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MAUBERT MUTUALITE
The name of Maubert means "Grand Albert".
This place date back from 1202. It is Jean Aubert, Abbot of Sainte Geneviève, which gave it its name. It became a gathering place where the famous Dominican, Albert the great, the philosopher, loved comment, outdoors, under St. Louis’s reign, the physics of Aristotle. [More ...]
The Royal Factory Of Beauvais
This too is a creation of Colbert’s. Established in 1664 was to manufacture for the open market to compete with the Flanders tapestries. It was thus conceived as a private enterprise subsidized to a considerable extent by the Royal Treasury but having to live by its sales to the private trade or to the Crown. Louis Hinart, its director, had attracted a large number of Flemish who wove verdure and landscapes with small figures.
In 20 years he supplied the Crown Repository with 254 tapestries. [More ...]
The National Savonnerie Factory
In 1663, after the Gobelins, Colbert reorganized the Savonnerie Factory. In 1826, under Charles X the Savonnerie was finally set up within the confines of the Gobelins.
Under Charles Le Brun, its first artistic director, the Savonnerie enjoyed a period of exceptional activity when its production, reserved exclusively for the king, went to the furnishing of the residences of Louis XIV or served as diplomatic gifts to foreign sovereigns or ambassadors.
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The Royal Gobelins Works In The Eighteenth-Century
Jules Hardouin-Mansart, the King’s Superintendent of Buildings, was chosen to put the establishment back into operation. Until 1782 its directorship was entrusted to architects who were the king’s building supervisors in Paris.
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Corentin Cariou
Corentin Cariou is a name of a metro station in Paris.
The station was called until 1946, Pont de Flandre. It took the name of a bridge which spans the Canal de Saint-Denis leading the Rue de Flandre, the main street of the commune of La Villette, to the Porte de La Villette.
It is named after Corentin Cariou (1898-1942) a Brittany born man, who was a member of the municipal council of the XIX arrondissement of Paris.
He was shot by the Nazis as a hostage during World War II. [More ...]
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