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Performance Attractions In Ile-de-France

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Île-de-France , also known as the région parisienne , is one of the 18 regions of France and includes the city of Paris. It covers 12,012 square kilometres and has its own regional council and president. It had an official estimated population of of 12,246,234 as of January 1, 2018, or 18.2% of the population of France.The region is made up of eight administrative departments: Paris, Essonne, Hauts-de-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis, Seine-et-Marne, Val-de-Marne, Val-d'Oise and Yvelines. Created as the District of the Paris Region in 1961, it was renamed after the historic province of Île-de-France in 1976 when its administrative status was aligned with th...
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  • 4. How to become Parisian in one hour? Paris
    Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines; Or, How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes is a 1965 British period comedy film featuring an international ensemble cast including Stuart Whitman, Sarah Miles, Robert Morley, Terry-Thomas, James Fox, Red Skelton, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Gert Fröbe and Alberto Sordi. The film, revolving around the craze of early aviation, was directed and co-written by Ken Annakin, with a musical score by Ron Goodwin. Based on a screenplay entitled Flying Crazy, the fictional account is set in 1910, when Lord Rawnsley, an English press magnate, offers £10,000 to the winner of the Daily Post air race from London to Paris, to prove that Britain is number one in the air.
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  • 6. Le Manoir de Paris Paris
    Le Manoir de Paris is a walk-through haunted house. It is one of the former ceramic workshops of Choisy-le-Roi, in the 10th district of Paris, France.
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  • 7. Le Petit Casino Paris
    Le Touquet-Paris-Plage , commonly referred to as Le Touquet, is a commune near Étaples, in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France. It has a population of 50,355 but welcomes up to 250,000 people during the summer.Le Touquet has a reputation as the most elegant holiday resort of northern France, the playground of the Paris and Lille bourgeoisie, with many luxury hotels. Since the mid-1990s, Le Touquet's villas have become extremely fashionable amongst architecture lovers throughout Europe, rediscovering the folie of seaside architecture of both the Roaring Twenties and the 1930s. The most famous local architect is Louis Quételart.
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  • 9. Cirque d'Hiver Bouglione Paris
    The Cirque d'Hiver , located at 110 rue Amelot , has been a prominent venue for circuses, exhibitions of dressage, musical concerts, and other events, including exhibitions of Turkish wrestling and even fashion shows. The theatre was designed by the architect Jacques Ignace Hittorff and was opened by Emperor Napoleon III on 11 December 1852 as the Cirque Napoléon. The orchestral concerts of Jules Etienne Pasdeloup were inaugurated at the Cirque Napoléon on 27 October 1861 and continued for more than twenty years. The theatre was renamed Cirque d'Hiver in 1870.The nearest métro station is Filles du Calvaire.
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  • 10. La Grande Comedie Paris
    La Comédie humaine is the title of Honoré de Balzac's multi-volume collection of interlinked novels and stories depicting French society in the period of the Restoration and the July Monarchy . The Comédie humaine consists of 91 finished works and 46 unfinished works . It does not include Balzac's five theatrical plays or his collection of humorous tales, the Contes drolatiques . The title of the series is usually considered an allusion to Dante's Divine Comedy; while Ferdinand Brunetière, the famous French literary critic, suggests that it may stem from poems by Alfred de Musset or Alfred de Vigny. While Balzac sought the comprehensive scope of Dante, his title indicates the worldly, human concerns of a realist novelist. The stories are placed in a variety of settings, with characters...
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  • 11. A New Yorker in Paris Paris
    Down and Out in Paris and London is the first full-length work by the English author George Orwell, published in 1933. It is a memoir in two parts on the theme of poverty in the two cities. The first part is an account of living in near-destitution in Paris and the experience of casual labour in restaurant kitchens. The second part is a travelogue of life on the road in and around London from the tramp's perspective, with descriptions of the types of hostel accommodation available and some of the characters to be found living on the margins.
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  • 12. Chamber Music Center of Paris Paris
    The New Zealand Chamber Soloists , are a New Zealand based chamber music ensemble. The NZCS consists of prominent concerto soloists with national and international careers and extensive chamber music experience. The core of the ensemble is the piano trio consisting of New Zealand pianist, Katherine Austin, American-born cellist, James Tennant and violinist, Lara Hall. Other collaborators have included David Griffiths and baritone, clarinettist, Peter Scholes and harpsichord specialist, Rachel Griffith-Hughes. The NZCS are a professional, funded ensemble, affiliated to the Conservatorium of Music at the University of Waikato and as such, undertake a wide range of musical activities. These include local and international concerts, master class presentations, recording for national radio, Con...
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