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Situated in the Paris suburb of Saint-Mandé
the building is just a stone’s throw from the Bois de Vincennes – the French capital’s largest public park – and stands out with three ochre glass-and-metal wings that extend onto a stone plaza and feature rooftop terraces
In addition to implementing new spaces for creativity
the team behind the move took up the challenge of designing an eco-friendly environment
Let’s take a tour of some of the initiatives and features that ensure Floresco lives up to its name
explains that the Floresco project launched back in 2018
with workshops involving team members who work at Ubisoft’s HQ
especially in terms of the building’s ecological impact
and the creation of a vegetable garden were top requests from team members,” she said
A cafeteria – something that the previous headquarters didn’t have – was soon brought up for discussion
“The main criteria when choosing our service provider were the quality and origins of the products
as we wanted to make sure that at least 80% of the food was local,” Simonian explained
“Considering that over 50% of the team members who answered our survey are flexitarian
it was important to cater to a variety of diets.”
Simonian’s team also decided to rethink how green the interior spaces would be
“The idea was to limit the use of plastic plant pots
most of the interior plants will simply grow freely alongside our teams!”
Since maintaining an office building involves processing a large amount of waste
Workplace & Experience Operations director Laurie Pigeot-Besse points out that a new building was an opportunity to set up a revamped recycling system for paper
team members can now sort their waste easily
and our partner in charge of collecting waste allows us to track how it is treated and processed.” Even the bins are made of 40% recycled PET plastic
Pigeot-Besse indicates that “whether it is for material or consumable goods
all bids for suppliers related to Floresco now explicitly include environmental requirements
we are particularly attentive to the products that are used.”
The Floresco team also thought of ways to reduce waste by choosing partners that offer take-away lunches in reusable containers that team members can bring back
“This has the double advantage of reducing the use of single-use dishware as much as possible
as well as limiting the need for deliveries,” Pigeot-Bisset adds
Real Estate Manager of Operations Jean-Baptiste Lacheteau shares how Floresco actively works to reduce electricity consumption: “The glass facades
maximize the use of natural light and limit the need for artificial lighting
controlled by a single program and a probe that adjusts the lighting in real time
and allows us to program schedules throughout the year
all lights are turned off from 10PM to 7AM.”
Floresco does not rely on ventilation heating
but on a more environmentally friendly solution: radiant heating
giving back the energy to the building during the day
with a much lower energy consumption,” Lacheteau adds
While the Floresco building is currently open
not all services are available and Ubisoft’s HR recommend that team members in France continue to work remotely as much as possible to guarantee their safety
“The whole team behind the Floresco project is eager for Ubisoft team members to discover their new office once the situation improves and all amenities can safely open,” Simonian says
For more news from inside Ubisoft, including its ongoing environmental commitments, check out our previous coverage
A French version of this article was originally featured on Ubisoft Stories.
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Through its doors have passed many families of storm-tossed Jews fleeing the conflicts that redrew the map of Europe over that time span
was my spiritual home for most of my life — at least until I moved into Paris proper and joined the Adath Israel congregation
the cities of Vincennes and Saint-Mandé are thriving
and it is estimated that up to 30 percent of their population is Jewish
Vincennes is an upper-middle-class community offering a magnificent park (whose lake attracts up to 1,000 people
and a secure refuge for the many Jews leaving the eastern Paris suburbs in search of safer ground
The Synagogue de Vincennes belongs to the hundred or so shuls affiliated with the Consistoire de Paris — that is
of which I was privileged to serve as director of public relations and fundraising back in the 1990s
There are many reasons why this shul is special to me: This is where I first started davening and learning
and where my two kids later went to Talmud Torah
this is one of the last congregations faithful to the nusach of the Rhine Valley
Many members have family roots in the Alsace region or in the German areas of Saar or Baden-Wurttemberg; others have roots in the Frankfurt area
in the course of uniting Germany under their rule
they decided to annex the French regions of Alsace and Lorraine
Those provinces were only returned to France following the 1918 armistice in World War I
but were later reclaimed by the Nazis from 1939 to 1945
The first annexation resulted in many Jewish families fleeing to Paris and other cities in France
to avoid becoming citizens of the German Empire
there were enough Jews in Vincennes originating from Strasbourg
