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Manila: Father Dauchez, 25 years working alongside street children

For the past 25 years, Father Matthieu Dauchez and his foundation Anak-Tnk (‘A Bridge for Children’) have been helping lost Filipino children in the capital. Their aim is to restore dignity and hope to as many of these children as possible, who ... ...

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Atelier d'Offard: exceptional wallpaper!

Trained at the Beaux-Arts, François-Xavier Richard founded the Atelier d'Offard in 1999. Located in Touraine, he is now perpetuating the wallpaper skills of the great 18th and 19th century manufacturers. This living heritage company reproduces ... ...

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Favorites, January 2025

Stop on Images : a selection of the latest productions by Hemis photographers. ...

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France: The truffle, the black gold rush

The black truffle season takes place every year from November to February but it is in December and January that they are the most fragrant In France, the tuber melanosporum is mainly harvested in the south-west but there are other origins. This ... ...

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Roman aqueduct of Nîmes: the masters of water

Around 50 AD, under the reigns of the emperors Claudius and Nero, Nîmes was a thriving metropolis with a population of around 25,000. Nîmes owed much of its prosperity to its spring, which was located to the north of the city and was the result of ... ...

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Avalanche dogs: the 4-legged heroes of our mountains

In the resort of Flaine in Haute-Savoie, at an altitude of 2200 metres, a very special training session was held. It wasn't for ski racers, but for mountain rescue dogs and their handlers. No St Bernards were involved, but flat coated retrievers, ... ...

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Transylvania: addicted to Dracula!

Count Dracula is a fictional character born of the unbridled imagination of the British writer Bram Stocker at the end of the 19th century. The novel was first published in 1897. Dracula is nonetheless based on a very real figure, Vlad Tepes, known ... ...

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Lava stone: a fusion of styles in Auvergne by Christian GUY

Although dormant today, the volcanoes of the Auvergne have been pouring lava into the region's valleys for almost 100,000 years. Although the volcanic nature of Volvic stone has been recognised since the middle of the 18th century, extraction of ... ...

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Seoul: The Breath of Renewal

Seoul is one of the top destinations of the moment. A young and colorful metropolis, it is an essential stopover for travelers attracted by Asia. Over the past decade, the South Korean capital has initiated new trends and made them adopted by the ... ...

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The world's most astonishing lighthouses

There are a wide variety of lighthouses around the world. These maritime signalling devices are distinguished by their originality of shape, colour, material... Historic or contemporary, huge or tiny, they often stand watch over breathtaking ... ...

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CAVALIER Michel

He discovered his passion for photography in 1991 during an 8 month's over-land motor-bike trip from France to India, followed by a 2 month trek in the Himalaya mountains. Ever since, he has been convinced that he must keep a photographic account of ... ...

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JAYET Pierre

After spending many years in corporate reporting, he specializes in landscape photography to capture the beauty and diversity of the territories that surround him. In 2019, he begins a work on natural heritage of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, a ... ...

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Coastal erosion: A phenomenon under surveillance by Francis CORMON

Normandy is particularly exposed to the retreat of the coastline, which endangers homes located along the coastline. Thus, over the last 50 years, 30km2 of land have been eaten away. It is enough to observe the blockhouse of Sainte-Marguerite, which ... ...

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Vietnam: Con Dao, from prison to paradise by Philippe BODY

The small archipelago of Con Dao is becoming one of the most popular and confidential destinations in Southeast Asia. A little corner of paradise for islands that were for decades rather a symbol of hell on earth. It was there that the French ... ...

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Valence hoists the colors by Hervé HUGHES

The third largest city in Spain, Valencia has something to surprise! Proud of the futuristic curves of the City of Arts and Sciences imagined by Calatrava, of the architectural riches of the historic center including the Mercat Central, an ... ...

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Vietnam: Happiness Road by Philippe BODY

The old colonial road 4C was baptized by its residents the Route du Bonheur, for having brought one of the wildest regions of North Vietnam out of isolation. The highest road in the country crosses the province of Ha Giang in a few thousand ... ...

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Glasgow Arty by Grégory GERAULT

The recent reopening of the Burrel Collection, the Mackintosh style, the vibrant pulse of a city reinventing itself: three good reasons to spend a weekend in Glasgow. Glasgow has a false air of an American city, the streets go up and down crossing ... ...

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Seven Islands: Last refuge for puffins by Jean-Michel SOTTO

Welcome to the Sept-Îles archipelago, an ornithological paradise in northern Brittany. A day at sea aboard the sailboat Sant C'hireg to get as close as possible to the only colony in France of Gannets, but also to take advantage of the last days of ... ...

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Louis XI: The construction of a centralized power

He became king in 1461 and reigned until his death in 1483. Louis XI is often wrongly regarded as a Machiavellian and political king, known for his cunning and intrigues. Above all, he was involved in several peace and war treaties during his reign, ... ...

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Manufacture de Longwy: The song of enamels by Vincent DAMARIN

Founded in 1798 by the Boch family, the Manufacture des Emaux de Longwy has been defending the excellence of Lorraine's know-how for over two centuries. Its reputation grew when Napoleon Ist decided to entrust the workshops with the realization of ... ...

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Protectors of the wild Rhône by Denis PALANQUE

The Rhône, 812km long, has its source in Switzerland in the Saint Gothard massif, at an altitude of 1753m. It crosses Lake Geneva before arriving in France and flowing via the Camargue delta into the Mediterranean Sea. Between Lyon and Switzerland, ... ...

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Gardens of the Riviera: Between nature and elegance by Bertrand RIEGER

Verdant gems on the Mediterranean coasts, the gardens of the Riviera in France and Ventimiglia offer an enchanted getaway in lush havens of peace. From the sumptuous parks of the Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild, where French elegance reigns supreme, to ... ...

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Nancy Thermal: Back to basics by Patrick ESCUDERO

To find the existence of a thermal establishment in Nancy, we must go back to 1913 when the National Academy of Medicine granted the authorization to the city to exploit the hot spring discovered in 1909. Drawn 800m below the surface, making it the ... ...

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Montreal: Open-air museum by Philippe RENAULT

Today there are hundreds of them and their number continues to increase. Montreal has become a go-to destination for street art featuring monumental murals. From graffiti to stencil, from mosaic to collage, from installations to murals, street art ... ...

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