« HOKUSAI (1760-1849). MASTERPIECES OF THE SHELL HOKUSAI-KAN MUSEUM » Organized and presented at the Château des ducs de Bretagne - Nantes History Museum, from June 28, 2025 to September 7, 2025

One ​​of the greatest Japanese artists , Hokousai, the genius of the Northern constellation. An anecdote about his works and the painter Claude Monet... His profession of faith, written at the age of 75, deserves reflection.

And the auction of one of his paintings, "Promeneur flânent" for 1,550 francs as part of the sale of the Haviland collection, the fifteenth sale of this estate.

The Haviland family and Limoges porcelain.

For travelers Hokusai Museum at 485 Obuse, 小布施町 Obuse, Kamitakai District, Nagano 381-0201, Japan

« JOURNEY TO THE BEST! CHAMPAGNE PENNSYLVANIA IN THE TIME OF THE COUNTS" presented at the Cité du Vitrail, Hôtel-Dieu-le-Comte, Troyes, from May 4, 2026 to October 31, 2026.

« PEKKA HALONEN. A HYMN TO FINLAND » presented at the Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, from September 16, 2025 to January 25, 2026.

Pekka Halonen, Finnish painter

" THE EMPIRE OF SLEEP" organized and presented at the Musée Marmottan-Monet, Paris, from October 9, 2025 to March 1 2026

« OTOBONG NKANGA. I DREAMT OF YOU IN COLOURS » presented at the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, from October 10, 2025 to February 22, 2026

Featuring: In Pursuit of Bling, 2014, installation: 30 tables (metal structure), 2 wool hangings (La découverte/La transformation), photographs and texts printed on Galala limestone slabs, concrete slabs laminated with minerals, mineral levitation modules, monitors and single-channel HD videos with sound, (In Pursuit of Bling [11'59], Reflections on the Raw Green Crown [2'52], light table with archival images inkjet printed on Plexiglas, micanite, copper, malachite and makeup powder; variable dimensions (445 × 470 cm on the floor, H.: 245 cm); inv.: 2016.1.0086(1-33), belonging to the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

"TATTOOS. STORIES OF THE MEDITERRANEAN" presented at the Centre de la Vieille Charité, Marseille, from May 17, 2025 to September 28, 2025

• Featuring in particular: Italy, Agrigento, attributed to the Painter of Pan; Column Krater: Thracian Woman Running; circa 415-425 BC; Attic red-figure pottery; H. 34.5 cm; inv.: SH 2378 WAF;

• Southern Italy, attributed to the Phiale Painter; Neck Amphora: The Death of Orpheus; circa 445-440 BC; Attic red-figure pottery; H. 32.4 cm; inv.: SH 2330 WAF;

Belonging to the State Antique Collections and Glyptothek, Munich, Germany

" GEORGES DE LA TOUR" presented at the Jacquemart-André Museum, Paris, from September 11, 2025 to January 25 2026

Museum of France:

Order of April 14, 2025 setting the fees for admission and services provided by the National Customs Museum

Examples: In the context of a private opening of the National Customs Museum and the inner courtyard, the prices for the services provided are as follows: :

• Private tour led by museum staff: €100 to €300 depending on the type of tour and the number of participants;
• Use of museum premises: €750 to €3,000 per day depending on the nature and duration of the visit;
• Use of the inner courtyard for private events, coordinated by the National Customs Museum: €500 to €10,000 depending on the nature and duration of the visit.
• Use fees for documents, engravings, images, visuals, or other media range from €25 to €500.
• And for shopping? Between €0.50 and €100.

Small or large increase? Prices five years ago

The National Customs Museum, which reopens on May 16 after closing for renovations in December 2023, in order to "offer the public a renewed visitor experience, thanks to a modern and educational scenography" at a cost of 680,000 euros

National Customs Museum

Order of April 9, 2025 authorizing the amicable transfer of the state-owned real estate complex known as the Cité administrative de Toulouse, located at 4, rue de la Cité-Administrative; 10 bis, rue Lascrosses; 17 bis 17 ter, boulevard Lascrosses; 44, boulevard Armand-Duportal in Toulouse (31)

The Administrative City and its 1,600 employees, which moved last February and is not Only happy people: The precarious situation of 13 cleaning women left behind after the administration's move"We have neither vehicle nor license" (france3)

The State hopes to raise 18 million from the sale of this real estate complex (lefigaro). Considering that state representatives are trading in goods that do not belong to them, they are likely to trade at a loss as...

