On a day like today but in 1850, General Don José de San Martín died in Boulogne-sur-Mer
we remember the passage to immortality of the Father of the Nation
a central figure in the history of Latin America and one of the great architects of South American independence
The commemoration of this date not only honors his death but also celebrates his transcendence
his legacy and his lasting impact on the region
His figure has been immortalized in the collective memory of Argentina and the continent
but also for the values he embodied: freedom
August 17 was instituted as a national holiday in Argentina to pay homage to General San Martin and to recognize his role in the emancipation of Argentina
San Martin's legacy goes beyond his military exploits
His vision of a free and united Latin America remains an ideal for many nations
He promoted the idea that freedom was not only an inalienable right
“You will be what you must be or you will be nothing” - San Martín
This was one of his most remembered thoughts that evidenced his commitment to duty and honor
He is also known for his firm opposition to any form of tyranny and his defense of the republican system
the Battle of Maipu (1818) and the liberation of Peru (1821)
After his retirement from political and military life
where he kept away from the internal disputes that plagued the newly independent nations
his figure remained a symbol of integrity and sacrifice for the common good
His legacy of values and principles continue to be a guide for present and future generations. Since 1850 his remains are guarded by the Grenadiers in the Mausoleum of General San Martin
located on the right side of the Metropolitan Cathedral
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‘In the last corner of the Earth where I am I will be ready to fight for freedom’
José Francisco de San Martín y Matorras was born
who would eventually become one of the key figures of South American independence
based on the struggle for freedom and justice
is still alive and well in the history of Argentina and the entire region
The son of Juan de San Martín and Gregoria Matorras
José was the youngest of five siblings
his life was marked by military discipline
and from then on he began his outstanding performance in the military
including the famous victory of Bailén against Napoleon's troops
This earned him the promotion to lieutenant colonel and the gold medal
consolidating his prestige in the Spanish army
San Martín made a decision that would change the course of his life and the destiny of America: he requested and obtained his retirement from the Spanish army and travelled to London with the purpose of joining the independence movements of the continent
where he took a leading role in the emancipation struggle
He founded the Regiment of Grenadiers on Horseback and
won his first victory on American soil in the Battle of San Lorenzo
His strategic genius led him to plan and execute one of the most memorable feats in military history: the Crossing of the Andes
he crossed the imposing mountain range and achieved independence from Chile after the victory at the Battle of Chacabuco
where in 1821 he proclaimed independence and took over the government as Protector of Peru
after a meeting with Simón Bolívar in Guayaquil
he decided to leave the field of his glory with an exemplary renunciation
in order to preserve unity and avoid conflict
and in 1824 he went into exile in Europe with his daughter Mercedes
San Martín died on 17 August 1850 in Boulogne-sur-Mer
His remains were repatriated in 1880 and rest in the Mausoleum of the Buenos Aires Cathedral
but also a visionary leader who promoted values such as freedom
Argentina commemorates the passing to immortality of the ‘Father of the Nation’
remembering his life and his unwavering commitment to the independence of America
In the Casa Rosada there are some objects that recall his history and his struggle: the bust in the Presidential Hall
the tapestry in the Escalera Francia and a portrait in the anteroom of the Presidential Office
These symbols keep his memory and his example alive for future generations
San Martin left an indelible teaching: freedom is a right and a duty
His phrase ‘You will be what you must be or you will be nothing’ continues to resonate as a call to commitment and responsibility in the construction of a fairer and freer society
Argentina vindicates the cultural legacy of the Father of the Nation
Written for the History Series of the Peruvian Times on the occasion of the anniversary of San Martín’s death
It follows a visit to the Casa San Martín in Boulogne
the house-museum busily preparing for the bicentennial anniversary of Peru’s Declaration of Independence proclaimed by San Martín on July 28
When the history of the Peruvian communities in Europe comes to be written
the opening chapter should refer to the role of San Martín
His extra quarter-century of life compared to Bolívar
enabled San Martín to enjoy almost a second career
to establish himself as an “inter-revolutionary émigré proper” and hence become an early foundational figure amongst Peruvian
When Bolívar died he too had been destined for exile in Europe
Following his pre-1822 martial achievements
San Martín’s later experience (including the posthumous and retrospective!) has been the transformation into one of the prime iconic “figures of heritage identity” in France — alongside Flora Tristán
Cesar Vallejo and a few other notable figures
Neither San Martín nor Tristán were exactly Peruvian in terms of birth or long residence in Peru but both rendered service to the country (Flora was
related to the eminent Tristán/Moscoso family from Arequipa
and later was “adopted” as a patron saint of the Peruvian feminist movement)
José Francisco de San Martín y Matorras (1778 – 1850)
Triumphs included his contribution to defeating Napoleon in Spain
since the death of Liberator José Francisco de San Martín y Matorras (25 February 1778 – 17 August 1850) in Boulogne-sur-Mer on the north coast of France
In spite of numerous monuments and intense coverage of his campaigns for the independence of Chile and Peru
little has been written about the final years of the General’s life in the way that
Gabriel García Márquez in “The General in his Labyrinth” —a masterpiece of history with a wrapping of fiction— dealt with the last days of Simon Bolivar
John Lynch has written two fine books devoted to the lives of José de San Martín and Simón Bolívar
Whom the gods love die young (only the good die young)
provides a wonderfully accessible account of Simon Bolívar’s last months
He was eight years old when José de San Martín (the ‘co-libertador’ of Hispanic South America) was born
He was later in active correspondence with the then reformist President of Peru
he lived long enough to see Peru begin to emerge (only just
as of say 1845) from the long period of post-colonial chaos and Caudillo wars
In older age – the portrait above is from 1848 — San Martin sought refuge from the Argentine civil war in London and then in Brussels
the 1830 rebellion and conflict with the Netherlands drove him to Paris
and then the 1848 revolution there saw him seek asylum again in Britain but ill health prevented it
That same year he made it as far as Boulogne on the coast of France
His daughter and son-in-law were at his side when he died 17 August
symbolic particularly of the Chilean and Peruvian campaigns
is the equestrian statue of him in the Parc Montsouris
a focal point for commemorating the 1821 Declaration of Independence
San Martín’s contact with the French and the British goes back to well before 1821
Notably it was the British Navy that facilitated his arrival back in Argentina
the acquisition of the book “El General San Martín: Última etapa Boulogne-sur-Mer” (in French and Spanish only) by Pierre Camusat
the taking of a few photos of the General’s equestrian statue by the Boulogne waterside and
the current Argentinian conservator of the museum
provoked questions such as “Why the flight from conflict?”
The quarter-century flight from conflict and the last days of San Martín
Perhaps as emigrés we are interested in San Martín’s later role as the (unwitting) community icon which both stresses the past links in this case between Peru
Every year around this time of the Fiestas Patrias
airtime is spent on detailing aspects of the General’s life and campaigns but perhaps not so much is known about his “quarter-century flight from conflict.”
1921 — The first centenary of the Independence
There is no doubting the importance of General José Francisco de San Martín in Peru’s path to Republican Government
As the opening project for the Peruvian Republic’s centenary celebrations of 1921
a rail terminus station was pulled down and two smaller “plazuelas” realigned in order to make way for central Lima’s new Square: the Plaza San Martín
It was named in honor of the General who had
with Chilean and Argentine troops (mainly)
“introduced” liberation to seemingly reluctant Limeños
On 28 July 1821 he had declared Peru free from the colonial power of Spain
At that stage it was only Lima (other than a few cities like Trujillo) that had been evacuated by the viceregal forces of La Serna
It was in 1826 that the last Spanish troops were finally withdrawn following battles at Junín and Ayacucho in 1824
a last ditch campaign in Upper Peru in 1825 and
the final tragic siege and surrender at the Royal Fortress of San Felipe in Callao
Peru commemorated both the 1921 and 1924 centenary
The fact that it was a statue of San Martín
which had been proposed as the centerpiece for the Plaza
led to a serious dispute with Venezuela (Bolivariano por excelencia)
attempted to defuse the situation by naming a (really the) new “grand” hotel in honor of Bolívar
It was built on the north-west side of the square especially to receive the distinguished international guests invited to the centenary celebration
The hotel after many years of decline is still there (see note Furnished)
was not impressed: too much of an afterthought which additionally failed to be completed on time
The honored guests were distributed around Lima in the homes of the aristocracy
the date 28 July 1821 remains intimately associated with San Martín
for it was he who declared independence (somewhat prematurely) from the famous balconies in Huaura and Lima
By 1921 only the statue and its portentous plinth were in place
Parts of the unfinished perimeter buildings around the plaza were disguised by boardings
Noticeable in one photo is the oversize advertisement for W.Grace and Co
— the name synonymous with US influence in the Peruvian economy — and contrasts with the intensely symbolic and hispanic figure of San Martín riding high: higher than most of the many other equestrian statues/monuments to San Martín in the world – and there are many
the Peruvian Embassy joins with the Peruvian Cultural Center at the base of José de San Martín’s statue on July 28 to celebrate his life
and in the north of France a substantial “maison bourgeoise” at number 113 Grande Rue
third UK) floor of the building for the last two years of his life
But that’s not all: the French equestrian monument (the first – 1909 – of the two) to San Martín is to be found at the bottom of the steep incline of the Grand Rue which connects the Lower Town to the Old Inner Citadel of Boulogne
Locally the statue is considered to have almost magical properties (it is said) as it was the only entity in the neighborhood to survive the intense bombardments during the Second World War of the port quarter of Boulogne
He had left Peru in 1823 and taken a ship from Buenos Aires to France but on arrival at Le Havre the authorities refused him permission to land