and smaller kehillos in eastern France that the Consistoire decided to build a synagogue dedicated to their needs
who also financed five other landmark synagogues around the world
the community grew because German and Austrian Jews settled in Vincennes
soon joined by families fleeing the conflagration and its aftermath in Eastern Europe
also known as “the Bloch,” or the Seder Hatefilot siddur ( known as “the Durlacher”) printed in 1852
That began to change as the kehillah became more diverse
when Jews from North Africa immigrated to mainland France in the ’50s and ’60s
but many families from Alsace and Lorraine remain and continue to pass on many treasures from one generation to the next
such as a 1753 machzor printed in Metz that I have been lucky enough to use on Yom Kippur
The uniqueness of the Synagogue de Vincennes is that it has succeeded in blending people from very different backgrounds into one vibrant community
many regulars chose to join the Ashkenazi shul
The result was a kind of kehillah that could only have come together in 20th-century France
The atmosphere at the Vincennes shul was a unique combination of the punctuality and attention to detail typical of a German-style congregation and the more joyful attitude of our fellow Jews from North Africa
the Sephardi congregation used to walk with their sifrei Torah from their shul into ours during one hakafah
and the difference between our restraint and their exuberance was evident
We had different attitudes on several topics
We did not take halachic advice from the same poskim
But it needs to be said that without the influx of newcomers from the Sephardi community
attendance in our shul probably have sunk to a level that would have made it difficult to keep it going
the Consistoire even contemplated the possibility of selling the building to a real estate developer
The extraordinary cohesion of our community was achieved mainly through the efforts of one man: Rav Isaac Kapetas
starting in 1971; he is now the rabbi emeritus
he learned at Yeshivat She’arit Yosef in Be’er Yaakov
and graduated from the Rabbinical Seminary in Paris
He served as rabbi of both the Sephardic and Ashkenazi communities
and used to alternately attend both minyanim
so that one could not say he paid more attention to one part of the kehillah than to the other
Together with past presidents of the congregation such as Manfred Goldschmidt and Ernest Glauberg aleihem hashalom
Rav Kapetas succeeded in significantly raising the level of religious observance in our shul and making Torah learning attractive to what once was a much more assimilated community
Another of Rav Kapetas’s great achievements is the Ohel Baruch school
established in 1975 with only a handful of kids learning in a single room in the synagogue building
right at the time the Jewish community in France
under the guidance of Chief Rabbi Joseph Haïm Sitruk ztz”l
was beginning to move closer to Torah and mitzvos and away from being “a Jew at home and a French citizen outside.” In 1984
Rav Kapetas moved the school to its own spacious building
and their parents were closer to religious observance
The presence of a Jewish school was instrumental in attracting more families to the city
I also remember we had a very good relationship with Lubavitch: David Balouka
ran a Talmud Torah and catered to the needs of families with very different levels of observance
We also managed to strike a balance between the German majority and those who came from a Polish background: Every second year
we would follow nusach Polin on Rosh Hashanah
hiring a baal tefillah from Strasbourg for the occasion
Benyamin Dahan — whose family was from Morocco but who had totally mastered our specific nusach — led the congregation with a soft but powerful voice that made a strong imprint on me and sparked my interest in cantorial singing
Thanks to the efforts of all those mentioned above
Vincennes has become one of the most attractive Jewish communities in the Paris area
when anti-Semitism became a real concern to those Jews living in the suburbs
Vincennes and Saint-Mandé emerged as safe havens for many
It remained a quiet neighborhood until the tragic January 2015 ISIS terrorist attack against the Hypercacher supermarket that killed four Jews
This happened only a few hundred yards away from the synagogue in Vincennes
where some of the victims used to occasionally daven
thanks to the work that Rav Kapetas began with the help of the askanim some 25 years back
the kehillah is on very good terms with the elected officials of this politically conservative stronghold
I am thankful to the members of this kehillah
who helped me strengthen my observance and Torah-learning while I continued my career as an academic
And I am proud to have been part of the dedicated nucleus of people who have tried to keep the Rhine Valley tradition alive
in memory of the more than 800 Jews who were deported from the city
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MARS Architectes creates an “Alice in Wonderland” moment with an elegant new apartment building concealed behind an older one
By: Florian Heilmeyer
Photography: Charly Broyez
