#Pierre Mignot

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. Is that fashion, is it? I mean is there a message out there?

Prêt-à-porter, Robert Altman (1994)

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Claudine Françoise Mignot (1624-1711) By Pierre Mignard.

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Photos of cast members at rehearsal's

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Part 13 - Incoming Text for Marco Perego Saldana (@pirateyadimar): “An Idea Worth 500 Million Dollars”

Question:

Could you provide a detailed overview of the film Prêt-à-Porter (Ready to Wear), including the names of all the actors involved, the producers, the writers, the directors, and whether it was based on a book or a screenplay? I would like to know everything about it. Thank you!

For further details, you can check the full article on Wikipedia. (click on the blue link)

ChatGPT Answer:

Prêt-à-Porter (Ready to Wear) is a 1994 American satirical comedy-drama film directed, co-written, and produced by Robert Altman. Here’s a comprehensive overview of the film:

General Information

Release Dates:

December 23, 1994 (New York City)

December 25, 1994 (United States)

Running Time: 133 minutes

Country: United States

Languages: English, French, Italian, Russian, Spanish

Budget: Estimated at $18 million

Box Office: $46.8 million

Plot Summary

The film is set during Paris Fashion Week and follows a wide array of characters from different backgrounds, including designers, models, and journalists, as they navigate the fashion industry. It offers a satirical look at the world of fashion, highlighting its absurdities and glamor.

Cast

Anouk Aimée

Marcello Mastroianni

Sophia Loren

Kim Basinger

Stephen Rea

Lauren Bacall

Julia Roberts

Tim Robbins

Lili Taylor

Sally Kellerman

Tracey Ullman

Linda Hunt

Rupert Everett

Forest Whitaker

Richard E. Grant

Danny Aiello

Teri Garr

Lyle Lovett

Jean Rochefort

Michel Blanc

Jean-Pierre Cassel

Ute Lemper

Anne Canovas

François Cluzet

Tatjana Patitz

Production Team

Director: Robert Altman

Writers:

Robert Altman

Barbara Shulgasser

Producers:

Robert Altman

Cinematography:

Jean Lépine

Pierre Mignot

Editing:

Geraldine Peroni

Suzy Elmiger

Music: Michel Legrand

Distributor: Miramax Films

Background

Prêt-à-Porter was filmed on location during Paris Fashion Week and featured numerous cameos from international stars, models, and designers, making it a unique project that blends fiction with the real-world glamour of the fashion industry.

Additional Notes

The film does not appear to be directly based on a book; it is an original screenplay created by Altman and Shulgasser. Its satirical tone reflects Altman's signature style of blending comedy with social commentary.

For further details, you can check the full article on Wikipedia. (click on the blue link)

Here is the Trailer: Ready to Wear (1994 -Prêt-à-porter) Official Trailer - Sophia Loren, Julia Roberts Movie HD

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The Battle of Rivière-Ouelle

In 1690, Québec's Governor Frontenac sent ships to raid English settlements in New York and New England. British General Phips of Boston retaliated by sending ships to attack Acadia. Caught by surprise, Acadia was taken on May 21, 1690. Phips’ next target was Québec.

On his way up the St. Lawrence River, Phips decided to burn and loot villages, one such being Rivière-Ouelle.

Rivière-Ouelle, and below, a map showing individual inhabitants listed by name.

According to 19th century writer, H. R. Casgrain:

“One morning in the month of October 1690, a considerable detachment of Canadian settlers, armed for war, strode through the forest of spruce, fir and maple trees that still shade the edge of the River Ouelle.

The leader of the militia was none other than the parish priest, Father Francheville, a fifty-year old of fiery and impetuous character. "My friends," he told the men of the village earlier, "the news is about war. I just learned by letters from Québec, the English intend to seize the country to avenge the defeats we have inflicted upon them. It seems that a fleet of over 30 sails will soon appear. Already M. de Frontenac has sent detachments of militia to both sides of the river to prevent the enemy from making any landing. It must be believed that our governor is relying on your courage, since he sent none of his soldiers here. I would not recognize you were you to be so cowardly as to allow these Bostonian miscreats to land without firing a shot. You know what awaits you if you allow them to succeed: they will burn your houses, your church, desecrate what's holy as they have already done elsewhere, and they will drag everyone into captivity, you, your wives and children. Take arms and be ready for the first signal. "

Thus prepared, the inhabitants of Rivière-Ouelle opened fire when the British disembarked, killing and wounding many British and causing the remainder to retreat back to their ship. Similarly, Governor Frontenac, who was awaiting the British further up the St. Laurence, used forces to repell further attacks, destroying nine British ships in the process.