fearing his reputation as a “revolutionary.” He continued to England with his daughter and thereafter to Brussels
Those leading the rebellions in Belgium that year were requesting San Martín to lead them
His “dislike of conflict” caused him to “flee” to France
The interior of San Martín’s last residence at 113 Grande Rue
demonstrate the economy and order of a military lifestyle
The floorboards under the death-bed of the General had been removed at some point and transported to Argentina
In 1848 this was one of the most fashionable houses in the city’s most prestigious street
The French “tricolore” flag flies alongside that of Argentina
The house is considered as if on Argentine soil
as part of the cultural section of the Embassy
Emigré would seem to be appropriate in the historical context — rather than migrant
And San Martín would only stay until the next revolution
American Hero by John Lynch — José de San Martín (1778–1850) was an enigmatic figure—a revolutionary and a conservative
a professional soldier and an intellectual
a taciturn man who nevertheless was able to inspire the peoples of South America to follow his armies and accept his battle strategies
One of the great leaders in the wars for independence
he was a pivotal force in the liberation of Chile and Peru from Spanish rule
In the first full English-language biography of San Martín in more than half a century
John Lynch shines new light on San Martín and on the story of Spanish America’s revolutionary wars
Lynch offers a series of dramatic set pieces: the Peninsular War
in which San Martín fought the French and learned his military skills; the crossing of the Andes
when his army battled the forces of nature as well as enemy fire; the confrontation with imperial Spain in Peru; and the standoff with Bolívar which led to San Martín’s resignation and exile in Europe
San Martín enhances our understanding of the modern history of Latin America and one of its most brilliant leaders
Is the Gran Hotel Bolivar still open for business
far left) poses with his B-17 crew in an undated photograph
Wilson was later killed in action when his B-17 took ground fire on the crews’ thirds mission together over German occupied France on July 8
483rd Bomb Group over the marshaling yards at Nis
this crew were on only their third mission together
date and location undefined | Photo courtesy Erik Bornemeier
One of thousands of suspected fragments of U.S
recovered in Northern France by volunteers and staff with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency during a recent search to locate and repatriate Wilson’s remains
location and date not specified | Photo courtesy Erik Bornemeier
Stalag Luft IV taken outside the barbed wire at barracks No
The camp was divided into five compounds separated by barbed wire fences
with the POWs housed in 40 wooden barrack huts
date not specified | Photo courtesy United States National Archives
captured by German troops during the Battle of the Bulge
to a man POWs were often subject to harsh treatment and execution at the hands of their Nazi captors
location not specified | Photo courtesy United States National Archives
1944 – D-Day – an aircrew aboard a B-17 Flying Fortress would have been part of a massive aerial armada
one of thousands who participated in World War II’s most significant air operations during the war
their eyes met the sight of countless other aircraft and naval vessels
all components of an unprecedented military operation to liberate Europe from the tyranny of the Nazi regime
– a formidable force of more than 156,000 American
Canadian and British troops made a historic landing on the shores of Utah
Juno and Sword beaches along a 70-mile front in Southern France
and the unsettled and stormy ocean below bristled with the Allies’ combined maritime might
The most extensive amphibious assault in recorded history had begun
heavy bombers and fighters were sent against France’s Boulogne and Calais regions
German anti-aircraft fire sent up a deadly wall of flak
threatening the skies through which they flew
a B-17 navigator with the 398th Bomb Group,601st Squadron
“They got us up at (midnight) this morning,” Benefiel added
we learned that we were to start the invasion with a heavy pounding of the invasion coast
Our bombs hit the coast just ten minutes before our troops were to land
there was a complete undercast so we couldn’t see anything but saw plenty of boats in the channel
We were all very sleepy after going on four raids in four days and we all hit the sack and slept for 20 hours.”
nearly 15,000 Allied planes ranged over the Normandy countryside on D-Day
eventually dropping 13,000 tons of bombs during the first four days of the invasion
while going on to shoot down nearly 1,000 enemy planes during the first month of fighting
But the B-17 crews were not immune to survival in the sky
Since they were often assigned to the busiest parts of Germany
they only had a 25% to 33% chance of surviving the 25 missions needed to complete their combat tour
American aircrews continued their attacks on enemy positions that now included launch sites in France against German’s “vengeance” weapons
the world’s first operational cruise missile tipped with a 1,870-pound warhead and a staggering average range for its time of 150 miles
almost 25,000 V-1s were launched against targets in England and Belgium
and more than 1 million left homeless from V-1 attacks
Little more than one month after the D-Day landings
together with his eight-man B-17 crew embarked in one of 23 heavy bombers assigned to obliterate a V-1 rocket site near Humières-Fresnoy
Wilson’s family moved back to Utah around 1940
At the time of his enlistment records indicate Wilson was living in the San Francisco Bay area and working in an armaments factory
According to Wilson’s surviving family members
His sister – Virginia – was his best friend
He spoke about him in every letter sent home
anti-aircraft fire ripped between the number one and two engines
the crippled bomber (at an altitude of approximately 19,000 feet) had to leave the formation,” said Senior Master Sgt
Winn in a 2019 article written for the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service
While the crew onboard Wilson’s B-17G – serial number 42-102445 – were unable to determine if he had been killed by the flak burst immediately
at least one report from a nearby B-17 maintained that the dying pilot may have still been alive and able to fly the stricken aircraft for an unknown distance
“Just before bombs away Lt Wilson’s ship appeared to be in trouble
He dropped down a little (in altitude) and then started sliding to the right
He was still under control when I last saw him,” said 2nd Lt
and eyewitness to the flak strike in a deposition taken by the U.S
recalled his own private hell trying to leave Wilson’s plane in a 2020 interview with Erik Bornemeier
“The guys upfront … must have found their way out and got out of there in a hurry.”
Atkinson was likely the first crew member to bail out
with the others in the front of the plane swiftly following
he made his way through the stricken plane
one that damaged the firewall separating the flight crew from the bombardier and navigator
one strike to the noise of the aircraft and the fatal hit between engines one and two
Dye knew there were only precious moments left to make a decision
crawled through (the damaged) controls wires (for the elevator and rudder) … shell casings
and disconnected myself from the oxygen and electric heater.”
Dye pointed himself toward the exit hatch but stopped abruptly
‘What would my mother think,’ and from then on
After what he said seemed like an eternity
Dye managed to open the escape hatch just enough to stick his left leg out – losing his boot in the air stream – before he was sucked clear from the B-17
Looking up at 28 feet of nylon parachute above his head
‘What a beautiful sight,’ but I didn’t think what was right there below me.”
ensuring the crew had ample time to bail out while avoiding significant landmarks on the ground
Whether Wilson was alive or dead aboard the Flying Fortress’ fall from the sky
the heavily armed bomber exploded into an empty field in northern France
The details of the crew’s exit from the aircraft were mostly a mystery until 2018
a master sergeant in the Utah Air National Guard
began to investigate the events of that morning
Armed with declassified reports – both American
German and French – including open-source documents as well as access to experts
the Bornemeiers were astonished as details soon emerged that would galvanize the extraordinary tale of “grand-uncle George” and his ill-fated mission
“It’s been a journey of controlled excitement
because so many aircraft fell out of the sky,” said Erik Bornemeier
“This plane was literately one of thousands shot down during World War II.”
Bornemeier reached out to French journalist Pierre Vion
hoping to spread the word about his search for answers
Vion embraced the cause and broadcast the story across social media
several individuals came forward with their recollections of the day
including a local farmer who remembered his father’s tales of a wartime plane that had crashed in their field
The farmer’s son provided vivid details about finding metal fragments and pieces every time they plowed their field
Convinced that the plane had gone down near Monchy-Cayeux
Bornemeier resolved to travel to the suspected crash site
my goal was not only to find the remains of Lt
Wilson but to tell the story,” Bornemeier said
“Eventually I had the story of the event as well as the stories from the crew
I didn’t want his sacrifice to remain silent
Shortly after Bornemeier began looking for Wilson’s remains in 2018
funded by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency – a government agency responsible for finding the bodies of American soldiers who have been prisoners of war or missing in action since World War II – began a multi-year archaeological dig of the crash site
(2022) we recovered more than 5,000 fragments that allowed us to confirm that it is indeed a B-17 bomber
Even if several testimonies suggest that it is George Wilson’s (plane) … we decided to come back because we didn’t find the pilot
Marine and director of operations for the search team
including members of the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars
along with students from the University of Colorado
meticulously excavated Wilson’s crash site
It’s mostly about carrying buckets of dirt; it’s not always fun and sexy,” Prehoda said in 2021
several kilos of aircraft fragments had been recovered
strangers would come looking for me,” Prehoda added
“So … everyone will continue to exhaust themselves with the crazy hope of finding George Wilson and (bring) his remains back to his native land
which would put an end to (this) adventure,” Prehoda told journalists with the local French newspaper – Le Gobelin du Ternois in August 2022
One of the most compelling stories of Wilson’s crew’s fight for survival was from Sgt
An Army Air Corps’ flight engineer with the 398th Bomb Group
he was just four days shy of his 22nd birthday when it was shot out of the sky
and his job was to come down to be the eyes and ears of the pilots because they were focused on flying the plane,” Bornemeier said
across the bomb bay to make sure everyone had bailed out of the failing aircraft
“On his way back to the cockpit Sandy was putting his parachute on and dropped it out of the bomb bay
At that point he knew that he was kind of hosed,” Bornemeier said
Undeterred – yet unable to leave the plane – Walke checked on his pilot
who had left the pilot seat and had collapsed on the fuselage,” Bornemeier said
Sandy looked up and saw his dad who had passed a year earlier.”