In the 12th arrondissement of Paris—barely 350 feet from the Place de la Nation—a narrow wooden apartment building with 14 apartments and a total of 7,700 square feet has been placed in the green backyard of an eleven-story apartment block from the 70s. Behind this small project is a long history that began a decade ago, when French real estate Gecina commissioned MARS Architectes
to review all of its Parisian properties looking for re-densification opportunities
The first such plot to be developed was here
behind a half-century old apartment complex on the Avenue de Saint Mandé
The site is blocked on all sides by apartment buildings so tall that no crane could be used
this limited the materials the team could use to build
All materials and tools would have to be brought to the site through an 11.5-7.5-foot-wide hole cut into the ceiling of an underground parking garage beneath larger building
This set of constraints helped the team land on a timber building
lightweight wooden could be maneuvered through the “rabbit hole” and assembled onsite
The new building stands at a right angle behind the front building
turning away from the old block and towards the small but green landscape of the yard
as the eleven-story giant blocks virtually all noise from the avenue
The path now leads through the entrance of the building block—another rabbit hole in this story—
through another passage in the new building
a white open staircase and even some white marble hardscaping
While the green courtyard belongs to all residents of the two buildings
the white one is kept to the residents of the smaller new one as an intimate social meeting space
The open access balconies that lead to each single apartment address this need for social space
One imagines that this could easily become a lively little community
To provide for a good mixture of different residents
there are six micro apartments with one or two rooms
sliding doors between the main rooms allow for a circumferential circulation that makes them more flexible in use
and feeling more spacious than they actually are
Four maisonettes are placed across the second and third floors
The main intention of MARS was to turn the backyard—shaded by the surrounding buildings—into a place of poetry and surprise
an Alice-in-Wonderland moment: the collective explains
“The courtyard unveils a garden evoking an undergrowth full of ferns
and resinous trees.” The wooden facade that turns to this garden is kept simple
but with prominent elements like the columns and the sliding panels that give it a structure and a rhythm— “simple and strong
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Although you can hire boats to navigate two of the other lakes in the Bois de Vincennes - Lac des Minimes and Lac Daumesnil - you can't do so on Lac de Saint-Mandé
the paths around the lake are accessible to baby carriages and bicycles: for a stroll with family or friends
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FRANCE — The management of patients over the age of 75 years with diabetes is discussed in a crucial chapter in the latest position statement from the Francophone Diabetes Society (SFD)
The chapter reviews screening for geriatric complications
and new cardio- and nephroprotective treatments
an endocrinologist and metabolic diseases specialist at Bégin Military Teaching Hospital in Saint-Mandé
discussed these topics at the Francophone Diabetes Society Congress
The SFD has updated its position statement on type 2 diabetes every 2 years since 2017
A chapter is dedicated to patients over the age of 75 years
who represent a quarter of the population with type 2 diabetes
20% of the 700,000 residents have diabetes
"The cumulative complications related to type 2 diabetes and age can weaken the patient
influencing therapeutic decisions," said Bordier
and patient categorization based on geriatric complications needs regular reassessment."
hypoglycemia can affect the patient's quality of life and long-term prognosis
On the basis of the evaluation of geriatric complications and frailty
three categories of elderly patients can be determined
there are healthy elderly patients who are socially well integrated and autonomous in their decisions and daily activities
who present an intermediate health status and are at risk of moving to the third category
The latter includes dependent patients or those with severely impaired health
who are characterized by advanced and chronic polypathology
which generates disability and may be accompanied by social isolation
Based on the health categories of the elderly (healthy
the SFD distinguishes three glycemic target levels
Gerontological evaluation will avoid being too strict in very frail patients and avoid excessive lenience in those who have aged well and who could develop long-term diabetic complications
In a study conducted in Ontario, Canada, among 108,620 elderly patients diagnosed with diabetes (average age, 80.6 years, 61% with A1c < 7%)
the results highlight the need to reevaluate glycemic targets in the elderly and reconsider the use of antihyperglycemic medications that can cause hypoglycemia
especially in the context of intensive glycemic control
21.6% of the patients had an A1c < 7% and were on high-risk hypoglycemic treatment
Their risk for events was twice as high compared with those with A1c between 7.1% and 8.5% who were treated with low-risk hypoglycemic drugs
the targets in terms of A1c vary according to the three categories of elderly patients