Order of April 11, 2025 authorizing the amicable transfer of a real estate complex located at 13, Esplanade Jean-Moulin in Bobigny (Seine-Saint-Denis)

At this address, there was the Establishment SERV DEPART. ENREGISTREMENT BOBIGNY, closed since March 1, 2021. Other closures of Secondary Financial Institutions in Seine-Saint-Denis

Order of 14 April 2025 authorizing the transfer to the private sector of CNP Cyprus Insurance Holdings Limited

The transfer by the simplified joint-stock company Montparvie V to the Cypriot company Hellenic Bank Public Company Ltd of 90,000 ordinary shares of CNP Cyprus Insurance Holdings Limited, i.e. 100% of the capital of this company... at a price of 181,861,073 euros

Montparvie V      CNP Insurance       CNP.fr

Decisions of April 7, 2025 approving a funding association for a political party or political organization

The funding association for the political party LES AMIS D'AUGUSTIN AOUDHJANE and the funding association for the political party TAHO'E TATOU

• Augustin Aoudhjane, who was a tax advisor to President of the Republic and the Prime Minister, and he's not alone...

• the Métropole 50 think tank    

• TAHO'E TATOU, the new political party of the Old Lion, Gaston Flosse: "I can leave serene, in peace, everything is settled." Pink is the color chosen by this new political party. The turtle is its emblem and represents longevity, while the slogan focuses on love, solidarity, and sovereignty.

• Gaston Flosse, aged 94

Order of April 29, 2025, opening the archives produced or received during the Great National Debate

Purpose: The text is intended to facilitate access to public archives produced or received during the Great National Debate, held in the National Archives and the Departmental Archives. To this end, it provides for the free communication, before the expiration of the deadlines set out in Article L. 213-2 of the Heritage Code, of public archives produced or received during the Great National Debate, held in the National Archives and the Departmental Archives.

"...may be freely communicated..." but note that "Authorization to consult public archive documents before the expiration of the deadlines set out in I of Article L. 213-2 may be granted to persons who request it, provided that the interest in consulting these documents does not lead to excessive harm to the interests that the law intended to protect."

In a press release, The President of the Republic welcomes the availability of what he describes as "valuable historical and democratic material." He specifies that these notebooks will also be accessible online "during 2026." To this end, work is underway to digitize and anonymize the contributions.

History already, or elections on the horizon? Part of the answer is here, and elsewhere by browsing the web. Overall, it's demagoguery.

Notice on the publication of campaign accounts for the lists of candidates for the election of representatives to the European Parliament on 9 June 2024

Order of April 10, 2025 amending the Order of December 17, 2019 setting the selection criteria for blood donors

The list is a bit like the medical dictionary... indigestible without training.

Decree No. 2025-370 of April 22, 2025 relating to the establishment of death certificates

Decree No. 2025-371 of April 22, 2025 relating to the conditions for issuing death certificates by state-certified nurses

Order of April 22, 2025, relating to the training provided to state-certified nurses for issuing a death certificate under Article 56 of Law No. 2025-199 of February 28, 2025, on the financing of social security for 202

And soon, a detective series on Bignoflix. In the meantime... La Bignole's film recommendation: The Cortex film released in 2008  the trailer       

Order of April 25, 2025 governing the practice of implantation procedures associated with the placement of suburethral slings intended for the surgical treatment of stress urinary incontinence in women, pursuant to the provisions of Article L. 1151-1 of the Public Health Code

Order of April 25, 2025 governing the practice of procedures associated with the management of serious complications following the insertion of suburethral slings for the surgical treatment of stress urinary incontinence in women or suspension implants intended for the treatment of pelvic organ prolapse in women by upper surgery, in accordance with the provisions of Article L. 1151-1 of the Public Health Code

• Pelvic implants under reinforced surveillance is nothing new. "To limit the risk of side effects, the patient journey must be better managed..." (quechoisir)

