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IMPORTANT DEADLINES |
End of early attendance fees |
10th July 2008 |
Modified abstracts submission |
25th June 2008 |
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| Guided visits for accompanying persons |
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| Thursday 4th September from 3:00 to 5:00 pm |
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GUIDED VISIT Nr. 1
Lyon Renaissance district and its "traboules" |
This Renaissance district, listed by the organization "Historical Monuments", is the largest of its kind in France.
It consists of 3 separate villages: St Georges to the South, St Paul to the North-East, and St Jean in the middle.
The area mainly became a town in itself during the 15th and 16th centuries. The tour enables you to see St. John's Cathedral, and then the district itself with its narrow streets, inner courtyards and "traboules"
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GUIDED VISIT Nr. 2
Down the Croix-Rousse hill through the "traboules" to a silk printing workshop |
Enter the world of Silk through “traboules” passageways...
Lyon, capital of Silk...
Discover the covered passageways winding down the hill, through the inner courts of old buildings. These passageways tell the story of the “Canuts” silk workers of the 19th century and the industrialization of silk production. At the foot of Croix-Rousse hill, a silk-workshop demonstrates Lyon's traditional know-how: the art of silk screening, also known as frame printing.
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| Gala dinner in the Abbaye de Collonges |
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Three miles (5km) outside the city of Lyon, on the banks of the river Saône, the “Abbaye of Collonges” stands in all its splendor, offering you a unique welcome.
The sound of the playing of its grand fairground organs, so lovingly restored, will bring thrills and joy to the heart, the moment you enter this domain created expressly for good times, totally independent, on one side your pleasure, on the other your professional meetings and conventions.
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| A brief history of Paul Bocuse's Abbaye of Collonges |
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Back in 1765, one of Paul Bocuse's ancestors, the wife of the miller of Collonges-au-Mont-d'Or was known for her cooking by the local countryfolk who brought their corn to the mill. When the Paris-Lyon-Marseille main line railway was built in 1840, running a few metres from where the Restaurant Paul Bocuse stands today, the mill was demolished. The Bocuse family had to move a little way downstream, to a farm once belonged to the monks on the Ile-Barbe. Generations later, in 1921, Paul's grandfather Joseph, married to Marie, one day suddenly decided to sell this establishment and with it went the name of the first family restaurant on the river Saone, the "Restaurant Bocuse". |
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A few years later, in 1925, Paul's father, Georges Bocuse married Irma Roulier whose parents were restaurateurs owning the "Hotel du Pont de Collonges" (today the Restaurant Paul Bocuse), where Paul Bocuse was born on February 11, 1926.
Georges Bocuse already had a certain reputation for his cuisine but to his great misfortune, since his father had sold the building and name of their family restaurant, he could not give his restaurant his own name. Matters were further aggravated when the restaurateur who had bought Joseph and Marie's business moved into the Abbaye of Collonges, calling it the "Restaurant Bocuse". |
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We must wait until 1966 for Paul Bocuse who, well-advanced in his professional career as chef - he had won his Meilleur Ouvrier de France title in 1961, was awarded his third Michelin star in 1965 - finally succeeded in buying back his great-grandparents' old restaurant and restoring to it the BOCUSE family name.
Paul named his grandparents' old restaurant the "Abbaye de Collonges" in memory of the monks on the Ile-Barbe ; the letters of the BOCUSE family name shine out today from the roof of the restaurant they have now been running for over 50 years. |
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