Visit of the Villa Puebla

On Saturday 17 September at 17.30 we propose a visit to Villa Puebla which will be followed at 18.15 by a conference on the geographer Elisée Reclus. Villa Puebla was built in 1880 and twenty years later, in 1903, sensitive to the fantasy and ambition of the new villas, its owner Eugene Lions, commissioned the architect Francis Girard to update his house. Friezes and decorative earthenware paintings highlight the different levels and mark the frame of the first floor bays. The roof has also been modified: The extended cover is supported by the use of coyaux and is supported by the use of elaborate wood armpits, which add a picturesque touch to the austerity of the façade. The Art Nouveau furniture in all the rooms and the decoration date from that time with especially beautiful stained glass windows. The interior rooms are decorated with plaster, decorative carpentry and a beautiful set of white marble fireplaces, red, black; ceramic tile floors with large floral motifs Villa Puebla is surrounded by a large wooded park that also includes an old greenhouse. The Villa is listed in the Historical Monuments Inventory and its original furniture has been fully preserved.

Conference: The Territories of Elisée Reclus - From the Alps to Mexico

The conference will take place after the visit the visit to Villa Puebla. Elisée Reclus (1830-1905), great geographer, traveller and anarchist, is a forerunner of ecology. He is the author of a universal geography
unanimously hailed in his time.
His struggles were all at the side of the humble and the oppressed. He was the first in Europe to establish a link between ecology and politics.
Myriame Morel-Deledalle, Chief Curator of Heritage, will tell us about her career and her work.
Myriame Morel-Deledalle is a historian and archaeologist by training. She has curated many temporary exhibitions at the MUCEM National Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations.