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PARIS Alain Resnais,

A further visit to the city of light. January 2011. As part of the meeting of the Alliance Française the world, went to Paris, the director Laetitia Mathieu, Nadège Picod cultural coordinator and myself as chairman. The meeting takes place at headquarters and brings together over 500 people coming from Africa, Asia, America and Oceania, as well as a large number of representatives of this institution in several European countries. On this occasion The trip was almost straight with a short stop in Madrid to reach Orly then, a major Paris airports (just in those days there were problems with the neighbors by the intense noise produced some planes taking off or landing). Our hotel was near the Republic Square and the fabulous metro system will simplify the large distances that exist in this city, in fact, a Parisian spends many hours of their daily lives in the Parisian underground, above the city move between cars, in the physical underworld, human rivers move between their runners to reach their destinations. The rush hour is one of the most fascinating specimens of migratory creatures that move from side to side, absorbed in their ideas and concerns. There is a standardization of human isolation: cell phones, which use every moment to be more detached from their surroundings. That kind of homogenization of stupidity is not a community property, is generational. People, especially young people, are caught up listening to his music, talking through their screens or simply playing with his little machines. In a way, was a kind of blessing not have had a cell there, since it gives you more time to observe everything in detail. This actually saw a little less in the metro of Toulouse and Barcelona as well.


The first active day in Paris became a sort of personal searches both Laetitia and me: camera arrays, buying shoes for problems, buy an umbrella for the rains. This allowed me to see a world that usually do not visit as a tourist attraction, but are also being amazing: the world of department store shopping. For this we turn to one of the most beautiful in the old Paris, the Quartier Haussmann, the architect who did the Paris of the boulevards and buildings uniform in height and beautiful image. So we went to Laetitia sniffing around in some stores. As most of Europe, the crisis of recent times has hit the pockets of consumers and sales department stores, then engaged in making permanent auction, which you see throughout France and in Barcelona it is much more, because the crisis is more pronounced in the latter city. Despite this, the Parisian department stores no longer be a gift to the eye for the exquisite decoration with the building of these beautiful buildings made expressly for these purposes and freedom in which a buyer moves along the same stores , which touch the products, choose, compare, discriminate, or just leave it. All an interesting ritual consumption in beautiful surroundings. After some shopping done on time, pass by the Opera House, a building that is in the neighborhood

We went to our inaugural meeting. This was by Frédéric Mitterrand , Minister of Culture and Communication, and Abdou Diouf , Secretary General of the International Organization of la Francophonie. More than 500 people packed the place, from all over the world. Having finished the day we were all invited to the palace Quai d'Orsay, the Foreign Ministry, to be received by the minister of that portfolio, Michelle Alliot-Marie , who gave us a speech about the decisions that French government plan to take in its foreign policy, including herself, directly or indirectly the Alliance Française. Our institution is important to affirm France's presence in our community. Then we went to dinner at a restaurant that was in Place de la République, in the restaurants one can see why French cooking has been appointed as spiritual and intangible heritage of humanity. Not by bread alone does man live, there are those soufflés, sausages, cheeses, seafood, soups, etc.. So many words for dishes or cooking processes created in the French culinary world. The second day we had a new management and make the session as a guest had a great comedian, sadly part of his speech focused on current government policies, which was shredded by his keen insights, but most of the jokes took as its starting point a reality that was quite unknown to many of those present were very everyday matters (something like our congressmen know washing feet, Mataperros or other variations of our original political circus). That day, the Alliance Française de Lima made his presentation. It is, to the astonishment of all, the Alliance Française the world's largest and presented to the entire international community. To close our business plan, it made a great cocktail at the wonderful Musée Guimet, which contains an impressive collection of art from the Far East.

El miércoles concluyeron las actividades de la Alianza, para lo cual se organizó un viaje al palacio de Versalles. Lluvia. Ese miércoles fue un día lluvioso. Pese a eso y algunos problemas de movilidad, logramos irnos a Versalles. Visita genial, como nunca. Versalles es grande, muy grande. Había visto algunas películas en las que se mostraban sus instalaciones. Pero sus dimensiones son colosales. Y era EL palacio en torno al cual vivía una población de cortesanos, nobles y otros que rendían pleitesía a la familia imperial. Hubo casi 10 mil personas que se ocupaban de cientos de detalles y protocolos para poder “sobrevivir” a la vida cortesana. Ese día we could only see the Court of Honor, the Court of Marble, North Wing of the Ministers and the North Wing, where we saw the impressive royal chapel with a real semiotic interesting. Palace life was governed by several rules that allowed each placed in the social scale around the king, the mean proximity favors and privileges, these people cared for their kings and queens in all that is needed in everyday life from getting up to sleep, besides eating, toileting, and other fun things in our daily discourse. The king had no inner life whatsoever and were characters who were exposed constantly to the people, the locations was in the palace was to be observed and all this was accompanied by an interesting semiology of power is everywhere in the palace. In most places it was, it was put symbols strategically so that it recognized the authority of a divine nature and omnipresent. Our guide turned out to be an expert on these issues and gave us detailed explanations about the history and intricacies that crossed the palace. Also asked about the film Marie Antoinette Sophie Coppola and told us about the many irregularities that the film shows the eighteenth-century French courtesan. This visit was lucky to match, albeit with an impressive exhibition development of science promoted in the palace. As the first military and economic power in the eighteenth century and full development of the Enlightenment, Versailles was the setting and the perfect place not only to support the arts, but for science and technology. All economic and military power as he knows, investing in education and research to ensure their political and were aware that the French kings, especially Louis XV. And the exhibition had the opportunity to see was well fitted and amazed to see the progress of hydraulics, astronomy, optics and other fields of physics. Unfortunately the visit did in a hurry, since we had little time to see her and we had lunch with parsimony, good food and good conversation in the nearby gardens (green carpets as they are called in French) to sources of Latona. The return was uneventful, arrived at headquarters, I took the subway (a marvel of transportation that all cities should be thinking about installing it) and went to the hotel to rest. It had been a tiring day and the body wanted to rest. But it helped me to catch up on world events: the Tunisian, what was happening in Egypt (awesome). Also interesting thing that is the culinary world of Paris and the market presence of large stores where chefs will "of hunt "to new flavors and textures. One product that was introduced by some waiters was olluco Peru. Interesting.

My last day in Paris was spent arranging some papers, getting rid of useless papers and preparing for my trip continued to the south of France and Barcelona. Laetitia went to the airport to go see their families. I left by train at night to Rodez, I had the afternoon to do something else. In addition he had not seen Távara Vania, our former Steering Committee member and currently studying in France with a scholarship, and he suggested going to visit one of the most traditional Paris: Père Lachaise Cemetery. We took the metro (I still think it's a wonder) and we reached our destination. We entered the small door in search Des Amandiers of graves and mausoleums of the famous buried here. As a public cemetery, are buried thousands of Frenchmen and foreigners without distinction of race or religion. It is now common to see graves of Vietnamese and Chinese residents buried their custom. But see tombs with stars of David, or Muslim crescent representing the ancient mausoleums Orthodox churches. In the course of nearly three hours we saw the graves of Honore de Balzac , Miguel Angel Asturias, Oscar Wilde, Frederic Chopin and Jim Morrison. But buried in the cemetery are also great characters like Apollinaire, Beacaud Gilbert, Sarah Bernhard, Bizet, Cherubini, Colette, Auguste Comte, Corot, Daumier, Delacroix, Eluard, Heloise and Abelard , Méliès, Merleau-Ponty , Modigliani, Molière, Edith Piaf, Pissaro, Proust, Seurat , among others. Columbaria are some bodies that have been taken as Rossini and Bellini or ashes scattered as those of Maria Callas . A whole host of immortal men and women for the human spirit, but have found a break to their bodies. Visited the graves, which impressed me was that of Wilde, whose tombstone is huge kisses and signatures of hundreds of fans who come here as pilgrimage. Another of the most moving places is the simple tomb of Morrison, even ugly, but always with flowers. The tree is near the headquarters of tombs has several sheets of paper with lyrics to his songs and poems dedicated to his name, some have carved into its bark. When we had a couple and two girls, some with headphones to listen to the music of The Doors. To me came to my mind Raiders on the Storm. Although one might be identified as almost a necrophiliac, this place attracts respect and keep hundreds of visitors who use it as a pilgrimage, one of the many places of culture of this wonderful city. Paris is worth a mass.

To close my visit to the city, return al'Île de la Cité to see the old Paris. Last year he had visited with Olivier, now went to Vania and Patricia de la Vega, a former student who now resides in Paris happily married. They took me to see its old churches and the Latin Quarter, near the Island of the City, mostly to see St. Michel.

already back to my hotel, had dinner around the area with Vania to say goodbye, as my train left Rodez Austerlitz station. So I left Paris on a cold night and a little rain.