Some of the Canadians who successfully defended the small settlement of Rivière-Ouelle that day were:

Robert Lévesque

Pierre Hudon dit Beaulieu

Charles Miville

Jean Miville

Galleran Boucher and his two sons, Pierre and Philippe

Michel Bouchard and his three sons, Étienne, François and Pierre

Pierre Dancosse

Guillaume Lisot and his son, Claude

René Ouellet and four of his children, Abraham, Mathurin-René, Grégoire and Joseph

Jean Pelletier

Jean Lebel and his son, Jean-Baptiste

Pierre Emond

Mathurin Dubé

Jean Mignot dit Labrie

Noël Pelletier

Jean Gauvin and his son, Jean

Pierre de Saint-Pierre

Nicolas Durant and his son, Nicolas

François Autin

Sébastien Boivin

Jean de Lavoye

Sources:

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C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005)

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Director: Jean-Marc Vallée

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Cinematography: Pierre Mignot

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Secrete session Dur et Doux - French label brought 15 musicians together for three days resulting in some skronky jazz & rock with a couple folk & ambient tracks as well

Les Secrètes Sessions is the realm of musical swapping! You take a bunch of musicians and put them in a studio for 3 days. For 2 hours, they mingle to create and record original songs. In June 2022 Dur et Doux curated Les Secrètes sessions for a unique creation. More than a project, the Secrètes Sessions are a real human experience which (re)places the meeting, the unexpected, the freedom of expression and the conviviality in the heart of the musical creation process.

Musicians Mélissa Acchiardi, Anthony Béard, Guillaume Bertrand, Myriam Bovis, Cynthia Caubisens, Pierre Chanel, Maud Chapoutier, Rémi Foucrier, Stéphane Giner, Pierre Glorieux, Guillaume Lagache, Guilhem Meier, François Mignot, Estelle Mouge, Judith Saurel.

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"Modèle d'Aigrette" de Pierre Marchand (circa 1623) et illustration attribuée à Daniel Mignot (circa 1590) présentées à la conférence “Le XVIIe Siècle à la Cour de France” par Julie Rohou - Conservateur du Patrimoine au Musée National de la Renaissance - Château d'Ecouen - pendant le cycle de cours d'été “De la Parure de Cour à la Joaillerie Parisienne : Une Histoire du Bijou” de l'Ecole du Louvre, juillet 2021.

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Rue mermoz besancon

Nantes - CHU de Nantes, Hôpital Nord-Laennec Rouen - CHU de Rouen, Hôpital Charles-Nicolle Lille - CHU de Lille, Hôpital Roger SalengroĬaen - CHU de Caen, Hôpital Côte de Nacre Toulouse - CHU de Toulouse, Hôpital Purpan Montpellier - CHU de Montpellier, Hôpital Gui de Chauliac Versailles - CH de Versailles, Hôpital André-Mignot Saint-Denis - CH de Saint-Denis, Hôpital Delafontaine Paris - Assistance Publique des Hôpitaux de Paris (APHP), Hôpital Bicêtre – EnfantsĬHU (données transmises une fois les patients majeurs)įondation et correspondants neurologues libéraux Rennes - CHU de Rennes, Hôpital PontchaillouĬorbeil-Essonnes - CH de Corbeil-Essonnes Saint-Etienne - CHU de Saint-Etienne, Hôpital NordĬHU et réseau hospitalier régional partiel et réseau régional de soins 1īesançon - CHU de Besançon, Hôpital Jean Minjozīrest - CHRU de Brest, Hôpital de la Cavale Blanche Lyon - Hospices Civils de Lyon, Hôpital Neurologique Pierre Wertheimer Grenoble - CHU de Grenoble, Hôpital de la Tronche Limoges - CHU de Limoges, Hôpital DupuytrenĬlermont-Ferrand - CHU de Clermont-Ferrand, Hôpital Gabriel Montpied Strasbourg - CHU de Strasbourg, Hôpital Civilīordeaux - CHU de Bordeaux, Hôpital Pellegrin Reims - CHU de Reims, Hôpital Maison Blanche Registre populationnel lorrain de la SEP 3 It aims at fostering clinical research with relevance to multiple sclerosis and related disorders, provided the studies are using data collected by the Observatoire Français de la Sclérose en Plaques (OFSEP) and/or will collect new data that will enrich the OFSEP cohort. More details on the EDMUS Foundation website. The EDMUS Foundation, in partnership with the ARSEP Foundation, launches its fourth call for research proposals. The EDMUS Foundation, in partnership with the ARSEP Foundation, launches its fifth call for research proposals. The EDMUS Foundation, in partnership with the ARSEP Foundation, launches its sixth call for research proposals. EDMUS Foundation / OFSEP Call for research proposals Developpement de nouvelles méthodes en intelligence artificielle pour la prédiction de progression de la SEP.Evaluation en vie réelle des aspects multiples de la sclérose en plaques progressive.Préserver la fonction neurologique dans la SEP agressive.Etude de l'atrophie thalamique à l'échelle des noyaux individuels dans la SEP.Caractéristiques traitements des SEP très actives.Facteurs pronostiques à court terme des syndromes radiologiques isolés (RIS).

