Archive for Bourg-la-Reine
Noctureine [5K – 21:13 – 15/86]
Posted in Running with tags 5K, Bourg-la-Reine, Hauts de Seine, long distance running, road race on June 23, 2022 by xi'an
my neighbourhood in the New Yorker
Posted in Books, pictures, Travel with tags 1968, Bourg-la-Reine, France, Kapital, Kenilworth, May 68, Paris, Paris suburbs, sociology, The New Yorker on October 14, 2020 by xi'an
While I was reading (part of) a recent issue of The New Yorker over breakfast, I was surprised to find my neighbourhood city of Bourg-la-Reine (twin city, Kenilworth!) mentioned in a tribune! It was about interviewing the local authors of a boardgame called Kapital! which is presented there as a form of (French) anti-Monopoly, authors who were both CNRS researchers in sociology until they retired. And who produced (even) more militant ouput since then, including this boardgame. The (unintended?) fun in the tribune is the opposition between the May 68 style class warfare denounced by the authors and their apparently well-off conditions (no BBQ in the street there!).
art brut
Posted in pictures, Travel with tags Bourg-la-Reine, electric cables, Montpellier, moon, night sky on February 8, 2014 by xi'an
Évariste Galois in the métro…
Posted in Books, pictures, Travel, University life with tags Bourg-la-Reine, continued fractions, Evariste Galois, IHP, Legendre, métro on December 18, 2011 by xi'anThis morning, while waiting for a very late métro, I took those pictures from the platform.
These posters were in Bourg-la-Reine, where Évariste Galois was born in 1811 and which now celebrates the 200th anniversary of his birth. There are other celebrations around, at IHP for instance.
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