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HEALTH / EHPAD, a new youth for the elderly!

Following the controversy about retirement homes, the EHPADs wanted to change their image as places to die. These establishments do not house just the elderly but also people without true family structures and others with certain handicaps . The principle is simple: everybody has the right to live with dignity.
Feature : Patrick Forget

HISTORY / 80 years of the front-wheel drive in la Ferté-Vidame

In La Ferté-Vidame, on the weekend of September 13 and 14, 2014, the biggest gathering of Citroen front-wheel drives in the world took place. More than 1000 of those mythical cars rendezvoused to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Traction Avant.
Feature : Patrick Forget

HISTORY / Fragonard, the skinner

A strange world, horrible and poetic, that of the skinner Honoré Fragonard. To be discovered in a small museum right in the heart of the National Veterinary School of Maisons-Alfort.

Text : Camélia Delgrange - Photos : Patrick Forget

SANTE / Mosquito invasion in the South!

On the Mediterranean coast, mosquitos represent the main potential problem for people. The damp periods favor the insects' anarchical development. Though a newcomer, the tiger mosquito has already colonized 18 departments in just four years!
Feature : Guy Humeau

SOCIETY / Lorelei, cabin fever

When, in 2009, my sister told me that she had given up everything, quit her master's degree in ethology, her laboratory research, her Paris apartment, everything, I though she had “gone nuts”. And yet, Lorelei is serene.

Text : Vanessa Forget - Photos : Patrick Forget

WORK / Workers of the sea, the Prawn Catchers

April to September is the prawn fishing season. Thierry Evain, fishing boat captain, has made it his specialty. All aboard the trawler, the Quentin-Grégoire.

Text : Djamel Bentaleb / Photos : Patrick Forget