the target is a value less than or equal to 7%
while staying above 7% if they use hypoglycemic risk treatments such as insulin secretagogues (like sulfonylureas or glinides) or insulin
For dependent patients and those with "very impaired health" who aim to avoid acute complications (such as dehydration and hyperosmolar coma)
with preprandial capillary blood glucose between 1 and 2 g/L (or better > 1.40 g/L)
including at least three daily insulin injections
patients with type 2 diabetes under a single basal insulin injection also became eligible for continuous glucose monitoring if their A1c level was above 8%
a time spent above the target range less than 50% between 180 and 250 mg/dL
The time spent below the target range should be less than 1% for a blood glucose < 70 mg/dL
therapies are like those in younger people
these options must be adjusted according to patients' clinical presentation
Each drug class has specific advantages and disadvantages and side effects that may be more pronounced in elderly patients
Vigilance is particularly required regarding the risk for hypoglycemia
especially with sulfonylureas and glinides
this drug class should be avoided in seniors
Moreover, some treatments induce weight loss, which can lead to malnutrition and sarcopenia, thus weakening the patient. Even in the presence of obesity
GLP-1 RAs offer proven cardiac protection and
Their use can lead to digestive disorders and weight loss
They are recommended even if A1c goals are met
great caution is needed when using them in malnourished patients
Detemir is appropriate when the patient's glycemic profile points to the prescription of a shorter-action insulin injection in the morning (as with patients with predominant daytime hyperglycemia or corticosteroid therapy)
Therapeutic strategy in the elderly begins with dietary adjustments that favor a balanced diet while avoiding restrictive diets. Practicing adapted physical activity is essential, even in elderly patients. Finally, all the usual cardiovascular risk factors associated with type 2 diabetes must be controlled
The therapeutic strategy differs according to the patient's health status
staying vigilant about the risks for hypoglycemia and malnutrition in case of high-risk treatments
then one can consider combining it with a sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 (SGLT-2) inhibitor
or possibly a dipeptidyl peptidase 4 (DPP-4) inhibitor or hypoglycemic sulfonylurea (although this last option is not favored by the SFD)
If the patient has confirmed atherosclerotic disease, heart failure, or chronic kidney disease
then new therapeutic classes are preferred because they have specifically demonstrated benefits
initial combination therapy is proposed to the patient
either by metformin/SGLT2 inhibitor or metformin/GLP1 RA
In the case of heart failure or chronic kidney disease
initial combination therapy is recommended
including metformin and an SGLT2 inhibitor
but only if the patient has not reached his or her A1c goal
combining treatments should be considered if the patient does not reach the A1c goal
If the patient is frail, then the therapeutic strategy starts with metformin, followed by a DPP-4 inhibitor. These well-tolerated molecules do not cause hypoglycemia. Prescribing a GLP-1 RA (which can induce anorexia or precipitate malnutrition in a high-risk patient) in frail patients requires particular vigilance
In the presence of chronic kidney disease or heart failure
adding an SGLT2 inhibitor can provide rapid benefits
basal insulin therapy can be instituted as a last resort
the therapeutic strategy starts with metformin
and then can be supplemented with a DPP-4 inhibitor if necessary
combining with an SGLT2 inhibitor can be beneficial
If these measures do not allow for achieving glycemic targets
then progressive basal insulin therapy is necessary
Bordier declared that she had provided various services to AstraZeneca
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Michèle and her parents had worked with the Bourgogne network, one of many secret networks of ordinary citizens who wanted to participate non-violently in the Resistance. These networks, the best known of which was the Comète line, returned over three thousand Allied aviators to safety—across the English Channel or over the Pyrenees. Ominous posters throughout Paris warned citizens against helping stranded airmen—men would be shot, women sent to concentration camps.
I had begun my novel with little more than the title, “The Girl in the Blue Beret,” and the notion that a retired airline captain decides to return to France to find the people who had helped him during the war after his bomber crash-landed. I didn’t know what he would find when he got to France, but I knew that he would be searching for the girl in the blue beret. I especially wanted to find a Frenchman who could inspire a character. I made plans to travel to France.
Finally, I received a letter from Michèle Moët-Agniel. Although she had done few interviews, she agreed to meet me because of the link to my father-in-law. I knew that she and her parents had been arrested and deported in 1944 for helping aviators. She and her mother were sent to Ravensbruck, and her father had died at Buchenwald. I could not match these facts in my mind with the vivacious woman who greeted me so warmly.