• Disabling pain, tears, bleeding : 113 women have filed a complaint against unknown individuals after having vaginal implants inserted... These devices gradually become embedded in the tissues, and their removal, while difficult, can be mutilating. This dramatic situation prompted a 41-year-old woman to resort to assisted suicide in August 2023 in Belgium, after four years of agony. (francebleu)

• Women in pain after urinary strips: a urologist's explanations about implants vaginal

• Aid for farms : classification in disadvantaged areas

• Jurançon in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques

Order of April 22, 2025 authorizing the creation of a closed educational center in Rochefort (17)

Order of April 25, 2025, declaring the public utility of the Electricity Transmission Network (RTE) for the benefit of the company Réseau de transmission d'électricité (RTE), for the creation of two underground 225,000-volt connections from the Plessis-Gassot (95) and Villiers-le-Bel substations (95) to supply the "Digital Dugny" data center project in the municipality of Dugny (93)

This work is located in the municipalities of Plessis-Gassot, Bouqueval, Villiers-le-Bel, Gonesse, Bonneuil-en-France, and Garges-lès-Gonesse in the Val-d'Oise department, and in the municipality of Dugny in the Seine-Saint-Denis department... The following measures, concerning underground connections, are being implemented in accordance with the project impact study: avoidance or reduction

• Download the outline
• Always more numerous in Seine-Saint-Denis
• Fuel tanks and generators: the hidden pollution of data centers

Alongside the Official, some news from Dugny in duochromy...

The Paris Olympics 2024 lowers property tax in this small town in Seine-Saint-Denis... "A measure made possible thanks to the construction of the 2024 Olympic Games media village and the massive arrival of new owners in the village... The measure could be renewed in the coming years with the delivery of the second phase of the village..." (actu.fr)

"We feel ripped off!»: the disappointment of the first residents of the Dugny media village... "At home, I have a broken window, two cracks in my bathtub, a shower screen mounted upside down, leaking windows, wobbly paving stones on the terrace... There are too many things wrong!" "It's in a terrible state: broken windows, a roller shutter cut with an angle grinder, mold, water leaks, locks that aren't the right size..." The developer, Ametis, mentions "small carpentry defects," and admits that some windows have been "mistreated." According to François Fontes, the group's CEO, "This is just the usual stuff when new homes are delivered..." Residents paid more than €3,500 per square meter to become owners.

The construction of this "village" which must comply with the requirements of the decree of January 31, 1986, relating to fire protection in residential buildings

To rent immediately! The city without inhabitants in Dugny, a site visit, but public transportation leaves something to be desired
The city without inhabitants in Dugny, a site visit, but the Public transport leaves something to be desired, again and again...

The real estate market      And practical information as the holidays approach: Passport and identity card, Dugny's secret for always having available appointments... "We have an obligation to receive all requests. If a Nice resident wants to apply to us, they can," reports Quentin Gesell, mayor of Dugny (actu.fr)

Dugny    Gesell the mayor

The offbeat interview with Djida DJALLALI-TECHTACH, the mayor of Villiers-le-Bel
Villiers-le-Bel

The offbeat interview with Didier Guével the mayor of Plessis-Gassot
Le Plessis-Gassot and its 97 inhabitants

Official Vocabulary

List of automotive vocabulary (list of adopted terms, expressions, and definitions) and their equivalents in English, with one exception: there's German: "Oldtimer" and "Youngtimer," that's German!

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For collectors and "Phaleristologists"

Decree No. 2025-367 of April 23, 2025 amending Decree No. 53-333 of April 14, 1953, creating of a Mining Medal

In particular, modernization

• a) Research and extraction of solid terrestrial minerals;

• b) Research and development of geothermal resources;

• c) Research and development of underground energy storage;

• d) Post-mining management;

• e) Capture and underground storage of carbon dioxide (CO2).

The Mining Medal may be awarded without seniority requirements at any of the three levels for Exceptional services rendered in the activities mentioned in Article 1

History with the repeal

• However, the length of service includes time spent in the armed forces by citizens of the French Union (either as compulsory military service or as part of the wars of 1914-1918 and 1939-1945), and the bonuses or increases in service provided for by the laws and regulations in force and treated as such. workforce.

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