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12 Paris-based VCs look at the state of their city

Four years after the Great Recession, France’s newly elected socialist president François Hollande raised taxes and increased regulations on founder-led startups. The subsequent flight of entrepreneurs to places like London and Silicon Valley portrayed France as a tough place to launch a company. By 2016, France’s national statistics bureau estimated that about three million native-born citizens had moved abroad.

Those who remained fought back: The Family was an early accelerator that encouraged French entrepreneurs to adopt Silicon Valley’s startup methodology, and the 2012 creation of Bpifrance, a public investment bank, put money into the startup ecosystem system via investors. Organizers founded La French Tech to beat the drum about native startups.

When President Emmanuel Macron took office in May 2017, he scrapped the wealth tax on everything except property assets and introduced a flat 30% tax rate on capital gains. Station F, a giant startup campus funded by billionaire entrepreneur Xavier Niel on the site of a former railway station, began attracting international talent. Tony Fadell, one of the fathers of the iPod and founder of Nest Labs, moved to Paris to set up investment firm Future Shape; VivaTech was created with government backing to become one of Europe’s largest startup conference and expos.

Now, in the COVID-19 era, the government has made €4 billion available to entrepreneurs to keep the lights on. According to a recent report from VC firm Atomico, there are 11 unicorns in France, including BlaBlaCar, OVHcloud, Deezer and Veepee. More appear to be coming; last year Macron said he wanted to see “25 French unicorns by 2025.”

According to Station F, by the end of August, there had been 24 funding rounds led by international VCs and a few big transactions. Enterprise artificial intelligence and machine-learning platform Dataiku raised a $100 million Series D round, and Paris-based gaming startup Voodoo raised an undisclosed amount from Tencent Holdings.

We asked 12 Paris -based investors to comment on the state of play in their city:

Alison Imbert, partner, Partech

Alexandre Mordacq, partner, 360 Capital Partners

Emmanuel Delaveau, partner, Partech

Boris Golden, partner, Partech

Jean de La Rochebrochard, managing partner, Kima Ventures

Paul Bolardi, associate, AXA Venture Partners

Shiraz Mahfoudhi, Speedinvest

Guillaume Dupont, founding partner, CapHorn

Martin Mignot, partner, Index Ventures

Bartosz Jakubowski, principal, Alven

Pierre Entremont, founding partner, Frst Capital

Pierre-Eric Leibovici, founding partner, Daphni

Alison Imbert, Partech

What trends are you most excited about investing in, generally?

All the fintechs addressing SMBs to help them to focus more on their core business (including banks disintermediation by fintech, new infrastructures tech that are lowering the barrier to entry to nonfintech companies).

What’s your latest, most exciting investment?

77foods (plant-based bacon) — love that alternative proteins trend as well. Obviously, we need to transform our diet toward more sustainable food. It’s the next challenge for humanity.

What are you looking for in your next investment, in general? Impact investment: Logistic companies tackling the life cycle of products to reduce their carbon footprint and green fintech that reinvent our spending and investment strategy around more sustainable products.

Which areas are either oversaturated or would be too hard to compete in at this point for a new startup? What other types of products/services are you wary or concerned about? D2C products.

How much are you focused on investing in your local ecosystem versus other startup hubs (or everywhere) in general? More than 50%? Less? 100% investing in France as I’m managing Paris Saclay Seed Fund, a €53 million fund, investing in pre-seed and seed startups launched by graduates and researchers from the best engineering and business schools from this ecosystem.

Which industries in your city and region seem well-positioned to thrive, or not, long term? What are companies you are excited about (your portfolio or not), which founders? Deep tech, biotech and medical devices. Paris, and France in general, has thousands of outstanding engineers that graduate each year. Researchers are more and more willing to found companies to have a true impact on our society. I do believe that the ecosystem is more and more structured to help them to build such companies.

How should investors in other cities think about the overall investment climate and opportunities in your city? Paris is booming for sure. It’s still behind London and Berlin probably. But we are seeing more and more European VC offices opening in the city to get direct access to our ecosystem. Even in seed rounds, we start to have European VCs competing against us. It’s good — that means that our startups are moving to the next level.

