I Love Touring Paris - the Sixteenth Arrondissement
Passy is in the northern part of the district. It was once a village and served as home away from home to Benjamin Franklin for many years. Here in 1782 he printed a pamphlet "A Project for Perpetual Peace" which presented his vision for a permanent peace in Europe. Despite his inability to predict the future, Parisians have honored him with a rue Franklin. You may want to visit the Cimetiere de Passy (Passy Cemetery) burial grounds for the painter Edouard Manet and the composer Claude Debussy. It is the only cemetery in Paris whose waiting-room is heated. Perhaps that's why it was once "the place" in Paris to be buried. If you go make sure to see the retaining wall memorial to soldiers who fell in World War I. Another Passy site of interest is the house where the famous writer Honore de Balzac lived and wrote.
The Parc des Princes (Princes' Park) is a football stadium with just a bit less than fifty thousand seats. It was France's national stadium until the much bigger Stade de France was built in the working class suburb of St-Denis. The stadium was designed in 1972 by Roger Taillibert who also designed the Montreal Olympic Stadium for the 1976 Olympics. The Parc des Princes area was a hunting preserve for the royal family name during the Eighteenth Century. Alas the neighborhood went to pot. There is something about this site that attracts stadiums (stadia for purists); the first one went up in 1897 and the second in 1932. Until 1967 the Parc marked the end of the Tour de France bicycle race, the most famous such race in the world. There are plans afoot to increase the seating capacity to a whopping one hundred fourteen thousand.
Lycee Janson de Sailly is generally considered as one of the best lycees (roughly high schools) in France. It is the biggest such institution in France with 3200 students whose age ranges from 11 to 20. The founder, a Parisian lawyer named Monsieur Janson de Sailly disinherited his wife after discovering that she had a lover. He left his entire fortune to the State. This chauvinist insisted that the monies be used to establish an excellent high school for boys only, but eventually girls were accepted. The lycee was built in the 1880s as the first Republican lycee in France. However, it subsequently attracted many students from Parisian high society.
Janson's motto was Pour la Patrie, par le livre et par l'epee (For the Homeland, by the book and by the sword). Many of its students pursued a military career, often in the colonies. In 1944 hundreds joined the French Free Forces, fought German divisions in Alsace, and entered Germany with Patton's forces in 1945. Janson's students often end up at France's most prestigious post-secondary institutions, the equivalent of Ivy League schools.
The Musee Guimet (Guimet Museum) is home to one of the largest collections of Asian art outside Asia. It also has a magnificent collection of pieces from Ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome. The Musee de la Contrefacon (Counterfeiting Museum) was established in 1951 by the Union des Fabricants, an organization of manufacturers. It currently exhibits several hundred items, pairing each original piece with its counterfeit. The Musee Marmottan-Monet features a collection of a hundred Impressionist works by Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
The Trocadero lies across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower. The French won the Battle of Trocadero in 1823 protecting the autocratic Spanish King Ferdinand VII. Forty some years later they honored this victory by renaming the square called Place du Roi de Rome (i.e., Place of the King of Rome). The following year, the Palais de Trocadero (Trocadero Palace) was built on the site as the centerpiece of a world's fair celebrating France's recovery from its defeat in the Franco-Prussian war, The Palace was built like a concert hall in mixed Moorish and Byzantine style with a large aquarium occupying the lower level. For the Exposition Internationale (World's Fair) of 1937 the old Palais du Trocadero was demolished; replaced by the modernist Palais de Chaillot. The complex includes several museums: the Musee national de la Marine (Naval Museum), the ethnological Musee de l'Homme (Museum of Man), and the Musee national des Monuments francais (National Museum of French Monuments) as well as the Theatre national de Chaillot (Chaillot National Theater). At the Palais de Chaillot the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. The esplanade was renamed the esplanade des droits de l'homme (esplanade of human rights). And since then human rights...
Of course you don't want to visit Paris without sampling fine French wine and food. In my article I Love French Wine and Food - A Province Bandol I reviewed such a wine and suggested a sample menu: Start with Caviar d'Aubergines (Egglant Puree). For your second course savor Poisson aux Herbes de Provence (Fish with Provence Herbs). And as dessert indulge yourself with Tarte aux Noix (Walnut and Honey Tart). Your Parisian sommelier (wine steward) will be happy to suggest appropriate wines to accompany each course.
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