C'est magnifique, mais?.

Advantages: Nice town
Disadvantages: Shame about the palace

...sense of the word. Forgive me this introductory diatribe. I'm trying to come to terms with, or at least to articulate, why I deeply dislike Versailles. Not the town of Versailles, which is a pleasant enough suburban sort of place with some good cafés and an excellent market, but the palace. And the more I think about it, the more it comes down to the degree to which the palace, and its grounds, reflect the character of the king who caused it to be built. You may, for all I know, already be aghast at such heresy. Don't all the guidebooks wax lyrical about Versailles' magnificence? Indeed they do. It's unique, a World Heritage Site, one of the greatest of the world's palaces. Two days minimum are needed for a proper visit, insists the Michelin Green Guide. Well, the Miche would say that, wouldn't it, full as it is...

torr 28.11.2006 (05.12.2006) · Read review
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One day in Versailles...dangerous

Advantages: Ludic, history, decorations wonderful
Disadvantages: /

...Having visited the castle of Versailles, I am desired to further push my curiosity from this place of.history. I buy the CD-Rom of game which the name is : VERSAILLES, plot at the court of the sun king. I like much this game and I remake it with regular interval with always as much of pleasure. The palate in which you will move that of 1685 reconstituted very well thanks to technology 3D. Graphics are exceptional and give impression which we visit the rooms of the true castle of Versailles. The sound is a music but which with long tired the one but anything prevents you from cutting the music. The music is different according to the place where you are. In this game, all is realized to incite the gamer to visit this historical place later on. The goal of the game is like its name to thwart a plot: to put the hand...

joel56 01.12.2001 · Read review
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Le roi soleil et moi! (The Sun King and I)

Advantages: A fabulous day out
Disadvantages: One day is not enough, you will be exhausted!

...If you are going to Paris, my advice is forget Disneyland, go to Louisland! Here you can experience what life was like in the days of Louis the XIVth, at least for the well off in society. But this place is huge, so you will either have to be selective in what you see, or perhaps you could spend two days here (with hindsight, this is what we would have done.) In this review, I will tell you about what we saw, and perhaps a bit about what we missed, and offer some advice on how to make the most of the time you have available. I am afraid it might be a bit long, but you can always skip the bits that are not relevant to you, which is why I put headings in. ~Getting there~ ***************** As we were staying in Paris itself, we took a commuter train from gare Montparnasse to get to Versailles. This was relatively inexpensive...

weetoon 20.01.2006 (08.06.2006) · Read review
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Jean Paul Got To Have!

Advantages: Great long lasting smell, nice bottle
Disadvantages: A little more expensive than others on the market

...I was bought this aftershave for Christmas this year by my girlfriend. I liked it so much; I thought I would share my opinion of it with Ciao. Packaging Jean Paul Gaultier 'Le Male' comes in a silver tin with the 'Jean Paul Gaultier' label embossed on the front. You can pull the bottom of the tin off, and the bottle of aftershave sits in a stand on the base, which is attached to the base of the tin. Inside the top section of the tin is a white plastic section which holds the top of the bottle square inside the tin, once the bottle is back inside which stops it from rattling around and possibly being smashed inside. The bottle itself is typical of Jean Paul Gaultier aftershave and comes in their famous body shaped bottle. This particular bottle is in the theme of a sailor. The bottle is an off navy blue with white stripes...

Jamie73 02.01.2007 · Read review
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Versace Red Jeans - A Little Pungent!

Advantages: Not a bad scent, cheap to buy.
Disadvantages: Quite strong, heavy, not my kind of scent.

...I have had this fragrance for quite a while but it is rarely used as I have quite a few others which are more liked than this one. I would rate the product 3 out of 5 stars as it is not an awful product but definitely not my favourite. The product is 75ml which is in a glass bottle with a red plastic lid adorned with the Versace lion style logo. There is also 4 of the logos in the actual glass neck of the glass bottle and a sticker advising that the product is Versace Red Jeans Woman. The bottle is supplied within a red tin which I have since lost or thrown away. The smell does not last more than a couple of hours and has no real distinct notes to be honest. I find it to be a little too heavy and strong for my liking, but as an evening scent this isn't too bad on the scheme of things. Mine was purchased for about £12...

katyeverett 27.03.2009 · Read review
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●Smell My Jeans●

Advantages: Smells Nice, Lasts A Long Time and Good Price
Disadvantages: None

...I wear many perfumes, but Versace Red Jeans is the one that I'm 'known' for wearing. I have Burberrys, Far Away, Wink, Charlie Red and Glow. I wear perfume everyday; it's like a habit to put it on when I'm dressed in the morning. When I was at school, I'd wear a different one everyday, and because you wear your jumper for 5 days, it used to smell of loads of different perfumes by the end of the week. If I put on Far Away, my friends would say, 'that's not your smell' and if I put on Red Jeans, they'd all say, 'I can smell Stacey!' Anyways, after telling you that, I'll get on with the review. VERSACE: We have heard of Gianni Versace. Fashion Designer to the stars, he first started designing clothes in 1972. He first designed clothes for the theatre, where he was very much respected. In 1982 he made a great line...