Walke’s dad had a simple message for his son
took Wilson’s parachute and bailed out into the unknown
Along with Bornemeier’s interview with Walke (before his death in 2021)
Tampa Bay Times’ reporter Logan Neill met with the man in 2012
Walke’s experience began when he climbed aboard the B-17 in the predawn hours of July 8
together with other units from the 1st Air Division and the air forces of the United Kingdom
was tasked that day with attacking V-1 launch sites in France
The mission was anticipated to be uncomplicated because of favorable weather
and the expectation of minimal anti-aircraft artillery
“Walke recalled joking with his nine fellow flight crew members
All were expecting that bombing mission … would be fairly routine – a ‘milk run’ – that would last no more than a couple hours,” Neill said
As the squadron of B-17s neared the target zone
the formation of bombers encountered a heavy barrage of anti-aircraft artillery fire
Walke’s aircraft sustained four direct hits
disabling the radio and hydraulic systems and inflicting serious injuries on Wilson
“While the rest of crew was abandoning the plane
Walke moved toward the cockpit to help Wilson
Walke rushed to the rear and jumped,” Neill said
Walker quickly noticed it was riddled with flak damage
Clutching the shroud lines to decelerate his fall
he soon became aware of the sound of German machine guns firing from below
“I saw tracers flying by all around me,” Walke said
Walke remembers that he was greeted by a French farmer who offered him a welcome shot of cognac
Then German soldiers moved in and captured him
all but one of the crew who bailed out over France were taken as prisoners of war by the Germans
waist gunner was saved by French partisans and able to avoid capture before returning to England
Perhaps the luckiest man of the crew was Sgt
According to a report by the International Red Cross
with the majority sent to Stalag Luft IV (now in Poland)
the four airmen soon found that they were living in a nightmare that plagued their dreams long after the end of the war
The first 64 arrivals entered Stalag Luft IV on May 14
the camp would house more than 10,000 prisoners from the United States
Depending on which of the camp’s four compounds the men found themselves in
The huts were only partially finished when the camp opened
consisting of a daily ration of bread – approximately 10 ounces; margarine – 1 ounce; and plain boiled potatoes or a soup mixture made up of potatoes and other vegetables
Barley was usually served every week along with a quarter pound of sugar
as the Soviet forces advanced into German after their breakout at Leningrad
the Nazis decided to evacuate Stalag Luft IV
approximately 8,000 of the camp’s POWs began a 500-mile
86-day forced march to the west in subzero weather
for which they were not adequately prepared to face
Resolved to survive or perish in the attempt
Walke and a British soldier seized a fleeting opportunity during the death march to dash into the woods when their German captors were distracted
the pair navigated enemy territory under the cover of darkness
“They hid in barns and abandoned buildings during the day
Their only comfort was the several packs of cigarettes that Walke had saved from his Red Cross packages,” Neill said
Walke and his companion were awakened by the deep
throaty rumble of Allied tanks rolling down the road
“He remembers that the unit commander was astonished by his condition – he weighed a mere 80 pounds and had several months of beard growth – but nonetheless ordered Walke and his British companion to immediately take the responsibility of guarding several German prisoners,” Neill said
he trained to join Army operations in the Pacific Theater
But the surrender of Japan a few months later meant that Walke would be returning to his home in Detroit.”
The treatment was especially hard on POWs who could not keep up and fell out of formation
and hit with rifle butts on (our) backs and buttocks,” said Staff Sgt
Bill Krebs during a deposition for the Judge Advocate War Crimes Investigation after the war
“One prisoner had from 50 to 60 punctures on his back and buttocks which had been made by German bayonets wielded by guards,” Krebs said
the only food we had to eat was a little dried sauerkraut and a little bread
When the Red Cross parcels for the prisoners arrived
The Germans ate the best of the food while we were on extremely short rations and almost allowed to starve.”
Contaminated water was frequently the only available option
the GIs often had to forage for their meals and firewood
sometimes finding nothing more than a potato to boil
Excitement erupted when a chicken was liberated from a French farmer
the meat came from the farmer’s cat or dog
On the rare occasion that the POWs managed to acquire a goose or a rabbit
they would warm it through over an open fire
savoring the rare luxury down to the last bone
the scarcity of food reportedly led the prisoners to consume even the bones
there was a total lack of sanitary facilities
Coupled with a completely inadequate diet of about 770 calories per day
contrasted to the 3,500 provided by the US military services
disease among the POWs became rampant: typhus fever spread by body lice
pellagra and other diseases plagued nearly all of the prisoners
in barns or any other shelter that could be found
Some of the men were reported to have frozen in their sleep
The German government provided no clothing
They carried two blankets and an overcoat for bedding
The average POW lost a third of his body weight after capture
from ditches beside the road or ate snow when available
The treatment they received was similar to that at Stalag Luft IV
The POWs were in this camp for about a week
when they were taken on the final leg of the march
with the Russian and Western Allied forces closing in rapidly
the POWs of Stalag Luft IV marched for days eventually crossing the River Elbe on or about March 21
Although accurate numbers are impossible to obtain
as many as 1,300 prisoners of war are estimated to have died during the death march
more than 425,000 Allied and German troops were killed
This included more than 209,000 Allied casualties
with nearly 37,000 dead among ground forces and a further 16,714 deaths among Allied air forces
Roughly 200,000 German troops were killed or wounded
between 15,000 and 20,000 French civilians were killed
“The people who fought were just guys that were doing their jobs
But a lot of them ended up paying a hell of a price.”
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exercise serves an important dual purpose: burning off the ridiculous amounts of calories you should be consuming during your visit and helping you see a version of the City of Light beyond the tourist clichés
be warned: you’re more likely to get a cigarette put out on your thigh than you are to see a Parisian move out of your way on one of the city’s busy streets
it’s wise to stick to more defined parks and socially acceptable running routes
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the two streets parallel to the canal—Quai de Valmy and Quai de Jemmapes—are reserved for pedestrians and cyclists
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right on the edge of the Boulevard Périphérique
turn around and pick out one of the hip cafés and bars on the canal for a post-workout l’apero (apertif)
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try doing laps around the 1.5-mile path surrounding Lac Inférieur
The closest Metro stations are Porte Dauphine and Ranelagh
This domaine national (national park) is actually located outside what’s officially considered Paris—which is everything encircled by the ring road known as Boulevard Périphérique—but it’s worth the trip
the park dates back to the 16th century when it served as the preferred residence of Napolean Bonaparte
it’s been distinguished one of the most remarkable green spaces in Europe
Running through the centuries-old fountains
and perfectly straight tree-lined paths is an other-worldly experience and will keep you entertained for miles
It also offers two things that are hard to find within the Périphérique: a panoramic view of the city (which can be found at the park’s highest elevation
La Lanterne viewpoint) and comparatively fewer crowds compared to inner Paris’ parks
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So where to run now that the quays of the Seine are closed
Here are all our favorite spots to keep you going
Running enthusiasts know this haven of peace nestled in the 8ᵉ arrondissement well
it will be totally possible to run there without being bothered
we’d still advise you to go in the cool of the morning to be able to run more serenely
the Bois de Vincennes gives you plenty of room to let off steam
The Bois de Vincennes is not very central…
For a lovely run in the heart of Paris, this is the place to be. You’ll find some interesting slopes and, if you feel like it, you can even go for a swim! That’s right, this year the Canal Saint-Martin is part of “Paris plage”
then you’ll love the Buttes-Chaumont
the park is a fantastic open-air playground for training
The Bois de Boulogne is quite simply a favorite playground for runners
it will offer you 846 hectares on the banks of the Seine
Its varied landscapes will keep you on your toes
San Martin Day is an annual celebration observed on the third Monday in August
Argentina commemorates the death anniversary of its founding father
He was a general in the Argentine army and the frontline leader in the struggle for independence from Spain by Argentina and other southern nations of Southern America
and his death is observed as a national holiday in Argentina
San Martin Day celebrates one of the founding fathers of Latin America
He led the revolution against Spanish rule in the southern nations of South America and Liberated Argentina
following his resignation from the Spanish army
General San Martin joined the patriot forces in Buenos Aires that led the revolution that granted Argentina temporary freedom from Spanish rule
General San Martin believed that Argentina’s complete freedom would only come from dislodging Spanish forces in Peru
General Martin took up the governorship of the province of Cuyo
He wanted to advance his plans of liberation and established a new army unit called the “Army of the Andes” in Cuyo Province
His liberation conquest did not end there as he led the Crossing of the Andes to Chile
where he triumphed at the Battle of Chacabuco and the Battle of Maipú in 1818 and liberated Chile from royalist rule
he is recognized in Argentina as the “Padre de la Patria,” the Father of Argentina
San Martin and his troops win the battle of Chacabuco
earning him the title “Knight of the Andes.”
