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French national industry - L'Oréal

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

French cemetery - Le père Lachaise

 

Père Lachaise Cemetery  is the largest cemetery of Paris. It’s regarded ad the the most visited cemetery in the world.

Today, over 300,000 bodies are burried there.

 

Père François de la Chaise, from whom the cemery takes its name, was confessor (as an Jesuit priest) to Louis XIV (the 14th) . He was born in 1624 and died in 1709.

The land was bought by the city in 1804 in order to create a new cemetery outside of the city in order to protect the population against the heath hazards caused by burias.

At the time, it attracted only a few funerals as it was far away and unknown. So the administrators organised the transfer of the remains of Molière and La Fontaine, both of them were already really famous ad poets.

After that, a lot of people wanted to be burried there.

Several famous people are burried there.  As examples we have Jacques-Louis David who is a really famous painter of the 18th century and Guillaume Apollinaire is well known as well. He was a famous poet. Some rock stars were also buried there as Morrisson.

 

French Statue - "La France Renaissance" - "The rebirth of France"

 

This statue was built by Holger Wederkinch,  a Danish sculptor in 1930. It was a gift from the Danish community to the city of Paris. It was originally meant to represent Joan of Arc (Jeanne d’Arc) but the city council of Paris decided the idea behind Joan of Arc was too “war-like”.

It is situated on l’île des Cignes (the island of Swans), in the middle of the Seine. Its green color indicates it is made of copper.

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French religious monument - Notre-Dame de Paris

 

The most important information

 A very famous novel Notre-Dame de Paris was written in 1831 by Victor Hugo, a famous French author. The cathedral is a place where the principal events of the story take place.

 
 

Architecture:

Notre-Dame de Paris is a Gothic cathedral. There is the cathedral but also a small parc, two towers and portals. The most famous things of the exterior architecture of the cathedral are the gargoyles. They date back to the middle Ages.

Age/ Date of creation:

The first stone of Notre-Dame de Paris was layed in 1163 and the construction has lasted around two centuries.

Interior

The cathedral is composed of a nave, a chancel, a transept.

 There are three organs in the cathedral: the big organ, which was built in 1401 and is the most important in France and probably the most famous in the world; the heart organ and the positiv organ.

 

The three rose windows of the cathedral are masterpieces.

The most important is the south rose window which was built in 1260. It has a diameter of 12 meters 90 and is 19 meters long.

The cathedral has stained glasses which are very famous.

There is a series of 76 pictures which pay tribute to Mary, the mother of Jesus.

There are seven chapels in the south of the cathedral and seven chapels in the north 

The cathedral is composed of a nave, a chancel, a transept.

There are three organs in the cathedral: the big organ, which was built in 1401 and is the most important in France and probably the most famous in the world; the heart organ and the positiv organ.

The three rose windows of the cathedral are masterpieces.

The most important is the south rose window which was built in 1260. It has a diameter of 12 meters 90 and is 19 meters long.

The cathedral has stained glasses which are very famous.

 There is a series of 76 pictures which pay tribute to Mary, the mother of Jesus

 There are seven chapels in the south of the cathedral and seven chapels in the north

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Czech statue - Saint Wenceslas Statue

 
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Czech Castles - Lednice

 

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Polish song - ‘Whisky’ by ‘Dzem’

PL PRESENTATION/ CATEGORY 9

Cathegory 9 Song in national language

‘Whisky’ by ‘Dzem’

By Anna.Cz & Justyna.Ł

 

 

We want to teach you sth. about unforgetable and forever live band

‘Dzem’.

 

The band’s name comes from English word ‘Jam’ which is pronounced like

Polish word meaning ‘fruit preserves’.

 

Ryszard Henryk Riedel born September 7, 1956 in Chorzów was the original lead

singer of blues-rock band ‘Dzem’ (Jam). Riedel finished his education after

the 7th grade of primary school. He has never attended to any singing

course. He was a self-taught.

 

In December 1973 he joined ‘Dzem’. His lyrics contained many autobiographical

elements.

 

In subsequent years he became a heavy drug addict which led to many

arguments within the band. He led a life of an outsider, ignored rehearsals

and even his own concerts.

 

‘In life only the moments are beautiful’

 

 -What do you think of when you hear Dzem’s song ‘Whisky’? 

 

-  think of Billy, Billy the drunkard. He puts an end to drinking right?

-  Yes

– Right so let’s call it a happy end to one’s relationship with

alcohol

–Thank you very much.

 

- And you..?

- Me? I think of freedom, motorcycles, riding idifferently

somewhere through the world. Independence, which I don’t have at this

moment (pointing at children) and my youth, although we didn’t have

whisky back then, only beer

- Thank you very much.

 

–‘Whisky, my wife’?..it’s a brilliant song about life, about

everything actually. It’s a good story to listen to while driving a car

and of course to sing along

 

Now our favourite song

 

‘Whisky-my wife’

 

It’s said in a city, what kind of guy is he.

He’still drunk.

He propably doesn’t know what the shem is.

Dirty, sloppy in astable he still sleeps.

What is he looking for in our city?

Go to hell-it’said by people full of singts,

people full of singts.

Once I wanted to be smarter and to be on their side,

sleep in clean bedding, and fresh milk drink.

I really wanted to be smarter and to be on their side.

Well I tought about wife,

to become one of them, to become one of them.

I have already kept my eyes on ranch, it was wonderful.

But anyone of beautiful ladies didn’t want to move in.

Everyone were laughing at me and calling out,

still calling me out ‘beautiful taily-coat you’ve got Billy’.

But you would be lame,you would be lame husband.