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The neighbourhood where we live is called « Bécon-les-Bruyères », it is situated at the intersection of three towns : Courbevoie, Asnières-sur-Seine and Bois-Colombes.
The train station of Bécon-les-bruyères was opened to the public in 1891 and then buildings started to appear around the station, as it happened in all the Parisian suburbs at that time. Even though, they were mainly buildings with flats to let, each of them had it own style! They are often rather colourful because bricks were often used in this period. Architects used to play with the different colours or finish of enameled bricks to draw patterns on the façade.
During the second lockdown, my friend Anne-Laure and I met every thursday for a walk in our neighbourhood.I had pulled out from my library the excellent book by Historian Pierre Mignot about Paris façades. We often started our walk at the station. Buildings from the same period can be so different. We also noticed the houses. It was important at that time to be close to the railway, close to modernity. There are a lot of very big and very nice houses near the railways. Each walk offered us some nice discoveries, this is what you are going to hear in today’s episode.
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My name is Laetitia, I’m French, I live just outside Paris and I share with you a small slice of my daily life here in France. I also run the podcast One Thing In A French Day since 2006
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CYF128 — Paris : acheter un livre chez Galignani — mercredi 1er juin 2022
CYF 127 — Comment apprendre le français : rencontre avec Alice Chance — mercredi 25 mai 2022
CYF 126 — La dame souriante et le poète — mercredi 18 mai 2022
CYF 125 — Le muguet du 1er mai et une poule noire baladeuse — mercredi 11 mai 2022
CYF 123 — Élections : le soulagement et bravo les Français ! — mercredi 27 avril 2022
CYF 122 — Balade dans le quartier Saint-Martin, rue du Château d’eau — mercredi 20 avril 2022
CYF 121 — Elections présidentielles : le premier tour — mercredi 13 avri 2022
CYF 120 — Marcel Proust au musée Carnavalet — mercredi 6 avril 2022
CYF 119 — Le petit-déjeuner idéal au BAB, le Bar à brioches (Paris) — mercredi 30 mars 2022
CYF 118 — mercredi 23 mars 2022 — Routine avant d’aller au lycée
CYF 117 — Nous sommes démasqués — mercredi 16 mars 2022
CYF 116 — Char à voile — mercredi 9 mars 2022
CYF 115 — Rochechouart : Dans le même panier
CYF 114 — Le mariage forcé (Molière)
CYF 113 — Aller au théâtre à Paris, rencontre avec Carl de Poncins — mercredi 16 février 2022
CYF 112 — Elections présidentielles — mercredi 9 février 2022
CYF 111 — A la boulangerie un samedi après-midi — mercredi 2 février 2022
CYF 110 — mercredi 26 janvier 2022 — Le brevet blanc de Felicia
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