General Martin enters Lima and liberates it from Spanish rule
San Martin is bestowed the title “Protector of Peru” by the Peruvians
an equestrian statue of General San Martin is erected
The Argentinian military body holds traditions such as the reenactment of the freedom campaign on the grounds of the Mounted Grenadier Regiment
Because José de San Martin was not of complete Spanish ancestry
you can visit the Unity museum in Argentina to see firsthand the saber of José de San Martín
you can make travel arrangements to visit Argentina for the celebration
Be sure to snap some pictures and post them on social media
You can join in on the celebration by educating yourself
Watch a documentary or a short film on the achievements of José de San Martín
The Federals of Argentina recognized Martin as a national hero while he was alive and after his demise
San Martin was the founder of the National Library of Peru
San Martin retired to a quiet life in France
San Martin was raised to the rank of Sub-Lieutenant in 1793
San Martin was awarded a gold medal and promoted to Lieutenant Colonel
San Martin Day celebrates the history of Argentina and the journey to its Independence
It is important to know the history of one's country
San Martin Day honors a national hero who led the fight for the independence of three countries
There is something extremely special about this
San Martin day promotes the ideals of democracy
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just before a contentious presidential election on May 7
Sanguinetti said she noticed a shift in cultural traditions
and a gap between urban and rural life as the country’s main stressors
“I felt an unspoken unease and fragility: subtle tensions between the old and the new; the sense of something ending
and the uncertainty of what is ahead,” she explains in the exhibition’s press release
Children were her most frequent subjects; other times
she photographed generations of women together
like one photo of an older woman holding a young girl close
The exhibition is accompanied by a bilingual book in French and English
co-published by Aperture and the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès
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a trip largely revolving around sitting reading in the sun
eating vast quantities of fries with every meal and taking a series of decreasingly flattering photos of one another in front of fountains
our phones were rarely far from view: messaging our friends and family back home
this meant that we saw a lot of adverts jostling for our attention in the corners of our online lives — mostly for local tourist attractions or questionable fast-fashion products
But if I’d had the language on my phone set to Arabic
or had searched for recommendations for Syrian restaurants (which
are some of the best places to eat in the city)
I’d have had a rather different experience
Instead of a promotion for half-price entry to Rene Magritte’s house
I’d have been bombarded with a series of grim messages accusing me of breaking the law and telling me that I’d be deported or thrown in jail
or that I risked an imminent and violent death if I tried to travel to England illegally
I know all this because of my research — I’m an academic studying digital technologies and the roles they play in emerging forms of harm at the University of Edinburgh
I gained access to a huge amount of audience and targeting data held by Meta
the company that runs Facebook and Instagram
known as its “Ad library” — political adverts
I already knew that authorities in the U.K
were devising highly targeted ads to shape behavior
using the immense amount of personal data Meta stores
from what you read and buy online to your exact physical location
Adopting better communication techniques is no bad thing in itself
which used intimidating tactics to push their policy
Home Office has been using Facebook and Instagram to target vulnerable refugees with threatening fear-based messages
Social media platforms have woven sophisticated surveillance and influence technologies directly into the fabric of our day-to-day lives
as we all know from the ubiquitous ads that most of us have learned to tune out
But what has previously been hidden from sight is that this same technology is now being used by governments
giving them powers they didn’t have before
authorities are using fine-grained profiles of people inside and outside the country to reach directly into people’s lives
even innocuous — encouraging the population to vote
go for medical checkups and other behavioral nudges that are in the personal and public good — but without transparency we can have no understanding about unintended consequences
up to and including potential harms inflicted on those being targeted
there are more fundamental questions about privacy to consider
Does the government have a right to use these influence techniques on its citizens without their knowledge
in domains that often cross into matters of politics — not public health
government hoping that this would remain behind closed doors
Meta’s decision to make all this information available to researchers is forcing all these questions out into the open
but only if you have the skills to navigate the data
Our research is blowing the lid off a series of covertly targeted campaigns that show the government beginning to flex its muscles and use these new capacities for potentially more dangerous kinds of influence: fear-based campaigns targeted at vulnerable groups
Together with researchers at the universities of Strathclyde
I’ve been studying the rise of this new approach to advertising in the U.K
Our team calls this new phenomenon “influence government” — or
“influence policing” — to describe how the state has begun using the marketing tools of the social media platforms in the service of public policy
we haven’t known how these adverts work “under the hood.” Our wider research shows that this was all being driven by a controversial approach to government policy that has become embedded in the U.K
based on a behavioral theory known as nudge
Nudge is an idea which might have been tailor-made for the U.K
nudge uses a toolkit of subtle tricks to push people toward particular behaviors
Many of these have been used extensively in the private sector to drive purchasing
A trivial example is that people are more likely to buy a product costing $9.98 than one priced at $10.00
as the additional digit inflates the perceived cost
Similar innovations have been seen in the design of buildings and public spaces: Airports now force you to walk through duty free before you get to the departure lounge
took these approaches and synthesized them into a framework for shaping society
Often described as “libertarian paternalism,” their work was a major influence on former Prime Minister David Cameron’s coalition government in the U.K
but that the public would never accept being directly told what to do from above
Instead of telling the public to change their behavior
policymakers would subtly shape the environment in which they made decisions
the architecture of buildings and the design of public services
in order to make people feel like they were choosing to change their behavior themselves
A classic example draws on the idea that most people don’t deviate from the “default” option unless they have strong views
making organ donation opt-out rather than opt-in drastically increases the number of people donating their organs
while retaining the element of personal choice
This was all combined with a change in how the government communicates
Instead of simple awareness campaigns telling the public to stop smoking or pick up their litter
more “strategic” adverts incorporate contextual analysis of the cultures and perceptions of different groups to craft narratives more likely to be noticed
Some of this involves detailed research into cultural narratives within particular groups that underpin the behaviors the government is trying to change
Real examples include allowing the National Health Service (NHS) to pinpoint specific misconceptions or worries around blood donation held by minority ethnic communities and counter them directly in the ad content
Others involve a more “hypodermic” model — using the intimacy of social media platforms to deliver the ad “in the moment” as someone does something undesirable
the police might target someone with a stern warning and a picture of a police officer when they search for illegal content online
Rather than descend into conspiracy theory about secretive government propaganda
it’s important to realize much of this boils down to the kind of innocuous “stop smoking” messages on cigarette packets
classic marketing techniques and minor improvements to public services that most of us would expect our government to be working on
much of this would simply be considered good marketing practice
But as these campaigns have endured and evolved in the post-Cameron years
they have become increasingly widespread and high-tech in the U.K.
and a number of issues have become dangerously apparent
Nowhere are these issues more prominent than in the realms of borders and national security
with policy recently focusing on stopping the “small boats” used by vulnerable refugees who
attempt a difficult crossing over the English Channel from France to the U.K
The Home Office has tried several approaches to reducing these crossings
drawing on nudge theory combined with a simplistic and much-disproven “deterrence” model
The theory is that if the government makes the crossings more dangerous and difficult
treats the people who make it across worse
increases enforcement of both these aspects
and finally ramps up fear-based communications
then refugees will judge that the risks outweigh the benefits and choose not to attempt it
It might seem absurd to think that a “nudge” in behavior or a targeted advert would deter someone fleeing war and death
someone spending everything they have to reach Calais
What is even more surprising is that the government would be able to reach these people at all
It is here — in the targeting itself — that the nudge aspects take on a more frightening role
Our research has now revealed that these adverts use deeply invasive forms of digital targeting to deliver their messages
They are a high-tech version of former Home Secretary (and later Prime Minister) Theresa May’s infamous “Go Home” vans
to create a “hostile environment” for illegal immigrants
the Home Office hired vehicles with the words “Go Home” on them and drove them around areas with high immigrant populations
Instead of physically driving racially charged adverts around the streets
fine-grained digital profiling tools are now being used to target vulnerable groups
Digital advertising is nothing new; it is a core part of the business model underpinning the social media platforms that govern so much of our lives
Services like Facebook and Google are free precisely because they collect our data — what we watch
who we are and our minute-to-minute location in the world — and turn it into complex profiles that advertisers can use to send us messages
The “built environment” of the social media platforms on which we increasingly live our lives is shot through with mechanisms for studying and influencing our behavior
Although this always felt “creepy” to some people
Coca-Cola might want to make different adverts to appeal to different sections of the public
a restaurant might want to advertise promotional offers to people physically nearby
and a sneakers brand might want to target people who had recently searched for “buy sneakers” on Google
Things began to seem more ominous with the Cambridge Analytica scandal
when it transpired that political campaigners were using these tools to try to drive voting behavior and sway elections
But how do you use marketing tools designed to sell shoes and drinks to stop vulnerable refugees from crossing the channel in small boats
Facebook’s ad platform is designed for commercial use and has no category for “refugees in Calais.” Instead
the Home Office and their contractors (who do research in refugee camps and conflict zones) have built up profiles of the different refugee groups they want to target by combining multiple layers of minute behaviors and interests with location data detected by the platform
Another targets Vietnamese speakers in Calais who have recently spent time in other European countries
But these categories — created for commercial purposes — can be combined into what we call “patchwork profiles” to target extremely specific groups
A snippet of what this looks like gives an insight into one of the “patchwork profiles” that have been assembled by the contractors in an attempt to find and deter refugees:
Location: TRAVELLING THROUGH: Blankenberge
My first reaction to seeing this profile was shock
The behaviors and interests feel deeply personal
They are partly based on people’s Facebook and Instagram activity — liking particular pages or declaring demographic information
But much of this is collected automatically through Meta’s extensive infrastructure of cookies and trackers — which detect the things you show an interest in as you travel around the internet
Visit a fan site for the Afghan Premier League
and those interests are added to your targeting profile
despite the fact that these two interests are somewhat incongruous
This is combined with the list of target locations
which casts a tight digital net around real physical spaces
then draws routes to the sea through a series of tiny towns on the way to the coast: Nazareth
it spreads out in a thin band along the coastline: Calais
making your way from Brussels to the coast
your phone’s location sensor will allow the platform to target you directly
The ad platform’s surveillance data is so finely detailed that it even lets you distinguish people who live in these areas from people who are visiting
Another set of categories that were clearly created to market products to people on a holiday or business trip have been repurposed to target these vulnerable refugees:
Although these systems claim not to put our data in the hands of governments
the levers they have created for shaping our behavior are giving authorities power and specific reach that were previously unattainable
I found the content of these campaigns — and found it even more alarming
The campaigns are clearly designed to cause fear in the people who see them
roiling waves and terrified people on tiny boats
The text of the adverts relies on frightening and accusatory content to project a kind of “digital border,” declaiming
we will arrest you as a people smuggler” and “Small boats will be destroyed by big ones in the channel” — in Pashto
They are clearly based on nudge philosophy
pulling apart every conceivable aspect of the “decision environment” faced by refugees — potential prosecution
the chance of being scammed — and trying to change the perception
