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Sunday, May 04, 2008

Jules Verne Carousel








The tourism board of the Jura set up a sort of fair in the Place de la Croix-Rousse, with information booths, stands selling regional specialties, a petting zoo with typical farm animals, and the like. (The Jura is a mountainous, largely-undeveloped region north of here, wedged between Alsace and Switzerland.) And though I picked up some brochures about trout fishing in the Jura's mountain streams, the star of the show was this Jules Verne-themed carousel, complete with rockets, submarines, streetcars and motorcycles, plus a biplaned tip of the hat to local Lyon hero Saint-Exupery, done up in period style.

2 Comments:

  • At 2:44 AM, Blogger Pat F. said…

    I can't believe you posted about this. The friend I go hiking with grew up in the Jura and is one of the world's experts on Jules Verne. He is donating his collection of JV stuff to the Maison d'Ailleurs in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland (http://www.ailleurs.ch/), and I'm going there in October for the dedication (I'm editing the proceedings of a symposium they'll be having in conjuction with the opening). Small world.

     
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