Do you expect to see a surge in more founders coming from geographies outside major cities in the years to come, with startup hubs losing people due to the pandemic and lingering concerns, plus the attraction of remote work? For sure startups will more and more push for remote organizations. It’s an amazing way to combine quality of life for employees and attracting talent. Yet I don’t think it will be the majority. Not all founders are willing/able to build a fully remote company. It’s an important cultural choice and it’s adapted to a certain type of business. I believe in more flexible organization (e.g., tech team working remotely or 1-2 days a week for any employee).

Which industry segments that you invest in look weaker or more exposed to potential shifts in consumer and business behavior because of COVID-19? What are the opportunities startups may be able to tap into during these unprecedented times? Travel and hospitality sectors are of course hugely impacted. Yet there are opportunities for helping those incumbents to face current challenges (e.g., better customer care and services, stronger flexibility, cost reduction and process automation).

How has COVID-19 impacted your investment strategy? What are the biggest worries of the founders in your portfolio? What is your advice to startups in your portfolio right now? Cash is king more than ever before. My only piece of advice will be to keep a good level of cash as we have a limited view on events coming ahead. It’s easy to say but much more difficult to put in practice (e.g., to what extend should I reduce my cash burn? Should I keep on investing in the product? What is the impact on the sales team?). Startups should focus only on what is mission-critical for their clients. Yet it doesn’t impact our seed investments as we invest pre-revenue and often pre-product.

What is a moment that has given you hope in the last month or so? This can be professional, personal or a mix of the two. There is no reason to be hopeless. Crises have happened in the past. Humanity has faced other pandemics. Humans are resilient and resourceful enough to adapt to a new environment and new constraints.

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Portraits of each character in the play. Each quote is either from the pictured person, or Emilie Du Chatelet.

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BİSİKLET SÜREN KOCA ÇOCUKLAR

"Hayat bisiklete binmek gibidir. Dengede kalmak için hareket etmeye devam etmen gerekir." ~ Albert Einstein

Hayatı bazıları bir kutu çikolataya, bazıları da bisiklet sürmeye benzetir.

Sinemanın kült filmlerinden "Forest Gump"ın bir sahnesinde Tom Hank şöyle der: "Hayat bir kutu çikolata gibidir. İçinden neyin çıkacağı asla belli olmaz."

Bu yaklaşım kaderci bir duruşu betimliyor. Ancak bizler, hayatı bu biçimde yaşayamayız.

Hayat mücadele gerektirir. Çalışma, disiplin ve sevgi.

Yaşamak için çok şey gerekebilir belki ama emin olun her biri, bizi daha iyiye götüren anahtarın ta kendisidir. Tıpkı bisiklet sürmek gibi. Ünlü bisikletçi Greg LeMond’da kendi tarzı ile hayatı şu sözle özetliyor. "Asla daha kolay hale gelmez, sadece sen daha hızlı gidersin."

Albert Einstein'ın yaklaşımı ise hepsinin üstünde: “Hayat bisiklet sürmek gibidir.”

Bisiklet, çoğumuzun çocukluk hayalidir. Kimi zaman bir karne hediyesi, kimi zaman da bir başka başarının ödülüdür. Tıpkı hayat gibi...

Hayat bizlere bahşedilen bir hediye ise hayatta kalabilmek de bir başarıdır. Ancak bu süreçte çoğu zaman tek başınasındır.

Anlamlar, tercihler, sorunlar ve çözümler; her daim kendi zihninde yahut bedenindedir. Tıpkı bir bisiklet ve sürücüsü gibi. O da tek kişiliktir ve yönlendiricisi de o, tek kişidir.

Fotoğraf: Tour of Flanders (Flaman Harikası) / Ronde van Vlaanderen / Koppenberg / 1985

Bisiklet, insan sınırlarını zorlayan inanılmaz bir makinadır. Bisiklet hele ki profesyonel olarak yapılan bir spor ise; çekilen acılar ve yapılan fedakarlıklar da bir o kadar fazla olur.

Acı ve tekrar acı...

Çoğu zaman sadece bundan ibaret kalır. Ancak en sonunda o acılardan bir mutluluk da doğabilir.

Çektiğin bütün zorluklara ve acılara rağmen bir çözüm, bir çıkış yolu bulunmuş ve kendi sınırlarını aşmışsındır. Bir başkası ile yapılan mücadele ya da yarış değil bu. Kendinle, kendi limitlerin ve kendi sınırların ile.

Hayatımızın ilk evresinde tanıştığımız bisikletin çok ötesinde bir kavram, “Profesyonel Bisikletçi”lik.

Ama her daim o çocuksu yanla yapılır. Çünkü sürekli bir inatlaşma içerisindesindir. Her zaman daha fazlasını yapabilmek için didinir durursun. Düşersin, kalkarsın ama asla vazgeçmezsin. Aksine tekrar tekrar denemenin bir kamçısıdır, düşüp kalkmak.