These are all real concerns facing those who make a channel crossing and some might argue that the Home Office is trying to help them
these people are facing danger not primarily because the sea is dangerous or because smugglers are untrustworthy (though these are undoubtedly true)
government has deliberately shut down all of the possible safe legal routes for them to enter the country — leaving only the most dangerous options
The dangers involved are unlikely to be news to them by the time they reach the French coastline — but the adverts themselves will contribute to the stigma
we’ll have no effect,” but communications — especially when underpinned by the lethal force of the state — can themselves cause harm
known as “blowback,” reflects the enormous complexity of how communications campaigns are actually received by the public
many unintended recipients may be exposed to it
who may interpret it in an entirely different way from the intended audience
work near or simply visit France and Belgium will receive ads invisible to their friends and neighbors
potentially creating — or increasing — feelings of stigmatization
And the second order effects of communications — even when they hit the “right” people — can interfere with messages in all kinds of ways
recipients’ feelings of being targeted might diminish trust in authorities that might be able to help them
or play into the hands of people looking to exploit them
Extremist groups have long sought to drive a wedge between their targets and society; ads from governments popping up on social media feeds and suggesting people from your background are not welcome here are grist to their mill
The Meta Ad Library shows us who actually saw the adverts
The Home Office’s target audiences varied hugely
from tens of thousands of people to only a few hundred
The bulk of the ads landed where you might expect — mostly in Brussels and the Flemish Region of Belgium
But the “tail” of the data shows a much wider reach
This happened when they ran ads targeting Arabic speakers who had just been in Brussels — when they added “away from family” to this profile
this slimmed the target audience down from 500,000 to 5,000
But the fact remains — thousands of Arabic speakers around the world
including many visiting Brussels on holiday or for business
I realized that I was witnessing a sociological experiment: I could see at a glance where Arabic-speaking people who visited Brussels were traveling for the duration of the ad campaign
This shows how invasive these new forms of advertising can be (and why we should be cautious about the government using them)
A researcher looking into the data held by Meta years after it was gathered can track travel patterns of certain demographic groups without anyone knowing
this advertising indicates the power that these infrastructures wield not only to influence us
but to give governments a view into our lives that they never had before — seeing how information spreads online and how we react to it in real time
Looking at these and other campaigns as a sociologist produces a truly strange effect
You can see how the British state sees different groups and how the Meta platform offers up hundreds of tiny aspects of their lives to build bespoke profiles and target them directly
Nor is it only people wanting to build a new life in the U.K
Large numbers of these kinds of campaigns are aimed within the borders of the U.K
Most of these campaigns are far more innocuous — and less likely to use fear — but the intimate digital targeting still raises real concerns
As government communications become more dependent on nudge theory
Although it may be absolutely appropriate for the state to make sure that some parts of the population are getting particular messages
doing so on the basis of extensive surveillance of their online and offline lives is a different matter
There needs to be far more transparency in how government nudge ads are being targeted so that the public can understand what they are seeing and how their data is being used
This transparency itself can be a powerful defense against unintended consequences and blowback — otherwise
the field is left open to conspiracy theories and speculation
These targeted campaigns showcase the sharp end of the capabilities that the new ad infrastructures have given governments
We miss a trick when we think about the human right to privacy as simply a matter of who has our data — privacy is just as much about who can exert influence on us and how
Although they were created for commercial marketing
the ad systems of social media platforms have handed governments a profound window into our lives: an endlessly configurable menu of characteristics that they can use to target us
and access to the most intimate spaces in which to drop their nudges
A closer look shows how particular subcultures and minorities have been targeted
these ads were intended to promote specific supportive resources
Some ads are aimed at those showing an interest in Islamic theology
so if you like far-right figures and media
you will be deselected from certain campaigns
the Meta platform allowed even more precise ways of doing this
medium or lower” levels of engagement with online content during Ramadan and offering this to advertisers as part of their targeting system
while it is undoubtedly reasonable that the Scottish government should try to increase use of its COVID-19 app among particular groups with lower levels of vaccination
or that London’s Tower Hamlets Council might invite local Muslim residents to a public discussion of hate crime
both of these campaigns used detected levels of online activity during Ramadan as part of this targeting
which involves a whole raft of assumptions about religion and behavior
The details suggest that targeting used by the government and its contractors is often simultaneously simplistic and invasive
the interests that would trigger being targeted (in addition to levels of content engagement during Ramadan) were:
But there were further categories that would exclude you — including drinking
gambling and liking far-right figures and media:
The geographical targeting was extremely precise
as might be expected given that the campaign was targeted at Muslims living only in the London borough of Tower Hamlets
If you studied the Quran or engaged with Ramadan content online
the chances of seeing the ad — a fairly innocuous invitation to a public meeting with the police and the local council — went up
It’s not just Muslims — all sorts of diaspora communities are being similarly stereotyped through the same invasive online observations
Individuals are targeted once they’ve registered interest in a certain culture
government ad campaign to promote support for small businesses
minority ethnic communities in London were defined through the following interests:
The targets of the Home Office adverts — vulnerable refugees — will not see them on a TV screen
They will see them on Facebook and Instagram — perhaps while they are messaging their families
This will unquestionably cause them further anxiety and stress
yet it is vanishingly unlikely to affect their decision to cross
While there are some areas in which communications campaigns might be a useful part of government
on their own they can do very little when massive structural forces and obstacles work against them
whether these be the lack of safe and legal routes to the U.K.
the legacies of colonialism and the continuing reality of racism
There are also important questions of democracy here — is it the role of government to shape our behavior from above
Is it appropriate for government and law enforcement to target communities based on highly sensitive characteristics “read off” from invasive surveillance data without them knowing
The choices available to agencies running this kind of campaign leave few unharmful options
Either they target their vulnerable audience in a deeply invasive way
Yet there is next to no awareness that this is going on
When the Home Office placed knife crime ads on boxes of fried chicken in 2019
there was a huge public outcry because the way it was being targeted — stereotyping those who ate fried chicken as knife-carriers — spoke as loudly as the message itself
Yet these digital forms of targeting are far less open to public scrutiny
You shouldn’t need to be a data scientist to find out how the government is spending your money or the mechanisms through which it is trying to change your behavior
there needs to be transparency about who is being targeted by campaigns that are paid for by public money
Only then can our societies have a public discussion about what is and isn’t appropriate
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The Marseille midfield boasted the talents of Dimitri Payet, Andre Ayew and Giannelli Imbula. The 24-year-old Kante wiped the floor with them.
Caen manager Patrice Garande set Kante loose on the callow midfielder
blocking off his passing options and sucking the oxygen from the air around him
Kante created the equaliser for Emiliano Sala and was involved in the build-up to Nicolas Benezet's 87th-minute winner
a journalist for Ouest-France who followed Kante's time at Caen
"A monster," was L'Equipe's verdict
"He strolled between Marseille's lines like a fish through water."
Kante was unaccustomed to the attention he received that night
Journalists he had never met greeted him by name
he bashfully played down talk of Marseille's interest
But the experience of playing beneath the spectacularly sinuous Velodrome roof would remain in his mind
By the time Marseille came calling in the summer
Marseille manager Marcelo Bielsa saw in Kante a player who could infuse his midfield with the relentless forward drive he demands
Bielsa's plan was to pair him with Idrissa Gueye
Kante made more successful tackles (176) and interceptions (106) than any other midfielder in Ligue 1 in 2014-15
Gueye ranked sixth for tackles and third for interceptions
Instead of Kante and Gueye, Marseille settled for the perennially injured Abou Diaby and Lassana Diarra, who had not played for 15 months because of a contract dispute with Lokomotiv Moscow
Five days after Kante's move to Leicester was announced—and just minutes after a 1-0 home defeat by Caen on the opening Saturday of the new campaign—Bielsa walked into the press conference room at the Velodrome
via an interpreter and to row upon row of stunned faces
It was a Sliding Doors moment in the recent history of European football
the most relentless central midfielder in the modern game
and it was Claudio Ranieri who ushered Kante into the limelight in a Leicester team that stunned the world
Kante's parents came to Paris from Mali in 1980 and settled in the Rueil-Malmaison district in the city's western suburbs
Kante grew up with his four brothers and four sisters in a flat on the first floor of a modern apartment building
Talk of a football player emerging from a Parisian banlieue conjures images of looming concrete tower blocks and urban decay
tucked between the folds of the River Seine to the west of the Bois de Boulogne
is a long way from the crime-scarred districts of Paris' north-eastern suburbs
their green foliage trimmed square like the trees on the Champs-Elysees
low-rise apartment buildings crouch between neatly tended municipal areas
The 15-minute walk from the Kante family home on Rue des Geraniums to JS Suresnes
The Suresnes pitches at Stade Maurice Hubert are a booming goal-kick from the Paris Country Club
David Winter for B/RKante made that walk for the first time at the age of 10
He arrived alone for the season's first training session
which took place on the middle of the three pitches used by Suresnes
but back then it was the kind of crumbly red clay surface that you often find at French municipal sports clubs
"We watch all the kids in the first training sessions," says Piotr Wojtyna
a 50-year-old Polish expatriate who became Kante's first coach
"N'Golo jumped out at me straight away with his mobility and his ability to take the ball from other players
What was surprising was that he passed the ball straight away
He wasn't the sort of player who took the ball and tried to dribble past everyone
I put him in the middle of the pitch straight away
It took Wojtyna one training session to realise Kante should be playing with boys a year older
The pattern was repeated in the years that followed
making the final jump to the under-20s at the age of 17
Because he was skipping more than one age group
Kante was obliged to undergo an extensive medical test with a local doctor
A certificate vouching for his physical readiness was sent to the French Football Federation
David Winter for B/RKante's team-mates back then remember a player so preposterously dynamic he was capable of winning matches on his own
a player whose extraordinary physical qualities left his opponents—and team-mates—with no option but to laugh
The club's officials say that even in his late teens
Kante's attachment to the game was almost child-like
Photographs from his early days show Kante looking impossibly tiny in relation to his team-mates
swamped by a succession of giant yellow Suresnes jerseys
and the biggest of them could have carried him in their arms," Wojtyna recalls
jutting out a downturned palm at waist height (he uses the French term petit pouce
which translates as "little thumb")
"He always had his eyes wide-open and a little smile
JS SuresnesKante's father died the following year
Nobody there can recall having met either of his parents
as an older sister typically took responsibility for administrative tasks such as signing registration forms
"Usually we only meet the parents when there are problems with their kids or they're unhappy," Ville says
Ville would drive Kante to trials at professional clubs in the region or take him to the train station for trips to teams further afield. He went west to Rennes and Lorient
as well as south to the National Football Centre at Clairefontaine
"Nobody ever asked me how N'Golo was doing," says Wojtyna
Kante was right on Paris Saint-Germain's doorstep
He failed to make a single regional representative team
Kante suffered from travel sickness and insisted on sitting in the front passenger seat
and Kante played in boots "two centimetres too big," the studs worn down to the soles
the smallest player on the pitch and struggled to assert himself physically amid the sea of elbows bobbing around at head height
"But every time he got the ball," Ville says
it was all about height and physique," says Wojtyna
who has been coaching young players at Suresnes for 19 years
"The [professional] clubs didn't really look at a player's intelligence; it was more their physical
Kante's commitment was irreproachable
but Wojtyna wondered whether his natural timidity might hold him back
and he always respected his opponents and his team-mates," he says
"There were never any problems with him
me and Pierre asked ourselves if he was too nice to become a pro."
