University of Lille

This is the inner place of the university of Lille III SHS or Human and Social Sciences, where are teached also foreign languages, and such subjects like history, art, philosophy, social sciences, literature...  At this place you can sit on the benches, when the weather is warm. The palm trees in this North Country are something rare. The big building with the paint above is the library. This university was built 1972-73. I studied there 1973-74 and other years. /

Clara

photos taken in Juny 2017

Wall painting at the univeristy

This paint on the wall of the university of Lille 3 (Human and Social Sciences) is resuming the life of the people of the region in the XXth century. Unfortunately, the colors are fading. It is made in the way of medieval book illuminations.

This university is situâted  in the neighbourtown of Lille  Villeneuve d'Ascq, at a place named "Pont de Bois"

Clara

Photo taken in Juni 2017.

Bonjour

Je vois que depuis que les adresses ont changé, que nous sommes devenus .fr au lieu de .com, plus rien ne marche techniquement parlant ici, par exemple, si vous essayez de publier des phtotos, tout de suite on vous met une page blanche,

Le logiciel de publication de photo est à moitié vissible si vous cliquez sur "Envoyez un commentaire", tout cela parce que nous utilisons Internet Explorer (en bons français qui ont ce navigateur monté d'office sur leur ordianteur à l'achat) et pas Google Chrome.

Alors, plus moyen de publier une photo dans un photo blog???

Amalia

PS : J'ai réussi à mettre la photo quand même, sur Google Chrome! Je jongle avec deux navigateurs sur le même ordianteur!

Children at the univesity

It is very bad to publish a photo here... I can see only the half of the publication page. This is the legend of the photo : these children croosing the ground of the univesity are seemingly going to it (Univesity of Lille, in Villeneuve d'Ascq).

 (Impossible to publish the photo. I click on publish, publih, publih and it is not coming)
(Impossible de publier la photo, je clique sur publier et cela ne vient pas)
If there are "Notify Blogger' it is only french people (young 'plaisantains") making mobbing on me. They are coming though the links of a french blog.

Amalia

Cette photo représentait un groupe d'enfants (de loin et de dos) traversant le parvis d'une université. C'était de l'humour, la photo datant d'il y a trois ans, il est probable que les enfants qui ont grandi depuis, seraient heureux de s'y reconnaître et les parents d'y reconnaître leur enfants.
PS J'ai dû utiliser Google Chrome pour pouvoir publier la photo. Pas tout à fait normal!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year...

We think to publish again on this blog soon. We wish to you Happy New Year and Merry Christmas.
Perle de Rosée

A bird on a hedge

It is small and difficult to see on the photo, but the black "thing" in the curve of the hedge is a bird, it is called in french "merle", and it can sing very well. As I was a teenager I did like to hear at them from the window of my room. I took this photo not far from the town-hall of Croix. If you do not see well the bird click on the photo to make it larger. In the back you can see the back of some buildings which belong to the town-hall garden.

Clara

Happy New Year

I wish to all my readers and all the City Photo Bloggers an Happy New Year. Good Blogging.
Clara.

A mill in the town Croix

A you see this mill has a Christmas decoration. As I was young we called this town district near ours, the Quartier des Deux Moulins, it means in english town district of the two mills. I never seen the second mill, and this one was re-built since about fifteen years only.

Clara

Merry Christmas

This photo taken in Croix, is a Christmas decoration of an house, not fare where the place where I live as I was a teenager. At this time the houses had not Christmas enlightments on the road or street, only public buildings had some, but since a few years it is a new fashion to enlight the private houses on the road or street side.

Clara

Christmas is coming...

Here is a shop-window in Croix with Christmas decoration. I took this photo near the main place.

Some stones

Here are some stones in a square in Croix, near the metro station "Town-hall of Croix". And some autumn leaves.

Clara

Test

Test to see if the publishing is OK to-day.

Till'next !

I write 300 messages on all my blogs before I go to the béta version of the blog.
Clara

Flowers climbing at the gate

This flowers are climbing at the gate of the town-hall in Croix ( a town of 20 000 inhabitants in the Lille Métropole between Lille and Roubaix)and next to Roubaix). I toke this photo in last autumn 2005 but I want to publish it because I find it very well how they made it. In this town- hall we married more than thirty years ago.
Clara

Another town of the Lille Métropole : Croix

Croix is another town of the Métropole of Lille : here a little square near a sport hall, where are going all the drivers and passengers of these cars (Square Roger Martin du Gard).
It is an autumn view which I made in october/november 2005.
Clara

Comments opened.

The comments are working again, but I tried two hours long to get them open and now this blog has lost its counter.
Clara

I open the comments.

I forget to open the comments. I'm opening them now.
No; I didn't forget. I tried several times and it do not go. I tried to open the comment-boxes, but it doesn't go on this blog.
Clara, Lille Métropole City Photo Blog.

The door of Paris.

It is the triumph entrance of the city through which the king Louis XIV of France (called the sun king : le Roi Soleil) went into the city in the 17th century, when he did conquest this part of Flanders which became then french.

On the left you can see the triumphal door of Paris (doors bear the names of the streets or roads whereon they are lead). Above the right part of the door you see the town-hall tower called Beffroi (Unesco mankind cultural heritage) and the old part of the town-hall. It was rebuilt after the first World War in a flamish neo-gothic style : look at the little tower which looks like the tower of a medieval castle !

Clara

Reflection in a window

This is the reflection in the window of a shop of the tower of the catholic church St Sauveur (in France the most churches are catholic). This church is behind the town hall not far from the railway station Lille-Flandres.
Perle de Rosée.

The Beffroi of Lille.

Here is the Beffroi of Lille. It was built 1923 after the first World War because the first Beffroi was destroyed. A Beffroi is a tower where somebody had to watch upon the surroundings if no ennemy was to make the siege of the town. It was almost always built on the top of the town-hall. The Beffroi of Lille is part of the World Heritage of the UNESCO like 22 other Beffrois of the North-Pas de Calais and Picardy and a lot of Beffrois of Belgium. They have often a play of little bells one which are played smart melodies. In Lille is the hymn the P'tit Quinquin which is sung in Lille's dialect. It is a cradle song where the mother speaks to her child the P'tit Quinquin. The Beffrois are the emblems of the towns of the North Country.

On the right is an Oriel, it is the window of a house which is above the street so that the people can look better to the street. This one has femmish glasses (much little glasses in a wood embrasure).

Perle de Rosée.