childebert I’s relic of the True Cross, broungth back from Spain in AD 542. Despite the outside’s very Romanesque architecture, inside the church are many interesting examples of 19th century art. One such piece includes a series of stained glass windows showing scenes from the Old Testament. The church currently does excellent organ concerts on its antique organ.
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Just a few steps from the Jardin du Luxembourg, opposite the Atelier de la Grande Chaumière, a well-known art school, the Hotel des Academies et des Arts remembers the roaring twenties, when Montparnasse was a magnet for artists. Inspired by the hotel’s past and the history of the neighbourhood, Charlotte and Laurent wanted to revive the Hotel des Academies et des Arts’ artistic heritage by bringing together several artists to create an original backdrop for contemporary works of art.
Sophie de Watrigant and Jérôme Mesnager have invested the place with their artistic imagination. Sophie’s sculptures are dotted around the lobby and the “petit bistrot”, going right up the main staircase, where small figures climbing ladders are suspended in the stairwell. Jérôme Mesnager’s jointed figures are painted directly onto wallpaper which serves as his canvas. Take the lift up to the top floor and admire another of Mesnager’s works as you ascend. A white giant also appears on the red-painted wall of the inner courtyard and can be seen from the ground floor right up to the fifth floor at the Hotel des Academies et des Art in Saint Germain des Pres, Paris.
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