David Winter for B/RThe officials at Suresnes did their best to keep their young protege's hopes up
'It's not the moment yet,'" Ville says
it's finished.' We said: 'It's not the right moment
the Suresnes president and a former Olympic 400-metre hurdler
arranged for him to take part in a trial at Boulogne-sur-Mer
whose senior team had just been relegated to Ligue 2
but it is Kante's face that beams down at you from the corkboard above the table football and the walls beside it
David Winter for B/RThere are cuttings from L'Equipe and France Football charting his progress at Caen
along with photographs of his greatest triumphs
There's Kante shielding the ball from James Milner
Here he is outjumping Paul Pogba in an aerial battle
There he is celebrating his first goal for France with Antoine Griezmann
The Kante story at Suresnes has not finished yet
started this season playing as a wide midfielder for the under-19s
"Fatou runs everywhere as well," says Ville with a smile
Kante's move to Leicester in 2015 was worth €240,000 to Suresnes
money they have invested in infrastructure improvements and two new minibuses
It will give them peace of mind for at least the next five years and means they will not have to increase subscription fees
three female—and 985 players registered with the club
They usually send between 40 and 50 children to an annual youth tournament in Belgium
"We always say N'Golo has given us back 100 times over what we gave him," says Ville
David Winter for B/RThe officials at Suresnes are all volunteers and what makes them particularly proud is the extent to which Kante embodies the values the club strives to embody itself: humility
"He hasn't changed," says Wojtyna
He's a very humble boy and he hasn't forgotten where he came from
We could put up a statue of N'Golo here."
The Boulogne trial took place at the club's Stade de la Waroquerie training ground
which sits on the side of a hill overlooking the city
All of the club's coaches were in attendance
Wojtyna says it was Kante's "last chance."
"We arranged a match for potential recruits
and there were lots of people there that day," recalls Gilbert Zoonekynd
then in charge of Boulogne's academy and now head coach at Ligue 2 side Tours
"He stood out because of how active he was
his physical capacities and his ability to change pace
but I'd rarely seen someone who was so involved in the thick of the action and also capable of blistering acceleration
What's his best position?' Because he was everywhere." Kante
US BoulogneBoulogne signed Kante on an amateur contract
Perrinelle was also eager for Kante to continue with his studies
having already obtained his baccalaureat (high school diploma) while he was playing at Suresnes
Kante enrolled on a vocational accounting course at a college in the city centre
As Giraux Sannier did not provide accommodation for its students
Kante stayed across town at Lycee Professionnel Professeur Clerc
It was here that he lived during his first two years in Boulogne
a south-facing dormitory room on the third floor of the college's white and tan residential building
Joining him on the third floor were around 35 other young footballers from Boulogne
plus eight or so players from the local Portel basketball club
The other students at the lycee were studying metalwork or mechanics
Kante would eat his breakfast alongside them in the communal canteen
before hopping on his scooter and trundling across town to Giraux Sannier
In the evenings he would climb the hill to La Waroquerie on his scooter for training sessions at Boulogne before returning for a late meal in the canteen at Professeur Clerc
With a sizeable pack of teenage boys staying in the same building
but Kante kept his head down—quite literally
"It was lights out at 10 o'clock," says Vincent Yvart
an educational supervisor who oversaw Kante's two-year stay at the lycee
"The other staff members and I often had to round up the kids who wouldn't go to bed
but he was always tucked up in bed by 9.30 p.m
He never caused us a single problem."
while his team-mates from the local area returned home to their families
Kante and around 10 other young Boulogne players would often remain in the city
He used to stay at a youth hostel opposite the train station
taking a single bed in a room with one or two other boys
would enjoy prising smiles from him as he padded across the lobby following another excursion on his scooter
"I'm glad it's happened for him," she says with a wide grin
There are few elite-level footballers who were still in full-time education at the age of 21
but having been overlooked by so many professional clubs
Kante could not afford to neglect his studies
"He didn't know then that he'd have the career that he's had," says Nicolas Durand
Kante confided to team-mates that he found some of the work difficult
but he stuck it out and succeeded in obtaining a BTS (brevet de technicien superieur)
Boulogne is France's largest fishing port and sits on the northern coast
gazing across the English Channel towards Dungeness
It is a place of sea breezes and screeching seagulls
but they are most famous for having launched the career of local boy Franck Ribery
The east stand of Boulogne's Stade de la Liberation carries his name
is accessed via steep streets bordered by tightly stacked terraced houses
David Winter for B/RWith the first team reacclimatising to life in the second tier
Kante went into the academy and played for the reserves in the Division d'Honneur
who struggled with injuries and the jarring reality of finding himself far from home for the first time
As team-mate Eric Vandenabeele recalls: "Tactically
Zoonekynd says he became a key player in the reserve team "practically instantly."
occasionally roomed with Kante and remembers him asking if it was OK for him to pray
He's a Muslim and he does his prayers and all that," Vandenabeele says
Sometimes I'd take him to training in my car
We'd be driving for 10 minutes and he wouldn't say a word
He'd just say 'thank you' at the end!"
They would play FIFA and watch Europa League games together on Thursdays prior to matches on Friday nights
"You'll be playing in this one day," Vandenabeele would say
David Winter for B/RZoonekynd recalls "a slightly delicate period during Ramadan one year
It was in the middle of the summer and we were training twice a day
you might as well go home.' So we sent him home for the whole period and he came back after
And his levels were exactly the same as before."
The mosque in Boulogne sits on the city's northern periphery. A grey, two-storey residential property, it is the last building you pass as you leave the city on the road towards Calais
Kante was a regular visitor with his team-mate Harouna Abou Demba
With Boulogne battling to avoid relegation from Ligue 2 in the 2011-12 season
he didn't think it was the right time to throw in an untested youngster
It was not until Boulogne succumbed to relegation that Kante finally got his first taste of professional football
and Boulogne were playing their final game of the season at home to Monaco
The game was chiefly memorable for the fact the decisive goal was scored by the Monaco goalkeeper
Kante was warming up with two of his team-mates beside the goal in front of the near-empty Kop Boulonnais as Subasic steered a free-kick into the bottom-left corner from just inside the D at the top of the penalty box
He replaced right-winger Virgile Reset for the game's last 11 minutes
Boulogne's demotion to the third-tier National—their second relegation in three seasons—was to prove a major turning point in Kante's career
immediately installed Kante in the first team
"He really exploded in the National," remembers Zoonekynd
maybe he wouldn't have had his chance so quickly
It could have been a blessing in disguise."
Kante scored his first goal in professional football to give Boulogne a 1-0 victory over Luzenac in their first home game of the 2012-13 season
following up on a rebound to score from close range in the seventh minute
many of whom were watching him for the first time
asked him if he modelled himself on Claude Makelele
Marseille would sign Diarra as a back-up option after missing out on Kante
Deployed as one of the lateral midfielders in a 4-3-3 system
Kante excelled and would go on to feature in all but one of Boulogne's 38 league games as they finished 13th
Rennes took another look at him and decided he still wasn't ready
Lille thought about signing him and loaning him out to Belgian club Mouscron
Jean-Pierre Perrinelle had taken his career in hand once again
Perrinelle at the end of August 2012," remembers Alain Caveglia
very good player at Boulogne.' I thought
'OK.' There are lots of people who call us to say they've found a little gem
"Then in September he called me for a second time to say
You have to come and see him.' So I sent someone to watch him play
Then I sent a second person to watch him play and the second person said
there's really something in this player.' So in November I went to watch him play and you saw straight away that he had extraordinary qualities."
The journey along the northern French coast from Caen to Boulogne is a round trip of some six hours by car
"I only watched him once," he says
David Winter for B/RAs word of Kante's ability spread
There was interest from other teams in the region
as well as clubs across the border in Belgium
Kante signed a pre-contract agreement with them in January 2013
His new club had spent the previous 10 seasons yo-yoing between Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 and had a squad full of top-flight experience
Kante found himself sharing a changing room with former France and Paris Saint-Germain midfielder Jerome Rothen
one of several players accustomed to playing at the highest level
everyone loved him," remembers Caveglia
who made his name as a prolific striker with Sochaux
"It was as if everyone wanted to protect him
who was loved by everyone like that."
