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Bizet’s Carmen in Toulon

Posted onFebruary 9, 2018August 31, 20189 Comments

Whatever else you might have heard about Toulon, you should be aware that it has a gorgeous nineteenth century opera house — one of the largest opera houses in France Read More …

CategoriesToulonTagsBizet, Grétry, Operas, Operas in France (outside of Paris), Racine

Guided walking tour of Toulon

Posted onFebruary 8, 2018February 12, 20182 Comments

Before I went to Toulon I booked a guided walking tour through the website of the Toulon tourist office. It was a two-hour tour, in French, called A la découverte Read More …

CategoriesToulonTagsGuided walking tours

Vauban in Toulon

Posted onFebruary 7, 2018February 8, 20183 Comments

In 1679, the great military engineer Sébastien Le Prestre, marquis de Vauban (1633-1707), wrote that the harbor of Toulon was “the most beautiful and the most excellent of the Mediterranean Read More …

CategoriesToulonTagsVauban

Théâtre Liberté

Posted onJanuary 27, 2018January 21, 20181 Comment

In 2001, after the city elections that removed the right-wing Front National from power in Toulon, the new mayor began working with the mayors of eleven nearby towns to form Read More …

CategoriesToulonTagsTheatre

Cycling in and around Toulon

Posted onJanuary 25, 2018May 15, 20181 Comment

Each year the French Federation of Bicycle Users gives two awards to cities or regions in France. These are the Golden Handlebars (Le Guidon d’Or) for the best local bicycle Read More …

CategoriesToulonTagsCycling, Urban transport

By train to Toulon

Posted onJanuary 23, 2018January 28, 20182 Comments

Unlike Victor Hugo, who traveled from Marseille to Toulon by stagecoach in 1839, I came by train. His excuse was that the railroad didn’t even reach Toulon until twenty years Read More …

CategoriesToulonTagsTrain travel

The Bagne prison colony

Posted onJanuary 22, 2018January 25, 20184 Comments

From 1748 to 1873 Toulon was the site of a brutal prison colony called Le Bagne Portuaire de Toulon. An exhibition on this prison colony was shown at the Naval Read More …

CategoriesToulonTagsVictor Hugo

Harbor tour in Toulon

Posted onJanuary 21, 2018January 25, 20182 Comments

Several companies offer boat tours of the harbor and the military port in Toulon. The one I chose (for no particular reason) was called Bateliers de la Côte d’Azur. The Read More …

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Place de la Liberté

Posted onJanuary 16, 2018January 21, 20183 Comments

This “Liberty Square” in Toulon is a good place to ruminate on the ambiguities of the concept of Liberté, especially since Toulon in former times was best known not as Read More …

CategoriesToulonTagsBizet

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