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Legendary Guns N ‘Roses will perform in Paris

The band-legend of the 1980s and early 1990s will give a concert in Paris as a part of the world tour. The “reason” for the concert can not be called “fresh” – the tour is dedicated to the album «Chinese Democracy» released in late 2008.

Fans of Guns N ‘Roses will have a great chance to see and hear the charismatic leader of the American hard-rock band Axl Rose and the new guitarist Daren Jay «DJ» Ashba.

Taking into account that the fans had to wait this disc for long 15 years there is sense to stretch the pleasure to the next. Though a new guitarist says that Axl Rose has so many songs that they will be enough to record three great albums.

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Musee d’Orsay: Exhibition of Edgar Degas

If you are a connoisseur of the work of Edgar Degas, then we advise you to visit Paris from 13 March to 30 June. At this time the exhibition of the great master “Degas and Nude” will be organized in the halls of the Museum d’Orsay. This is the first exhibition of his works in Paris for the last 25 years, the previous one was at the Grand Palais.

The Museum continues to introduce Parisians and visitors the brightest representatives of visual art of the second half of the 19th century. The exhibition “Degas and Nude” will be next after large exhibitions of Edouard Manet and Claude Monet.

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The Young Wine – New Appellation in France

Great news for collectors and just lovers of French wines – a new Appellation has appeared on the map of France. And this spring, visitors to the Paris cafes and restaurants will be able to taste the wine whose label will proudly sound «Coteaux Bourguignons».

This is a long tradition to relate the taste and aroma of wine to the place where the grapes were grown and where it was produced. Actually, even within the same wine region such important natural factors as, for example, soil and climate can vary considerably.

It is significant that exactly the French introduced the world the concept of “terroir”, uniting all the conditions having an influence on the quality of grapes and, of course, the wine. Also French gave the majority of other wine terms.

Coteaux Bourguignons will replace in the French wine list of AOC (Appelation d’Origine Contrôlée) Bourgogne Grand Ordinaire. This decision has already been approved by the appropriate organization – the National Institute for origin and quality of goods (Institut National de l’Origine et de la Qualité).

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The amusement park dedicated to Napoleon will be opened near Paris

Napoleonland – even the name of this theme park, which will be built near Paris in coming years, says that its creators are going to take away a part of glory of the famous Disneyland.

Entertaining complex, conceived in honor of the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, will locate in a very symbolic place – in the town of Montereau near Paris. Exactly here Napoleon won a symbolic victory over Russian and Austrian armies in the distant 1814.

The author of an idea of this new park is the former French Minister for Overseas Territories and a great lover of history – Yves Jego. According Mr. Jego, Napoleonland «will be perfect for a family recreation”.

Program of the new French amusement park, of course, will be composed of various “military” performances.

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David Guetta will perform in Bercy

French DJ- legend David Guetta will give the final concerts of his tour in Paris supporting the album «Nothing But The Beat».

The double album of the most popular French artist of the first decade of the XXI century was released in August 2011 and had already won the world-wide success.

David Guetta is known primarily for his inflammatory remixes (many pop-stars have been successful largely due to his “adaptations”). However, almost all the music for two new disks, united under one name, was created by David Guetta himself.

“I’ve never worked as much as on this album. It’s good that my wonderful colleagues helped me,”- David Guetta commented the album «Nothing But The Beat».

On April 7 and 8 the famous DJ will concertize at Bercy Sports Palace (Palais omnisports de Paris-Bercy) which to become “the biggest dance club in France” these days.

The concerts’ beginning – 21.30. The organizers advise to come earlier not to stand in line of the fans avid for energy of David Guetta. The doors of Bercy will open two hours before the show – at 19.30.

Ticket prices start from 45 euros.

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Paris Doll Museum

If you go to Paris with your children or just want to return to childhood for a short while, then we advise you to visit Parisian Museum of Dolls. It is not marked on the main tourist routes, but nevertheless, believe, good mood and lots of ​​positive emotions are guaranteed here.

Despite the fact that the museum is located near very busy Rue de Rivoli in Paris you will be at pains to find it. This place is fairly well hidden from prying eyes in local courtyards.

Paris Doll Museum was opened rather recently, it had happened only in 1994. The basis of today’s museum collection has become the legacy of a father and a son by the name of Odin. The older representative of this family – Guido – worked as a costumier in a theater of Piedmont for a long time. When his son Samy was sixteen years old he had given him a rare book on the making of antique dolls, French costumier and artists whose names are associated with the production of dolls. Maybe it might sound strange someone, but thanks to this rare book the Doll Museum had appeared in Paris.

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Soundgarden concert in Paris

The heyday of the American group Soundgarden fell on the first half of the 1990s when musicians were considered perhaps the main “competitors” of the legendary Nirvana (and we must admit that it was quite deservedly) in the popular musical direction – “grunge”. Founded in 1984 in Seattle by Chris Cornell the band has sold over twenty million of their disks before in 1997 the musicians stoped cooperation because of creative differences, – in any event the official version says so.

At the end of 2009 Soundgarden began its second life after the band’s frontman Chris Cornell and guitarist Kim Tayil decided to return to the common creative work. New members are also Matt Cameron and Ben Shepherd. And a new studio album «Live On i5», published in 2011, became the result of this reunion. In addition, the band begins their world tour in support of their new album.

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Parisian Museum of Advertising

The life of modern human society is simply impossible to imagine without such a phenomenon as advertising. It is difficult to say when there were the first advertisers, but we can safely say that advertising had become an important element of human development. And if we take into account the fact that Paris has been a favorite place for people of different creative professions historically, then the advertising had to become something special for this city.

Do you like advertising or are an expert in this field, or maybe just interested in all the original? In this case, you definitely need to visit Parisian Museum of Advertising (Musee de la Publicite), collected under its roof the brightest examples of the French advertising.

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Parisian Museum of coins and medals

The nature of every person has something special and unique, a taste for something what another may consider not interesting and useless. Tell me: do many of us take a great interest in numismatics? Probably not! But, nevertheless, there are people for whom ancient coins and medals are, perhaps, the breath of life. And these people, certainly, would visit with great pleasure one of the oldest museums in France – the Cabinet of coins and medals (Cabinet des Medailles et Monnaies) – being in Paris.

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Nightwish is going to Paris

The debates about in what style Nightwish plays have being held since the beginning of its history. But this does not prevent the band to pack concert halls and stadiums in any of the cities where the famous Finnish musicians come to.

Perhaps, the best definition of their style is voiced by the author of Nightwish’s music and lyrics Tuomas Holopainen: “melodic heavy metal with female vocals”.

And let some fans to believe that after a former soloist Tarja Turunen departure the band is not the same, other fans like Nightwish with her successor Anette Olzon even more than before.

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