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Goussainville (France), Aug 27 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Mario García Sánchez / Christophe Petit-Tesson) Just 15 kilometers from Paris, a small town refuses to fall into oblivion half a century after the construction of Charles Airport de Gaulle, a project that led 1,000 residents to abandon their homes under pressure from the French administration to demolish them. FOOTAGE FROM GOUSSAINVILLE'S "OLD COUNTRY" RESOURCE (VIEUX-PAYS)SOUNDBITES OF PHILIPPE VIEILLIARD, HONORARY PRESIDENT OF THE ASSOCIATION IN DEFENSE OF THE PEOPLE AND SACRISTAN OF THE CHURCH OF SAINT-PAIERRE; AND OF PIERRE MURILLO, AN OLD NEIGHBOR, SON OF SPANISH REPUBLICAN PARENTS EXILE IN FRANCE.TRANSLATION:Vieilliard:1. "We'll see what he does. I don't know if we can be hopeful, but we're going to ask him to do something. So far he's been cleaning the streets a little better and even installed a second bell in the church. So that's a little sign, but it has to start out stronger than that. "2. Murillo: a lot of people believed what they were told, they were going to destroy the whole town, it was always small but very nice and fun, everyone knew each other around here
Paris, Apr 18 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Martí Rodríguez) Reinventing themselves, looking for new sources of income and some official aid has been the recipe for small museums in Paris to survive the 6 months they have been closed, like the rest of cultural centres, due to the government's restrictions to stop the pandemic.FOOTAGE OF MUSEUMS IN PARIS (THE MUSEUM OF OIL LAMPS-LUMIERE DE L'OEIL, MUSEE DE MINEAROLOGIE, MUSÉE DES ARTS FORAINS)SOUNDBITES OF ARA KEBAPCIOGLOU, OWNER OF THE MUSEUM LUMIÈRE D’OEIL (IN ENGLISH), AND OF DIDIER NECTOUX, DIRECTOR OF THE MUSEE DE MINEAROLOGIE (IN FRENCH).Nectoux translation:1. It's a bit of a paradox because financially, we've had less income from tickets, of course, but we've made up for it with patronage. I have been able to spend more time searching for that financing and the result for 2020 is that it has never been so good financially.2. There has been a fully public patronage agreement with the Van Cleef and Arpels Jewellery School, for which we will receive an amount of 40,000 euros per year for three years to research them. That for us is exceptional.3. (Being closed), we had to get close to the public. During the first confinement, I made a daily video about rocks and their properties. In front of my camera, with my little rocks… it was a little geology course.
Some "yellow vest" protesters arrive at Champs-Elysées, for a new day of mobilization, a month after the start of their protest movement which has plunged President Emmanuel Macron's government into its biggest crisis. IMAGES
Hundreds of flights are cancelled at French airports despite the country's main air traffic controllers' union dropping a call for a one-day strike after making a deal for higher pay. IMAGES
The blades of Paris' famed Moulin Rouge are piled into a truck after they collapsed during the night, just months before the French capital hosts the Olympics, and leaving the iconic building looking bare. IMAGES
Workers recover the blades of the Moulin Rouge windmill, one of the most famous landmarks in Paris, after they collapsed during the night, just months before the French capital hosts the Olympics. IMAGES