Enrich Your Itineraries
Birds (bis) and the Departments of Paris
To follow up on my game with the birds of Paris a lecturer, Mr. J.
Hardouin, also found fifteen other street names which evoke the names of birds,
only if we disregard spelling, but regard only sound and if we drop any first
names.
We also get la rue de la Py [magpie] (in the 20th), le impasse Canart
[duck] (in the 12th) and Charles-Lecocq [the cock], Honore-Chevalier [cheval =
horse], Edmond-Flamand [flamingo], Achille-Martinet [swift], Georges-Bizet
[culver or little pigeon], Paul-de-Kock [cock], Cognacq-Jay [jay], Mont-Faucon
[falcon], Haie-coq [chicken], Butte-aux-Cailles [quails], Reynaldo-Hahn
(chicken in German) et also Jules-et-Victor-Cousin (this isn't a bird, but it
does fly!).
Mr. Hardouin proposed also a list of streets which honour half of the
departments of France (57 exactly). Some of these streets are well known (for
example, rue des Pyrenees, place des Vosges, etc.) but they are mostly
miniscule arteries.
Nine departments are supplied by the pools of la Villette and the quais de
canal de l'Ourcq. These are the quais de Loire, de l'Oise, de la Marne, de la
Gironde, de la Charente, de l'Allier, du Lot and de l'Ainse (the last one is,
in fact, in Pantin, but there is also a rue de l'Ainse beside quai de l'Oise).
Six of these streets are situated on the same island, beside an island on
which all the streets are named after painters. These are the six streets we
invite you to find.
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Travels in France
Utilising the "metagrammic" technique, which consists, if you recall, of
going from one word to another through changing one letter at each stage, go
from Paris to:
