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Jean-Louis Pagès is dead
#GARD – He had designed the plans for the largest abbey in the United States: Saint-Michael’s Abbey, in California. His final, most emotionally important work, in his seventh decade. The Nîmes architect Jean-Louis Pagès died in Nice, this Tuesday, October 22, 2024. In Nîmes, he created a certain number of collective housing units (such as the terraces of Europe, République district), but also luxurious villas, on the heights of the city. In the Gard, among its many interventions, we will remember among others the prestigious auditorium of Fourques. Its projects go well beyond: Agen, Gibraltar, Guadeloupe…
Today’s figure: 660,000
#AGDE – There’s an uproar in the world of casino operators. The introduction of an amendment to the finance bill for 2025, potentially opening the online casino market, worries players in the sector, including the Barrière group, which operates the Cap d’Agde casino. For this municipality alone, the expected losses would be of the order of 660,000 euros. Which is not trivial, even if these are still very random estimates.
Prison requested for school bus driver
#MILES – The prosecution requested this Thursday, October 24, five years in prison, including two years, on appeal against Nadine Oliveira, the driver of the school bus hit by a train in Millas (Pyrénées-Orientales) in 2017, guilty according to him of having provoked the death of six college students killed in the accident. At first instance, Nadine Oliveira was sentenced to one year in prison and four years suspended. As during this first trial, the indictment was delivered in the absence of the defendant, who was the victim of discomfort in the middle of the hearing on the fourth day of her appeal trial and who has not been able to attend since. on October 10. While the driver maintains that the barriers were open, the investigation as well as the testimonies of the survivors call her version into question.
The next Caterham signed Anthony Jannarelly
#DRAWS – A Mendois is in the process of inscribing his name on an exceptional car, the Project V de Caterham. This very first electric car from the British brand is in fact designed by Anthony Jannarelly.
His passion for cars dates back to his childhood in Lozère. When he was 8 or 9 years old, he was already drawing cars. “I’ve become a bit of a freak, recognizing them all.” More than the mechanics, it is the aesthetics that attracts him. “If one day someone had told me that I would be a designer at Caterham, a brand that I love! And what’s more, it’s really me who develops the entire brief, with total freedom, almost, on the next design, It’s quite amazing.” The Project V will be a 2 + 1 coupe, two seats in the front, a central one in the rear, “an everyday, sporty, simple and light car”. It will be marketed in 2026.
“Guimet +” in Montpellier
#HERAULT – Montpellier was chosen to host, at the end of 2025, a “Guimet +” among four cities in France. The announcement was made this Thursday, October 24, on the occasion of the signing of a letter of intent between the Fabre museum and that of Chengdu in China where the mayor of Montpellier has been for several days. “This signature foreshadows future exchanges and collaborations”explains Florence Hudowicz, representative of the Fabre Museum. In addition to loans of works, exchanges on restoration techniques are already planned. Symbolic works will travel between Languedoc and Sichuan starting next year under the patronage of the Guimet museum.