Kante moved into an apartment close to Caen's stadium
Caveglia recalls him arriving for training in a Renault Megane "with 90,000 kilometres on the clock." In a carryover from his student days
He played in every game as Caen secured promotion to Ligue 1 by finishing third and was named in the Ligue 2 Team of the Season
Perrinelle would never see Kante play in the top flight
Kante had received assistance from various people during the early years of his career
it was Perrinelle whose hand was at his back
the guy who put it in the pipeline was Jean-Pierre Perrinelle," says Pierre Ville
Kante looked like a man in a hurry when his first season as a Ligue 1 player came around
He scored two goals in his first three games—slickly taken openers in away wins over Evian and Reims—but was sent off in a 1-0 home defeat by Rennes
collecting two bookings in the first 29 minutes for a pair of rash sliding challenges
The match he sat out through suspension would be the only game he missed all season
Garande played him as one of the two advanced central midfielders in a 4-1-4-1 formation
with the experienced Nicolas Seube sitting in front of the back four and the elegant Julien Feret alongside him
It was a system that suited him even better than the two-man midfields he has played in at Leicester and Chelsea
the security provided by Seube enabling him to play his natural
hyperaggressive pressing game without worrying about leaving space behind him
The only thing missing from his game was goals. After scoring at Reims in August 2014, he would have to wait until Leicester's 2-1 home win over Watford in November 2015 to find the net again
Leicester's head of recruitment and assistant manager
But while manager Nigel Pearson had given Walsh the green light to go for Kante
but his size remained an issue for the Italian
general manager Xavier Gravelaine describing the €5 million bid as "a lack of respect towards Caen and N'Golo Kante."
to sign up with Etienne Mendy and Pierre Frelot at sports agency XL Sport in the hope they would help him seal a move to OM
But Leicester were prepared to pay €8 million for him and they had Gravelaine's ear
"I had friends in France bring him over
His primary agent didn't even know he was there."
he was unsure about how to fit him into the team
In his first appearances in Leicester blue
Kante found himself being used as a wide midfielder
a position he had last occupied during his final season at Suresnes
But after testing him out in central midfield
Ranieri came to his senses and just as at Suresnes
By the time of Manchester United's visit in late November 2015
Ranieri had discovered the team that would win the title
Kante anchoring the midfield alongside Danny Drinkwater
"We always play three in midfield—Drinkwater in the middle
The milestones have been flashing by ever since
March 2016: France debut and first international goal
He has just been voted England's PFA Players' Player of the Season
Another Premier League title beckons and with it the promise of a first taste of Champions League football
Ville tells a story about Kante turning up alone and unannounced at a hospital to visit the sick son of a friend
He has kept in touch with all his former clubs
"You don't find people like that every day," says Caveglia
"It was just a pleasure to have someone like that with us for two years
When he started to attract attention in France
I said: 'I don't know how far he can go.' And I don't think he's finished yet."
The surface immediately beside the canal is paved with modern
smooth cobblestones that are easy enough to skate on but there are also cycle paths running the length of the water for those who’d rather not struggle
During the summer the quays are transformed into the Paris Plage
making the paths essential for going quicker than a snail’s pace
Bassin de la Villette │ | © Myrabella / Wikimedia Commons
The area is particularly popular with skaters (and runners and cyclists) on Sundays when the roads are closed to traffic
the surface is a mixture of cobbles and concrete
Canal Saint-Martin │ | © Guilhem Vellut / Wikimedia Commons
Pont Alexandre III and banks of the Seine │ | © Guilhem Vellut / Wikimedia Commons
the surface is a mix of poured concrete and old and new cobbling
There are also sidewalks up on the road level
Île de la Cité │ | © Joe deSousa / Wikimedia Commons
Islands of the Seine │ | © Myrabella / Wikimedia Commons
Route 6: North of the Bois de Boulogne The Bois de Boulogne is where the glamorous inhabitants of the 16th arrondissement escape to for a taste of the countryside (when they can’t be bothered being driven to their country houses, obviously). The northern section of the park is the most developed, featuring the Fondation Louis Vuitton
a contemporary art gallery launched by the high fashion brand
The major pathways are concreted and it’s possible to expand this four-kilometer route by off-roading through the forest
it’s probably best to only attempt this during dry spells
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Bois de Boulogne │ | © Elekes Andor / Wikimedia Commons
Lac Inférieur in the Bois de Boulogne │ | © BikerNormand / Wikimedia Commons
Route 8: Promenade Plantée The Promenade Plantée paved the way
for other raised urban gardens like the High Line in Chelsea
It’s a favorite place for local strollers and runners but mercifully undiscovered by the city’s tourist hordes
A single-direction skate will take about 40 minutes (the Line 8 on the metro will take you back to Bastille) and a return leg will bring the total journey to a very respectable six kilometers
If you are looking for even more of a workout
then you can join this route up with the next one on our list…
Promenade Planté │ | © Guilhem Vellut / Wikimedia Commons
but you can still rent a boat if you want to give your feet a rest and arms a workout
Lac Daumesnil at the Bois de Vincennes │ | © Georges Seguin / Wikimedia Commons
Route 10: Parc André Citroën and the Petite Ceinture This route in the little-explored southwest of Paris takes you around the fountains, pools, and landscaped borders of the Parc André Citroën and the more naturalistic trail of the Petite Ceinture
a stretch of a long-abandoned railway line that has opened up as a rival to the Promenade Plantée
You could easily add on a few kilometers to the 50-minute route by investigating the many different areas of the park
Be warned that between it and the Petite Ceinture there are short sections where’ll you’ll need to navigate Parisian traffic
Parc André Citroën │ | © Guilhem Vellut / Flickr
it is extremely popular with runners (it’s exactly one kilometer around the perimeter which is great for training) so try not to get in their way or you will be trampled
Parc Monceau │ | © BikerNormand / Flickr
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À cette époque-ci de l'année
manger un bout au soleil en regardant les gens passer
Alors on partage avec vous 10 endroits où il fait bon se poser pour pique-niquer en toute tranquillité.
Une publication partagée par Paris la douce (@paris.la.douce)
Rue des Barres – 4e
Le soleil et l'été s'installent doucement mais sûrement dans notre chère capitale. Alors pour échapper à la chaleur étouffante tout en se prélassant, direction le bord du canal de l'Ourcq. En plus, on peut digérer en faisant une petite partie de pétanque
Une publication partagée par 🔸Le Pavillon des Canaux🔸 (@lepavillondescanaux) le 11 Oct
Un espace public totalement dédié à la détente où l'on se rend volontiers avec un p’tit pack
ou des légumes croquants et du tzatziki
L'un des spots parfaits où pique-niquer à plusieurs !
Une publication partagée par cathynguyen_._ (@cathynguyen_._)
Dans le bas du Marais, voilà une place où l'on ADORE se poser. Passez chez le poissonnier vous prendre quelques huîtres
écoutez le chant des oiseaux et observez la vie de quartier
Une publication partagée par @aurelia_lbc le 16 Avril 2020 à 11 :02 PDT
La place est typique de l'ancien petit village de Montmartre. Le nom fut également donné à une guinguette qui se situait au même endroit sous l'Empire
dont l'attraction particulière était de dîner sur une table dans l'arbre
On y profite d'une superbe vue et des artistes de rue
Une publication partagée par Mollie Kuenster (@mileinmymoccasins) le 4 Nov
On profite du quartier Mouffetard pour se poser près de la fontaine en toute quiétude
c'est que le voisinage est pleiiiin de bonnes petites choses à emporter
pour les crêpes et galettes du P'tit Grec
Une publication partagée par Paris la douce (@paris.la.douce)
Idéal lorsqu'on veut définitivement se couper de la capitale ! On rassemble une bonne bande de potes, on prend une petite enceinte et c'est parti pour un apéro parisien déconnecté des tracas du quotidien
Une publication partagée par Béa (@bea75012) le 20 Mai 2020 à 7 :08 PDT
Ils sont là, dans les branchages du parc de Bagatelle ou au pied de la grande cascade du bois de Boulogne
Leurs yeux perçants observant les passants ; un gang de 150 chats a investi l'étendue boisée du 16e il y a quelques années maintenant
Un bon spot où pique-niquer et les observer
Une publication partagée par Lisa Dagonet (@lisadagonet) le 20 Mai 2020 à 9 :02 PDT
la place Sainte-Marthe dégage une agréable atmosphère de quiétude
Ses arbres majestueux et réverbères romantiques en font un cadre idéal pour boire une bonne boutanche et grignoter les produits que l'on aura achetés le matin au marché
Une publication partagée par Le petit Paris de Velvet (@lepetitparisdevelvet) le 12 Août 2017 à 12 :22 PDT
Place Sainte-Marthe – 10e
Il faut traverser l'un des plus beaux passages de Paris pour tomber sur la place Goldoni
nichée à quelques emjambées de l'agitation du quartier animé de Montorgueil
Un lieu agréable pour manger un bout et respirer un coup
On se délecte d'une série de bons produits achetés dans la rimbambelle de commerces de bouche que propose le quartier
Pour ceux qui ont un budget un peu plus gonflé
foncez vous chercher un bon petit plat à emporter chez Frenchie
Une publication partagée par ✨Bijoux accessoires à Paris✨ (@2plumes)
Une étendue de sable fin en forêt où aller chiller
Déconfinement : le canal Saint-Martin bondé
Rachel Thomas
© Paul ChesleyPour préparer sa peau en douceur et se faire une cure de vitamine D (efficace contre le Covid)
de la moindre parcelle ensoleillée que Paris nous offre
Et comme on n'a pas tous la chance d’avoir un balcon ou une terrasse
on est condamnés à investir les jardins et parc publiques
Mais où poser son petit coin de serviette en toute tranquillité
c’est un petit havre de paix et de calme coincé entre trois hôtels particuliers
Il est depuis 2014 doté d’un jardin intime qu’on vous demandera de garder pour vous… Ici
vous pouvez enfiler votre haut de maillot sans avoir peur d’être observée
rue des Francs-Bourgeois - 4e Tous les jours de 8h à 19h (9h le week-end)
Traverser Paris vaut parfois vraiment le coup
surtout quand on découvre la beauté et le cadre bucolique des jardins de Bagatelle dans le bois de Boulogne
Quoi de mieux pour se dorer la pilule
©ohmiparis
route de Sèvres À Neuilly - 16e
le mieux est de se caler près d’un point d’eau
les berges du lac sont parfaites pour faire bronzette avec des coins ombragés si le soleil tape trop fort
Vous pouvez même louer une barque pour bronzer les pieds dans l’eau
©misterbank94
Ce grand jardin imaginé par un banquier philanthrope réunit divers univers : jardin anglais
Vous pouvez également faire un petit saut au Musée de photo anthropologique.
