Notice to Parisian basketball fans: the NBA House is settling in the capital for four days, from Thursday to Sunday, on the occasion of the NBA regular season match between the Chicago Bulls and the Detroit Piston in Paris. The interactive and free event NBA House will be held at the Aérogare des Invalides from January 19 to 22.To participate, fans can create a NBA ID, the league's new global membership program, and reserve up to four tickets for free...
An Alberto Giacometti museum-school, bringing together the largest collection in the world of the artist's works (1901-1966), will be set up in 2026 in the former Invalides station and the basements of the famous Parisian esplanade, announced the Giacometti Foundation on Monday.Located in this historic building, which was also the headquarters of Air France, this new place of 6,000 m2 will be equipped with “a museum presenting permanently and in rotation a large part of the some 10,000 works by...
France will salute this Wednesday the memory of Michel Bouquet. A monument of French theater who died on April 13 at the age of 96, the actor will receive a national tribute chaired by Emmanuel Macron. This will also be the first public outing of the president since his re-election.The Head of State will deliver the eulogy at the Hôtel national des Invalides, after speeches by Fabrice Luchini, Muriel Robin, who was a pupil of Michel Bouquet at the Conservatoire,...
A national tribute will be paid to actor Michel Bouquet on April 27 at the Invalides, "in accordance with the wishes of the family", the Elysée announced on Thursday.Emmanuel Macron, who will still be in office whether or not he is re-elected on April 24, will preside over the ceremony, in honor of the actor who died on Wednesday at the age of 96, and hailed by the Head of State as a "monster sacred" and an "unforgettable, irreplaceable master...
Emmanuel Macron presented, this Wednesday during a very sober ceremony at the Invalides in front of the family of the alpine hunter, the legion of honor, posthumously, to sergeant Maxime Blasco, killed in operation in Mali. The president approached the coffin of the soldier, on which he placed his hands, before pronouncing: "Sergeant Blasco, I make you an officer of the Legion of Honor." The soldier's family attended the ceremony, including his 8-year-old child, who wore the alpine hunter's pie...
A national tribute, chaired by Emmanuel Macron, will be paid Wednesday at 4:30 p.m. at the Hôtel des Invalides to French master corporal Maxime Blasco, a soldier with an “exceptional career” killed in operation in Mali, the Elysee announced on Tuesday. The funeral procession will cross the Alexandre III bridge in Paris beforehand, as per tradition. On Thursday, another tribute will be paid to him in Varces (Isère, south-east) by his brothers in arms of the 7th battalion of alpine...
[ad_1] Four days after his death Monday, at the age of 88, Jean-Paul Belmondo has the honors of a tribute to the Invalides. The ceremony began this Thursday around 4:30 p.m., with the arrival of the Republican Guard, then President Emmanuel Macron. The Head of State is to deliver a funeral eulogy in homage to the one he described as "national treasure". This national tribute should end around 5:30 p.m. with the release of the coffin to the sound of...
[ad_1] A national tribute will be paid to Jean-Paul Belmondo, who died on Monday, at the Invalides on Thursday, September 9, announced the Elysee Palace on Tuesday. Sacred monster of French cinema, Jean-Paul Belmondo died on Monday at his Parisian home at 88 years old. The actor was one of the most popular figures of the 7th Art, with 80 films to his credit, from action films to the finest hours of auteur cinema. He had been hospitalized at the...
[ad_1] It will therefore be Joséphine Baker who will have the honor of entering the Panthéon… but not Gisèle Halimi? Joséphine Baker will enter the Pantheon "because she is the embodiment of the French spirit", pleaded the Elysee Palace on Monday, the day after an article from the newspaper Le Parisien revealing the decision to honor the memory of the Franco-American artist. A national tribute in early 2022 for Gisèle Halimi Emmanuel Macron also announced Monday that a national tribute...
[ad_1] Police officers in front of the Invalides in Paris (illustration). - BETTER ROMUALD The revelers did it again. The police intervened on Saturday evening, more than an hour before the curfew, to disperse hundreds of young people gathered for the second consecutive evening on the Esplanade des Invalides in Paris. Three people were arrested at 11 p.m., according to the police headquarters. At the time of the start of the curfew, only small clusters of young people remained, who...
