TRAVAUX PORTE DE PARIS (EN ANGLAIS)
- 10 years ago
This is Porte de Paris in Saint-Denis, just a bit North of, say, Montmartre in Paris. It's been going through extensive renovation and has been replanned, and the works ("travaux") have been going on for more than a decade. New tramway tracks, housing, a rethinking of traffic and really everything else. It does take time, but is noisy and chaotic.
I'm from the USA, but am fully French now. I immigrated to France in '94, as the USA had become untenable for me. I was already 37 when I did this and I'm becoming increasingly disabled, so there is a lot of lurching on this clip. Also, it cuts off because the batteries were exhausted and I had forgotten to take two new ones. Sorry!
Saint-Denis has changed enormously since I moved here 20 years ago, after buying an abandoned place for cash. Over 80 languages are spoken here daily, and it's huge. It has a border contiguous with that of Paris. It could be considered the first capital of France, before Paris, and has an interesting, rich history and a basilica and much more. It was a walled Medieval city after two waves of barbarian invasions -- one around the year 700 or so. It has an island on the Seine with it's own city hall, a canal district, it had the world's first industrial zone, and really, it's big. In 20 years I'm sure I haven't seen it all.
I live near Napoleon's Legion of Honor, still there, with its beautiful park, often used to film movies. Lots of artists moved to Saint-Denis when Paris became too costly. They're still here. This could be considered "the birthplace of Communism," and the French Communist newspaper, L'HUMANITE, is still published here.
I like this better than New York! I get Paris "next door," and we have one of the largest greenmarkets in Europe here three mornings per week. It dates back to the Middle Ages. Charlemagne had his castle here, and they keep turning up prehistoric and Gallo-Roman things here when they dig. The basilica was the necropôle of the kings, and is the world's first Gothic church.
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copyright 2014 Lisa B. Falour, B.S., M.B.A.
I'm from the USA, but am fully French now. I immigrated to France in '94, as the USA had become untenable for me. I was already 37 when I did this and I'm becoming increasingly disabled, so there is a lot of lurching on this clip. Also, it cuts off because the batteries were exhausted and I had forgotten to take two new ones. Sorry!
Saint-Denis has changed enormously since I moved here 20 years ago, after buying an abandoned place for cash. Over 80 languages are spoken here daily, and it's huge. It has a border contiguous with that of Paris. It could be considered the first capital of France, before Paris, and has an interesting, rich history and a basilica and much more. It was a walled Medieval city after two waves of barbarian invasions -- one around the year 700 or so. It has an island on the Seine with it's own city hall, a canal district, it had the world's first industrial zone, and really, it's big. In 20 years I'm sure I haven't seen it all.
I live near Napoleon's Legion of Honor, still there, with its beautiful park, often used to film movies. Lots of artists moved to Saint-Denis when Paris became too costly. They're still here. This could be considered "the birthplace of Communism," and the French Communist newspaper, L'HUMANITE, is still published here.
I like this better than New York! I get Paris "next door," and we have one of the largest greenmarkets in Europe here three mornings per week. It dates back to the Middle Ages. Charlemagne had his castle here, and they keep turning up prehistoric and Gallo-Roman things here when they dig. The basilica was the necropôle of the kings, and is the world's first Gothic church.
cutecatfaith.com
Dailymotion: LisaFalour
YouTube: SLOBOMOTION, CUTECATFAITH
copyright 2014 Lisa B. Falour, B.S., M.B.A.