©jeremy_volant
Ne râlez pas les habitants de Rive Droite
Si vous voulez éviter la foule et trouver plus d’un m2 d’espace libre dans Paris
profitez de l’immense pelouse qu’offre ce parc
Mais si vous voulez être plus tranquille
éloignez-vous du terre-plein central du côté de la rue Balard
où l’on trouve quelques carrés de pelouse cachés par des murs
©lunae06
vous pourrez vous adonner aux joies du transat' mais aussi à la lecture
au ciné ou encore aller faire un petit tour au café éphémère
Le béton du canal Saint-Martin est pratique pour les apéros
mais n’est pas super confortable pour faire rougir ses gambettes
vous voulez avoir un beau teint : allez au jardin Villemin
©deborahmoreau
Il suffit d’escalader ses nombreuses marches en partant du bas pour découvrir que le parc Belleville offre de nombreux recoins à l’abri des regards
Le petit plus quand le soleil commence à tomber
La vue imprenable sur la capitale tout en haut
©mirysommy
En vous baladant dans le vaste parc de la Villette
vous n'aurez aucun mal à trouver un spot bronzette sans passer pour un exhibitionniste ou vous prendre un ballon en pleine tête
Le parc regorge de coins cachés et même de jardins passagers où s'allonger sans se mouiller.
©xxxaurel
un confort inestimable pour ceux qui cherchent encore à se dorer la pilule sans se salir : des fauteuils en libre service
Voici pourquoi les prix de l’immobilier baissent (encore) à Paris
Manon Merrien-Joly
© Kévin Trublet / FlickrModifier articleOKSalut les boulistes
À chaque début d'été, les aoûtiens qui sont encore au bureau et ne voient le jour qu'à partir de 18h développent une curieuse habitude une fois la journée de travail terminée
Ils empoignent le pack de boules (ou le mölkky) sous un bras
et les voilà partis pour une partie endiablée
Voici en exclusivité les meilleurs terrains de la ville pour tirer
Bien loin des lieux sélect de la capitale
immense lieu de vie du 11e arrondissement a pour ambition de rassembler
et vous invite à squatter les canaps et le bar à bières au sourcing impeccable : on y trouve notamment des bières pantinoises Gallia et d'autres issues de la brasserie Vaucelles située près de Cambrai
spécialisée en bière d'abbaye
qui vous rendront à coup sûr meilleur.e à la pétanque
le lieu passe en mode club pour vous faire danser jusqu'au bout de la nuit.
Une publication partagée par Fitzroy Paris (@fitzroyparis_)
Le Fitzroy49, rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine - 11ePlus d'infos
Le plus hippique : Le Petit Pré
Une publication partagée par Jean Cointre (@yakoa_jean) le 30 Juin 2018 à 11 :57 PDT
2, route des Tribunes – 16e
Pour la deuxième année consécutive,la méga terrasse de 1000 m2 de Papa Cabane revient dans le 12e
elle propose dès 18h des jeux (pétanque
ping-pong et baby-foot) pour montrer aux potes qui est le patron
vous aurez le choix entre les tacos de Bocamexa
les chaussons de Patuco ou encore les hot-dogs de Dad.
Une publication partagée par Nono Run (@elleonrun) le 24 Juil
Rue Paul-Belmondo – 12e
Après une séance de natation dans le bassin de la Villette, on part se sécher, serviette sur les épaules et boules à la main, à Paris Plages. Bronzage, déconnade et nouveaux potes en perspective. Il y aussi plein d'autres trucs cool à y faire, et on vous donne des idées dans cet article
Une publication partagée par Paris (@paris_maville) le 22 Août 2016 à 5 :01 PDT
et le terrain se trouve juste en face du bar
On consomme sa bière tout en pointant le cochonnet. C'est le lieu parfait pour les boulistes qui viennent..
il n'y a qu'à laisser sa carte d'identité
68, quai de la Loire – 19e
Direction Montmartre pour une partie de pur plaisir
Après avoir échappé aux touristes et autres groupes d'étrangers
Une pinte de bière plus tard et le square Suzanne Buisson vous attend. Tranquillité et air pur pour une partie en haute sphère
Une publication partagée par Axelle â° (@achoukellou) le 12 Juin 2016 à 7 :42 PDT
7 bis, rue Girardon – 18e
Les vieux de la vieille sont des habitués de ce square
Vous pourrez donc demander conseil au groupe de sexagénaires qui hantent les terrains depuis des années
Et pour réconforter celles qui auraient laissé tomber la boule sur leurs doigts de pieds vernis
les magasins de la rue du Commerce les attendent
Une publication partagée par Ludovic Locoche (@vanlococh) le 26 Mai 2018 à 4 :53 PDT
2, rue Jean Formigé – 15e
Chanté par Barbara dans Perlimpinpin
ce cadre merveilleux est devenu un site incontournable de la pétanque parisienne
Véritable jardin à l'anglaise
les cygnes y côtoient les promeneurs
Le club de pétanque des Batignolles organise régulièrement des tournois
Une publication partagée par Rhoda Thewaves (@rhodathewaves) le 14 Mai 2018 à 6 :48 PDT
144 bis, rue Cardinet – 17e
qui nous a été chuchoté timidement
est une pépite pour les introvertis du cochonnet
Le terrain du bonheur est caché au cœur de la rue des Thermopyles
personne pour nous déranger. » Essayez de garder le secret..
Une publication partagée par FR Soizic (@soizon_) le 15 Juil
Rue des Thermopyles – 14e
C'est l'endroit multifonction par excellence qu'on ne quitte plus
on profite de leurs quais le long de la voie ferrée pour jouer aux boules ou au Mölkky
Une publication partagée par Gin La Berlinette (@xtaticgirl) le 17 Juil
83, boulevard Ornano – 18e
grande tablée en bois pour une ambiance chaleureuse et terrain de pétanque au sous-sol... On dirait le Sud
Une publication partagée par La Famille Les Niçois (@lesnicois) le 1 Févr
7, rue Lacharrière – 11e
Niché entre la Gaîté lyrique et le Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers
offre un terrain de pétanque très prisé des habitants du quartier. On est comme à la maison dans ce petit square
il y a même un vestiaire pour poser votre barda
Parfait pour une partie de boules en amoureux
Une publication partagée par Le Bonbon (@le_bonbon) le 7 Sept
98 bis, boulevard de Sébastopol – 3e
Le gladiateur moderne des Arènes de la capitale
qui vient armé de tes globes de fer ou d'inox
à la quête de la gloire du cochonnet ; viens défendre ta vie et ton honneur à la tire et à la pointe
Rue des Arènes / Rue de Navarre / Rue Monge – 5e
Le temps d'une petite partie de pétanque posé au bord de l'eau
on déconnecte un peu de la ville dans ces jardins verdoyants en terrasse
Une publication partagée par Thuy-lien (@thuy_lien_tran) le 27 Août 2017 à 9 :45 PDT
11, boulevard de la Bastille – 12e
un peu moins à l'heure de pointe (comprenez à la sortie du bureau vers 19h)
Préférez l'heure de la sieste
quitte à décaler la vôtre après deux ou trois Ricard
Une publication partagée par julescdm (@julescdm) le 26 Avril 2017 à 4 :20 PDT
0, avenue Trudaine – 9e
Si Les Invincibles vous foutent encore des frissons à l'heure qu'il est
c'est là qu'il faut aller pour retrouver l'adrénaline qui vous portera vers la victoire
Une publication partagée par Estelle Sallé âÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ
â (@estellesalle) le 16 Nov
68, boulevard Poniatowski – 12e
Sachez que les bois de Vincennes et de Boulogne sont des lieux historiques pour jouer aux boules
ils permettent de ne pas être collé à une autre bande de joueurs
et ça rajoute un côté sauvage pas déplaisant
Une publication partagée par HLN (@helene__sg) le 9 Juil
Bois de Boulogne – 16eBois de Vincennes, route de la Pyramide – 12e
Derrière ce nom compliqué se cache un résistant français et le fondateur de Publicis
c'est aussi un square derrière le Sacré-Cœur où vous avez l'assurance d'être tranquille
Une publication partagée par Jeraldine Mendoza (@jeraldm) le 29 Juin 2018 à 1 :12 PDT
Rue de la Bonne – 18e
Sous l'égide d'un grand poète
venez tirer et pointer sur cette charmante place de la Butte-aux-Cailles
un refuge dominical bienvenu alors que les beaux jours avancent
Une publication partagée par LeJeuneMusical (@daphnetiphaine) le 14 Nov
Place Paul Verlaine – 13e
En plein centre de Paris se trouve un chouette terrain
On murmure que dans les années 1640
le jeune Louis XIV y visait déjà le cochonnet
Info ou intox ? À vérifier sur place. S'il est pris
vous pouvez toujours vous rabattre sur le jardin des Halles
Une publication partagée par frederic64 (@frederic06400) le 18 Juil
6, rue de Montpensier – 1er
La particularité de ce terrain-là
c'est que le club le Bâton Mouche y organise régulièrement des événements
L'occasion de vous faire de nouveaux amis partageant votre passion pour la quille finlandaise
Une publication partagée par mrs_landscape (@mrs_landscape) le 17 Juil
Carré des Sangliers – 1er
ce terrain est tout près d'un autre
dans un square rue du Figuier. La bonne occase si vous aimez vous balader dans le quartier
Une publication partagée par Famory (@famory_dmb) le 26 Oct
9, rue Charlemagne - 4e
Vous en voulez encore ? Il est toujours temps de vous inscrire au prochain tournoi de Pétanque Sur Seine (tout est dans le titre) qui aura lieu le 26 juillet
un tournoi de pétanque gratos s’installe sur un rooftop parisien