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Platin Beach
“Cold drinks! Chichi!”
Seasonal beach worker
Every summer, the Lopez family, Guignard and Langman share a month-long vacation together at the beach hotel. As soon as the opportunity arises, they head for the Platin beach to enjoy the sunshine on the Atlantic coast. Sandcastle contests, swimming and sunbathing will be part of the beach activities.
In an interview for the blog TV news, Laurent Ceccaldi, the producer of the series, told the genesis of the series inspired by the famous film by Michel Lang released in 1978, in which his father Daniel Ceccaldi played. “I had to go to Mexico with my family when the Icelandic volcano with the unpronounceable name erupted. So we were without a vacation destination. I then remembered that a friend, Solen Roy-Pagenault, had advised me to go one day to the Grand Hôtel des bains de Locquirec which was used as a set for the film L’Hôtel de la plage. It was a very pleasant few days and a madeleine de Proust for me since, as a child, I had visited the plateau during an open day. […] All these memories made me want to see the film again, which I found charming. The 1970s, those families and friends who used to get together every summer to spend vacations together. I thought that there was a very nice material for a series. I talked to Caroline Solanillas, my partner, about it, and she was immediately on board.”
The first episode ofHotel de la plage brought together 3.36 million viewers on France 2.
Le Pont Du Diable
The Platin beach is a beach of Saint-Palais-sur-Mer offering beautiful scenery, with a nice view on the Pont du Diable which is nearby.
Spread over 800 meters, the Platin beach is a popular beach for vacationers. Accessible by the “sentier des Douaniers” from the beach of Saint-Palais, the Platin beach can be dangerous for the most fragile. Many rocks at low tide can be very sharp.
Its rock formations offer magnificent landscapes at the beach.
Nearby is the Pont-du-Diable, a natural rock formation popular with tourists and fishermen.
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Le Petit Nicolas - la bande dessinée originale (FR version)
Did you know that Petit Nicolas was born as a color comic strip? IMAV éditions publishes for the first time in a comic book the complete plates written by René Goscinny and drawn by Sempé. These plates appeared between 1955 and 1956 in a Belgian magazine, Le Moustique, to which Sempé and Goscinny collaborated. Then they left Le Moustique and, three years later, in 1959, they resumed Le Petit Nicolas, this time in the form of illustrated stories. The stories appeared in Sud-Ouest Dimanche, then were published in books and were a huge success. The unpublished drawings that are published today in this album contain all the ingredients that will make the success of Little Nicholas. They are presented in the form of one-page gags. In his scenarios, Goscinny has already set up the springs of the saga and portrays the main characters. Sempé already represents an immediately identifiable Nicolas. This comic strip already has the flavor of what will make the success of the character, humor and poetry. The publication of the album Le Petit Nicolas, la bande dessinée originale (The Little Nicholas, the original comic strip) completes this series imagined by René Goscinny and Jean-Jacques Sempé. This rediscovered treasure allows us to discover the genesis of one of the most famous works of children’s literature.
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