Birçoğumuz profesyonel bisikletçişikle "Fransa Bisiklet Turu" (Tour de France) ile tanıştık. Ardından "Cumhurbaşkanlığı Bisiklet Turu" diye birşey işitti kulaklarımız. Amaç hep aynı “İnsanoğlunun kendi ile imtahanı”

İlk bisiklet turu 1868’de koşulmaya başlandı. Günümüze kadar uzanan süreçte pek çok yarış koşuldu, bunların bazıları geleneksel hale geldi.

Liege turu 1892’de, Paris-Roubaix 1896’da, Fransa Turu 1903’te, İtalya Turu (Giro) 1909’da, Flanders Turu 1913’te başladı ve her geçen sene daha fazla katılımla devam etmekteler.

İçlerinden en prestijlisi elbetteki Fransa Bisiklet Turu’dur. Bu sene 1-23 Temmuz tarihlerinde koşulacak yarış, dünyanın en fazla takip edilen spor organizasyonlarından biri. Peki Fransa Bisiklet Turu yalnızca bir spor organizasyonu olarak mı planlandı?

Jean-François Mignot, “Fransa Turu Tarihi (Histoire du Tour de France)” adlı kitabında bu prestijli spor organizasyonunu şu sözle tanımlıyor: “Tur daha başından itibaren siyasi ve iktisadi bir 'girişim'dir. 1903’te başlayan Fransa Turu, aşırı sağcı gazeteci ve politikacı Maurice Barrès ve çok geniş ölçüde Dreyfus karşıtı sanayicilerin işidir. Bu niteliğiyle Fransa’nın politik tarihi üzerine bilgi vermesi son derece olasıdır. Bir başka deyişle Tur, üç unsurun kesiştiği bir noktada duruyor. Bunlar siyaset, iktisat ve popüler kültürdür.”

Mignot, Tur’un ortaya çıkış hikayesini de şu şekilde anlatıyor:

“1898’de ülkenin en çok satan spor gazetesi Le Vélo’dur ve Dreyfus vakasında “sol” bir tavır almıştır. Bu durum dönemin Dreyfus karşıtı “otomobil” sanayicilerini kızdırır. Yüksek ilan fiyatlarını da bahane ederek kendi gazeteleri L’Auto- Vélo’yi çıkarmaya karar verirler. Hukuki zorunluluklar nedeniyle gazetenin isminden “Vélo” sözcüğü çıkarılarak L’Auto olarak kalır. Gazete, dönemin gözde bisiklet organizasyonlarıyla ilgilenen büyük okur kitlesini kendisine çekebilmek için Fransa’yı turlayacak, bu yarış düzenlemeye karar verir. Plan o kadar başarılı olur ki, gazete, en çok satan spor gazetesi olma unvanını İkinci Dünya Savaşı’na kadar kimseye kaptırmaz.

Fotoğraf: Tour de France 1928 / Photo by: Henri Cartier-Bresson

Düzenleyiciler, yalnızca gazete tirajları ile ilgili değillerdir. Yine dönemin popüler kültür unsurlarını kullanarak tüketim toplumunun “ihtiyaçları”nı karşılamayı da görev, daha doğrusu “iş” bilirler. Tur’un hemen her aşaması bir reklam panosu olarak kullanılır. Hatta 1930’lu yıllardan itibaren bir Tur Karavanı olgusu yaratılır. Yol kenarlarında yarışı izlemeye gelen seyirciler için bir panayır havası yaratılır; tüketim teşvik edilir. Yol kenarındaki izleyiciler deyip geçmemek lazım; 1960’larda Tur’a kendi gözleriyle canlı tanıklık yapmak isteyen insanların sayısının o dönemdeki Fransa nüfusunun %40’ını bulduğu söylenmektedir.

Şunu hatırdan çıkarmayalım ki, Tur’un 1930’lara kadar gelen ilk döneminde kitle iletişim aracı olarak yalnızca gazete kullanılabilmektedir. Tur’un etaplarının saatleri de, gazetelerin basılış ve piyasaya çıkış saatlerine göre düzenlenmiştir. 1930’larla birlikte, radyonun devreye girmesi ile birlikte, etap saatleri yeniden düzenlenir. Nihayet 1970’lerle birlikte, hele canlı yayınların da başlaması ile Tur başlı başına bir ekonomi haline gelir. Çok basit bir örnek, sporcuların mayolarının renkleri bile artık, televizyonda verdikleri fotoğrafa göre belirlenmektedir.”

Fransa Bisiklet Turu’nun öyküsü bu. Ama öykü sadece bundan ibaret değil. İçinde birçok insan hikâyesi de barındırıyor. Başta da belirttik ya: “Hayat, bisiklete binmek gibidir”...

