Let's Go to Italy
A "metagram," of which Jacques Bens is its best specialist having made
it into a unique poetic form, is a series of words which only differ from each
other by a single letter. We can thus pass from one word to another, change one
word for another, go from one word to another, by modifying only a single
letter at each step. A metagram is perfect when the two chosen words share no
common letters and there are fewer intermediary words than there are
transformed letters. There are a few examples.
And here is one which allows us to change wine into water: [Trans. Note: this
one only works in French]
**VIN-VAN-VAU (of "a vau-l'eau)-EAU**
Leaving Paris, we can easily reach Parma:
**PARIS-PARIE-PARME-PARMA**
It is not overly easy to reach Genes (there are a couple routes):
**PARIS-PARES-PANES (or PERES)-PENES-GENES**
Or to Turin:
**PARIS-TARIS-TARIN-TURIN**
Figure these out:
1. Go to Capri
2. Go to Milan
3. Can you go to Milan via Dijon?
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Do you Know Paris and its History?
When we find ourselves in place de la Concord and look towards the Tuileries
and the Arc de Triomphe de Carrousel, we can find the Orangerie:
a) To the left
b) To the right
Rambuteau was:
a) A farmer-general
b) An architect
c) The Prefect of the Seine
The celebrated Bal Mabille was situated on the:
a) Blvd des Batognolles
b) Blvd Beaumarchais
c) Blvd de Italiens
d) Ave Montaigne
e) Blvd de Montparnasse
The cedar of Lebanon was planted in 1734 in the Jardin des Plantes (then the
Jardin du Roi) by:
a) Jussieu
b) Daubenton
c) Buffon
