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Lilac time in Jardin Botanique of Nancy
Time has gone so quickly, and lilac time too. I wanted to write this article much earlier but, well, I have done something else. I have also waited for a better weather as, this year, Lorraine's spring has been particularly wet. We have had summer time,...
In Jardin Botanique of Nancy
The well-known Jardin Botanique du Montet is now called Jardin Botanique Jean-Marie Pelt, from the name of a botanist and ecologist who recently died in Lorraine. We like walking there as it is always peaceful even if it is near very busy parts of Nancy...
The new conference center in Nancy
The new conference center of Nancy, called Centre de Congrès Prouvé, opened last summer. In 2007, several architects were asked to propose a draft for the construction of this new building where the former mail distribution center used to be, just near...
Wood shop window by Vallin in Nancy
When we left Place Stanislas last week, we walked in rue des Dominicains to look at shop windows and, nearly straight away, I saw the old Goudchaux shop, which is not Goudchaux any more but a bank. I am sure I have walked in front of this building quite...
Ephemeral garden about WW1 on Place Stanislas
This year the subject of the ephemeral garden on Place Stanislas in Nancy is 1914, paysage fortifié (1914, fortified landscape). I wondered what can be done with plants to describe a war. So, last week, we discovered different patches, each one with a...