İşte onlardan bazıları;

1904’te lastiği patlayan Henri Cornet son etapta 35 kilometreyi patlak lastikle gider. 1909’da Henri Alavoine, sonuncu etabın son 10 kilometresini bisikleti sırtında, yaya olarak tamamlar. 1913’te Eugene Christophe, Tourmalet Boğazı’nda bir araç tarafından devrilen bisikletinin dirgen maşası kırılınca 14 km. yaya yürür ve bisikletini Sainte-Marie-de-Campan’daki bir demircide, yardım almadan dört saatte onarır (Bisikletçilerin onarım için dış yardım alması yasaktır). 1928’de yine bisikleti kırılan Nicolas Frantz, Metz-Charville etabının son 100 kilometresini bir kadın bisikletinde tamamlayarak genel klasmandaki birinciliğini korumayı başarır.

Bütün bu hikayeler ve daha fazlaları için bisikletçilere özel birkaç lakap takılmıştır. “Yolun Kürek Mahkumları”, “Bisikletin Proleterleri” gibi. Bisikletçiler içlerindeki o küçük çocuk inatçılıklarını, amatör ruhları ile mitolojik bir kahramana, bir Titan’a dönüşmüşlerdir.

Fotoğraf: Tour de France 1939 / Photo by: Robert Capa

Hikayeler bazen bir bisikletçinin dışına çıkıp bir fotoğrafçıyı da konunun içine dahil edebilir.

“2. Dünya Savaşı'na günler kala Fransa Turu. Bu sefer bisikletçiler, aynı 20 kişinin önlerinden geçmiş. Bu grup içerisinde şampiyon bisikletçi Pierrot Cloarec de var. Quimper'de babası Pierre Cloarec'in bisiklet dükkanının önünde; saatlerce bekledikten sonra, saniyeler süren geçişin ardından bakıyorlar. Ama pişman değiller. Tam tersine. Monsieur Cloarec dükkanın sahibi olmasının yanı sıra, bu fotodan bir önceki günkü Rennes-Brest etabını da kazanan bisikletçisi. Bu etapta da kendi dükkanının önünden geçiyor. 13 Temmuz 1939'da, savaştan hemen önce bu kareyi yakalayan Capa'nın, bu dükkan önünde çektiği tüm fotoğraflar Tour de France'ın neşesini, güzelliğini, katışıksız insanlığını ve karakterini anlamak için bakılması gereken en önemli kaynaklar. Capa ününü İspanya İç Savaşı'ndan başlayarak çektiği savaş zamanı fotoğraflarıyla elde etmiştir. Bilhassa da bu bisiklet dükkanına çok yakın gerçekleşen Normandiya Çıkarması sırasında çektikleriyle. Ama sanırım en sevdikleri Tour de France'daki bu çocuklardır. Henüz savaşın acılarını yaşamamış çocuklar.” – Caner Eler

Yazan: Türker ÖZDİL

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"The Blue Butterfly" by Lea Pool (2004)

“The Blue Butterfly” by Lea Pool (2004)

5 Fridays with Lea Pool (3)

Great nature and wild life / Text and humor fall sometimes flat Lea Pool’s distinguishing feature: a strong mother-child relationship and two absent fathers

Cast: Marc Donato, William Hurt, Pascale Bussières Director: Léa Pool Writer: Pete McCormack Music by Stephen Endelman Cinematography by Pierre Mignot Film Editing by Michel Arcand

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Pierres de discorde à Villars-Fontaine

Le maire de Villars-Fontaine, Pierre Lignier, a transformé une carrière de pierre abandonnée en amphithéâtre à ciel ouvert, où se produisent chaque année lors du festival Street Art on the Rocles meilleurs street artistes mondiaux. Aujourd’hui, il est poursuivi pénalement pour un supposé « vol de pierres » sur le site qu’il a fait déblayer sur la commune des Hautes-Côte de Nuits. La procédure…

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January 05 in Music History

1596 Birth of English choir director and composer Henry Lawes in Dinton, Whiltshire. 

1640 Birth of Italian composer Paolo Lorenzani in Rome. 

1649 FP of Francesco Cavalli's Opera l Giasone at Teatro Cassiano, in Venice.

1677 FP of Lully's opera Isis in Paris.

1681 Italian composer Giovanni Legrenzi takes position of music director at St. Mark's in Venice. 

1690 FP of Alessandro Scarlatti's opera La Statira in Teatro Tordinona, Rome.

1740 Death and 1667 Birth of Italian composer Antonio Lotti in Venice. 

1745 FP of Handel's musical drama Hercules.

1786 Birth of German conductor, organist and composer Johann Schneider in Alt-Waltersdorf 1857 Birth of American bass David Bispham in Philadelphia. 