She was a widow. Her small apartment near the Bois de Vincennes was filled with massive old furniture. The armoire could have hidden a stray airman. (Actually, many airmen were hidden in armoires during the war.) Michèle wore a bright red skirt, a black sweater, and pearls. She had white curls, intense hazel eyes, and a fluttery, enthusiastic manner. She served me coffee, fruit, chocolate, and pâtisseries.
Her English was much better than my wobbly French, but we consulted her well-thumbed dictionary. She had always intended to write her memoirs, she said. But she had procrastinated. Sighing, she said, “It is too difficile.”
Since the nineteen-eighties she has been active with other former political prisoners in documenting the deportations, and she (a former teacher) takes her scrapbooks about the war years to the schools to show children what life was like then.
As she showed me one of these scrapbooks—full of ration books, letters, news clippings, photos, and a secret notebook in which fifty aviators had written their names and addresses—she seemed flustered and clumsy, scattering the photos and papers.
A photo fell to the floor. Picking it up, she said, “This is Jean Carbonnet. I went with him on the train to guide pilots. Sometimes we went to Noyon or Chauny. Once we went to Lizio, a petite village, where nineteen pilots were hidden. We escorted seven of them to Paris in one journey.”
Michèle described how the handsome young man in the snapshot was arrested with her family, how he survived (barely) Buchenwald, how he was forever changed by the war (“his head turn-ed”). Although he had died years before, he struck my imagination and I thought I had found my Frenchman.
In the scrapbook was a stenciled number cut from the clothing Michèle had been forced to wear as a prisoner. She had no tattoo. As she began to tell of the arrest and deportation, her English lapsed and her French sped up. I was having difficulty following.
In February, 1945, as the Russians closed in, the Germans sent the ambulatory prisoners on a death march back to Ravensbruck, but Michèle hid in the infirmary with her mother, who was too sick to walk.
The runway, the heavy wagons, the sod, the cold.
I tried to piece together what she was saying. The Germans set fire to the camp and fled. The Germans left; the Red Army came.
I decided not to probe further that day. Her son, Francis, drove me around Paris and showed me the various locales that figured in his mother’s story—the Jardin des Plantes, Gare d’Austerlitz, the Colonnade on the rue de Rivoli where the Photomaton was located, and the site of the infamous Gestapo headquarters on the rue des Saussaies.
The camp at Koenigsberg was not extensively documented because there were so few survivors, but I managed to gather some more details about it and Michèle told me more a few days later.
After being rescued by the Russians—almost a year after their arrest—and spending four months in a hospital in Poland, Michèle and her mother arrived at Hotel Lutetia, the welcome center in Paris for returning deportees. Anxiously they searched the bulletin boards for word of Michèle’s father. A cheerful aide said, “Oh, we do have a Monsieur Moët. Wait here.” The aide returned with a long face of apology. “It wasn’t Monsieur Moët. It was Monsieur Chandon.”
I had never heard such a cruel twist of fate, like a mean joke.
I don’t know why she trusted me to transform her story into fiction, but it was clear that she wanted it told. What could I possibly write that would do justice to this painful past? It is never easy to write about actual people, but her resilience, her high spirits, inspired my character, Annette.
I visited Michèle several times, each time filling out more of my picture of wartime Paris and her difficult history, and we became friends. I became aware of the fun she had before the arrest—an exuberant girl ready to take risks, willing to use her schoolgirl advantage to fool the Germans, and infatuated with the “big American boys.”
Eventually, “The Girl in the Blue Beret” appeared in print, and Michèle read it avidly, quickly. I was concerned that her family might think the teen-age romance in the novel was true—an embarrassment to her. “I didn’t like that part,” she admitted. But she forgave my liberties, granting that fiction goes in a different direction from a documentary.
When I did a reading at Shakespeare and Company, she was there, and the audience loved her—a real live member of the Resistance. Seeing the impish smile on her face, I imagined again the schoolgirl with a book satchel, strolling through the Bois de Vincennes with several awkward, gawky Americans in ill-fitting French garb following at a distance, trying to keep that blue beret in sight.
The mayor of Saint Mandé, dashing in his official, ceremonial, red-white-and-blue sash, addressed the crowd, which included two women who, like Michèle, had escorted airmen.