JulyBunny 07.03.2005 · Read review
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THE JEANS MYTH HAS BECOME A PERFUME

Advantages: Refreshing & an array of exotic smells/Excellent Packaging/
Disadvantages: Pretty expensive/Bottle tends to finish quick

...First came the designer clothes, then came the designer sunglasses and now it?s all about the fragrances. Versace`s creative genius is also expressed through his unique scented and colourful fragrances ~ Blue Jeans & Red Jeans was first introduced in 1994 it was the first of many to trigger off the Versace ?Jeans? series, a series of fragrances that were made to compliment his designer jeans label. Since the launch of Blue Jeans back in 1994, Versace have introduced the following fragrances: ??Red Jeans?? Launched in 1994 ??Green Jeans?? Launched in 1996 ??Yellow Jeans?? Launched in 1996 ??White Jeans?? Launched in 1997 ??Black Jeans?? Launched 1997 ??Baby Blue & Baby Rose Jeans?? Introduced in 1995 An array of colourful bottles, a unique distinction of the Versace fragrance collection ~ The jeans myth has become...

Versatile 27.11.2001 (29.05.2003) · Read review
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Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre

Advantages: Thought-provoking and brimming with intellectualism
Disadvantages: Very slow and relatively annoying to read

...The first thing to note about this book is that it is very heavily philosophical in parts, as you may well expect from the 'grand-daddy' of existentialism. The entire novel is written as a series of diary entries, the author being a somewhat down-and-out historian by the name of Antoine Roquentin. The diary entries, on the whole, are relatively event-free, although Antoine does delve into self-righteous rants and rueful monologues often. The author Jean-Paul Sartre is now renowned for his intellectualism and literary style (being offered the Nobel Prize for literature in 1964), and it should be pointed out that 'Nausea' was his first published novel. Born in Paris 1905 Sartre was left fatherless in September 1906 and was raised by his mother Anne-Marie and her father. His leanings towards philosophy were realised during his...

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Revolutions - Jean Michael Jarre

Advantages: When it's good, it's very good.
Disadvantages: But when it's bad...

...20th Century. 2.: Industrial Revolution (part 1) - See above 3.: Industrial Revolution (part 2) - See above 4.: Industrial Revolution (part 3) - See above. 5.: London Kid. A fairly basic synth drum and pads backing with Hank Marvin(!) or Honk as Jean-Michel Jarre pronounces it, playing a typical Shadows type number over the top. Hit the next track button. Amazingly, this was a single. 6.: Revolution. A superb high energy track infused with eastern, & Turkish/North African type sounds and rythyms. It starts with a mournful wailing wind instrument before the main beats starts and a vocoder processed voice says 'Revolution'. One of the earlier Jarre tracks with lyrics. I wouldn't say the lyrics make much sense though - 'Change/No Change, Freedom/No Freedom'. More samples of ethnic sounds and wailing vocals make this a high...

ilaskey 09.03.2007 · Read review
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Jean De Florette - Part 1

Advantages: Beautiful landscapes, great acting, compelling story
Disadvantages: You have to see the next film to complete the story!

...Jean De Florette and Manon Des Sources, both from 1986, are two of the best-loved and most celebrated films in French cinema. They're adapted from the "L'Eau De Collines" books written by Marcel Pagnol, and really it's best to see them as two parts of the same story, rather than as the original film and its sequel. Jean De Florette won a whole heap of Bafta nominations in that year, and strangely it won Best Film overall yet missed out on Best Foreign Film! However it wasn't even nominated for an Oscar, which is a shame. It tells the tragic story of two greedy farmers in the French countryside. César Soubeyran (played by Yves Montard) and his nephew, Ugolin (Daniel Auteuil) want to grow carnations in their soil, and thus make a comfortable living. However, they don't have enough water, so they offer to buy the land of a neighbour...

l-m-n-o-p 23.09.2006 · Read review
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