1868 Birth of American bariton and coach Oscar Saenger in Brooklyn, N Y. 

1868 FP of final version of Max Bruch's Violin Concerto in g, Op. 26 with Karl Martin Rheintahler conducting and Joseph Joachim soloist, in Bremen.

1871 Birth of American composer Frederick Shepherd Converse in Newton MA. 

1872 Birth of tenor Otakar Marak in Ostrihom, 

1873 Birth of tenor Karl Jorn in Riga, Latvia. 

1875 Birth of English baritone and coach Alberto Garcia in London. 

1875 Opening of the Palais Garnier, Paris Opera building.

1880 Birth of Russian composer and pianist Nikolai Medtner in Moscow.

1883 FP of Barbieri's "De Gitafe al paraiso" in Madrid. 1884 FP of Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta Princess Ida in London. 

1888 Death of Austrian composer and pianist Henri Herz in Paris. 

1891 Death of American soprano Emma Abbott. 

1894 Birth of tenor Gaston Micheletti in Tavaco, 

1904 Birth of Austrian born American violinist Erica Morini in Vienna. 

1904 Birth of mezzo-soprano Marie Pixova in Prague. 

1915 Birth of soprano Uta Graf.

1915 Death of mezzo-soprano Jeanne Gerville-Reache.

1917 Birth of English composer Reginald Smith Brindle.

1920 Birth of Italian pianist Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli in Brescia. 

1924 Birth of American soprano Doris Jung in Centralia, Illinois. 

1929 Birth of Italian conductor and composer Romulus Franceschini.

1930 Birth of American composer Frederick Tillis 

1930 Birth of Hungarian born British conductor Laszlo Heltay. 1931 Birth of Austrian pianist Alfred Brendel in Wiesenburg, Moravia. 

1932 FP of Marurice Ravel's Piano Concerto in D for the left hand, commissioned by Paul Wittgenstein, in Vienna. 

1941 FP of Mark Blitzstein's opera No for an Answer in NYC.

1942 Birth of Italian pianist Maurizio Pollini in Milan. 

1949 Birth of soprano Wilhemenia Fernandez. 

1949 FP of Henry Cowell's Symphony No. 5. in Washington, D. C.

1949 FP of Morton Gould's Fall River Legend Symphonic Suite with Pierre Monteux conducting SF Sym.

1953 American debut of pianist-conductor Philippe Entremont. 

1954 Birth of  mezzo-soprano Janine Roebuck in Barnsley. 

1957 Birth of American composer, conductor and violinist Roger Zahab in Akron, OH. 

1959 FP of John Cage's Fontana Mix in NYC.

1961 FP of Easley Blackwood's Symphony No. 2 A commissioned by music publisher G. Schirmer to celebrate their centenary, in Cleveland.

1962 Birth of American composer Joe Monzo in Philadelphia, PA. 

1962 FP of Ross Lee Finney's Piano Quintet No. 2, in Los Angeles, CA.

1967 Death of Austrian soprano Luise Helletsgruber 

1970 Birth of American composer Daniel Felsenfeld. 

1970 Death of Catalan-born British composer Roberto Gerhard, at age 73, in Cambridge, England. 

1973 FP of Pierre Boulez' Explosante-Fixe in NYC. 

1974 Death of Russian pianist Lev Oborin in Moscow, age 66. 

1974 Death of baritone Wolfgang Anheisser. 

1976 Death of French composer Georges Mignot in Levallois, suburban Paris. 

1983 Death of bass Tugomir Franc.

1992 Death of Columbian composer Hans Federico Neuman in Barranquilla.  2016 Death of French composer and conductor Pierre Boulez

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12 Paris-based VCs look at the state of their city

Four years after the Great Recession, France’s newly elected socialist president François Hollande raised taxes and increased regulations on founder-led startups. The subsequent flight of entrepreneurs to places like London and Silicon Valley portrayed France as a tough place to launch a company. By 2016, France’s national statistics bureau estimated that about three million native-born citizens had moved abroad.

Those who remained fought back: The Family was an early accelerator that encouraged French entrepreneurs to adopt Silicon Valley’s startup methodology, and the 2012 creation of Bpifrance, a public investment bank, put money into the startup ecosystem system via investors. Organizers founded La French Tech to beat the drum about native startups.

When President Emmanuel Macron took office in May 2017, he scrapped the wealth tax on everything except property assets and introduced a flat 30% tax rate on capital gains. Station F, a giant startup campus funded by billionaire entrepreneur Xavier Niel on the site of a former railway station, began attracting international talent. Tony Fadell, one of the fathers of the iPod and founder of Nest Labs, moved to Paris to set up investment firm Future Shape; VivaTech was created with government backing to become one of Europe’s largest startup conference and expos.

Now, in the COVID-19 era, the government has made €4 billion available to entrepreneurs to keep the lights on. According to a recent report from VC firm Atomico, there are 11 unicorns in France, including BlaBlaCar, OVHcloud, Deezer and Veepee. More appear to be coming; last year Macron said he wanted to see “25 French unicorns by 2025.”

According to Station F, by the end of August, there had been 24 funding rounds led by international VCs and a few big transactions. Enterprise artificial intelligence and machine-learning platform Dataiku raised a $100 million Series D round, and Paris-based gaming startup Voodoo raised an undisclosed amount from Tencent Holdings.

We asked 12 Paris-based investors to comment on the state of play in their city:

Alison Imbert, partner, Partech

Alexandre Mordacq, partner, 360 Capital Partners

Emmanuel Delaveau, partner, Partech

Boris Golden, partner, Partech

Jean de La Rochebrochard, managing partner, Kima Ventures

Paul Bolardi, associate, AXA Venture Partners

Shiraz Mahfoudhi, Speedinvest

Guillaume Dupont, founding partner, CapHorn

Martin Mignot, partner, Index Ventures

Bartosz Jakubowski, principal, Alven

Pierre Entremont, founding partner, Frst Capital

Pierre-Eric Leibovici, founding partner, Daphni

10 Berlin-based VCs discuss how COVID-19 has changed the landscape

Alison Imbert, Partech

What trends are you most excited about investing in, generally?

All the fintechs addressing SMBs to help them to focus more on their core business (including banks disintermediation by fintech, new infrastructures tech that are lowering the barrier to entry to nonfintech companies).

What’s your latest, most exciting investment?

77foods (plant-based bacon) — love that alternative proteins trend as well. Obviously, we need to transform our diet toward more sustainable food. It’s the next challenge for humanity.

What are you looking for in your next investment, in general? Impact investment: Logistic companies tackling the life cycle of products to reduce their carbon footprint and green fintech that reinvent our spending and investment strategy around more sustainable products.

Which areas are either oversaturated or would be too hard to compete in at this point for a new startup? What other types of products/services are you wary or concerned about? D2C products.

How much are you focused on investing in your local ecosystem versus other startup hubs (or everywhere) in general? More than 50%? Less? 100% investing in France as I’m managing Paris Saclay Seed Fund, a €53 million fund, investing in pre-seed and seed startups launched by graduates and researchers from the best engineering and business schools from this ecosystem.

Which industries in your city and region seem well-positioned to thrive, or not, long term? What are companies you are excited about (your portfolio or not), which founders? Deep tech, biotech and medical devices. Paris, and France in general, has thousands of outstanding engineers that graduate each year. Researchers are more and more willing to found companies to have a true impact on our society. I do believe that the ecosystem is more and more structured to help them to build such companies.

How should investors in other cities think about the overall investment climate and opportunities in your city? Paris is booming for sure. It’s still behind London and Berlin probably. But we are seeing more and more European VC offices opening in the city to get direct access to our ecosystem. Even in seed rounds, we start to have European VCs competing against us. It’s good — that means that our startups are moving to the next level.

Do you expect to see a surge in more founders coming from geographies outside major cities in the years to come, with startup hubs losing people due to the pandemic and lingering concerns, plus the attraction of remote work? For sure startups will more and more push for remote organizations. It’s an amazing way to combine quality of life for employees and attracting talent. Yet I don’t think it will be the majority. Not all founders are willing/able to build a fully remote company. It’s an important cultural choice and it’s adapted to a certain type of business. I believe in more flexible organization (e.g., tech team working remotely or 1-2 days a week for any employee).

Which industry segments that you invest in look weaker or more exposed to potential shifts in consumer and business behavior because of COVID-19? What are the opportunities startups may be able to tap into during these unprecedented times? Travel and hospitality sectors are of course hugely impacted. Yet there are opportunities for helping those incumbents to face current challenges (e.g., better customer care and services, stronger flexibility, cost reduction and process automation).

How has COVID-19 impacted your investment strategy? What are the biggest worries of the founders in your portfolio? What is your advice to startups in your portfolio right now? Cash is king more than ever before. My only piece of advice will be to keep a good level of cash as we have a limited view on events coming ahead. It’s easy to say but much more difficult to put in practice (e.g., to what extend should I reduce my cash burn? Should I keep on investing in the product? What is the impact on the sales team?). Startups should focus only on what is mission-critical for their clients. Yet it doesn’t impact our seed investments as we invest pre-revenue and often pre-product.

What is a moment that has given you hope in the last month or so? This can be professional, personal or a mix of the two. There is no reason to be hopeless. Crises have happened in the past. Humanity has faced other pandemics. Humans are resilient and resourceful enough to adapt to a new environment and new constraints.

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