Michèle’s eight-year-old grand-nephew, from a ladder, pulled the string that dropped the bunting and revealed the plaque. Then he read the words aloud.
Après avoir accueilli ici de nombreux aviateurs alliés en 1943 et 1944, la famille Moët à été arrêtée par la milice et remise à la Gestapo le 28 avril 1944, puis déportée. Gèrard Moët est mort à Buchenwald le 6 Mars 1945.La ville de Saint Mandé en hommage à leur courage et à leur sacrifice. Le 28 avril 2013
(After having sheltered here numerous Allied aviators in 1943 and 1944, the Moët family was arrested by the Milice and taken to the Gestapo April 28, 1944, then deported. Gerard Moët died at Buchenwald March 6, 1945. The town of Saint Mandé in homage to their courage and to their sacrifice. April 28, 2013)
Michèle read a lengthy, carefully prepared text, telling her story movingly, insisting on an explicit, factual accounting of what had happened. Many in her family had not known the whole story before. She told it without faltering until she came to the part where she and her mother returned to France after the end of the war. Her voice broke, and then she wept when she told of finding her little brother again. When they were arrested, he had been left behind on the sidewalk with his teddy bear.
The honor of the plaque was not for her, she stressed, but for her father, who loved France enough to die for it.
Michèle had written her own story at last. She ended by quoting Primo Levi,
N’oubliez pas que cela fut, non ne l’oubliez pas.
(Never forget that this has happened, do not forget it.)
Bobbie Ann Mason is the author of “Shiloh and Other Stories,” “In Country,” and “The Girl in the Blue Beret.”
consul general for France in San Francisco
the European Union and the United States" Tuesday
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he graduated from the University Centre of Policy Studies
Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris and is an alumnus of the École Nationale d’Administration
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Paris Saint-Germain is delighted to reveal the list of 34 clubs from the Île-de-France region selected for the fifth Club Tour SNIPES
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The Club Tour SNIPES offers hundreds of young female and male players an unforgettable experience
> Exclusive training sessions – 14-25 AprilTen clubs will take part in exclusive training sessions led by Paris Saint-Germain’s coaching teams
with around 1,200 talented young players receiving top-level support
> The Club Tour SNIPES Cup – Sunday 27 AprilThis superb tournament will bring 24 clubs together at the Campus Paris Saint-Germain
Nearly 600 young female and male players will battle it out at an enjoyable and friendly event that also features fun activities and opportunities to share experiences
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clubs in the Île-de-France region are invited to step out on the pitch at the Parc des Princes at half-time at PSG’s home matches in Ligue 1
> Clubs taking part in the Club Tour SNIPES training sessions:Val Yerres Crosne AF
Argenteuil FC.> Clubs taking part in the Club Tour SNIPES Cup:Académie Football Paris 18
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The Club Tour SNIPES is a programme that fully embodies Paris Saint-Germain’s commitment to training and supporting young people
with the aid of Île-de-France’s amateur clubs
the Club Tour SNIPES has established close ties with local clubs and gives Paris Saint-Germain the opportunity to promote the basic principles of sport
which are central to the development of young athletes
Paris Saint-Germain will be inviting the representatives of the 34 clubs selected to take part in the training sessions and the Cup to attend the official Club Tour SNIPES 2025 launch at the Parc des Princes on Monday 24 March
a superb event where the various stages of this latest edition will be revealed
“The Club Tour SNIPES is a perfect illustration of our commitment to amateur football and our desire to inspire the new generation of female and male players in Île-de-France by sharing the core values of sport
This initiative will allow us to do just that and provides a unique opportunity for young people to progress and flourish
It is also a wonderful chance for Paris Saint-Germain to strengthen its ties with local clubs and showcase the amazing work being carried out on the pitch to help take local football forward.” Victoriano Melero
Paris Saint-Germain is proud to continue supporting young people and amateur football
See you in April for the latest Club Tour SNIPES
an initiative that is all about passion and sharing
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Olga Preobrajenska (born January 21 [February 2, New Style], 1871, St. Petersburg
France) was a Russian prima ballerina who was known for her lyrical dancing style and who also became known as an influential teacher
earning the title of prima ballerina in 1900
who would go on to become an influential ballet teacher as well
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