Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/06/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You're right Nathan, I guess this grandeur no longer has a reason to be - and my fellow citizens recently voted a much shorter jogging president since. I simply hope the bottles were bought as futures, and auctioned with a good premium used to help the city organise better pedestrian areas, and safer cycling paths.. And to get back to Leica, there's glass that gathers value in the course of time, depending on what's inside ;-) Yours Philippe Nathan Wajsman wrote: > I guess that's why he did not finish all the wine... > > I heard about the auction of the stash from the Mayor's office. For us > Calvinist northern Europeans, the grandeur in which elected officials > live in France and elsewhere in southern Europe (and of course the > pomp and circumstance associated with the US presidency) is very > strange and actually off-putting. The city hall of Copenhagen is also > a grand building, but the mayor is expected to cycle to work...In the > past decade or two, most of the scandals that felled Danish > politicians have involved behaviour that would be entirely normal > elsewhere, mostly having to do with living too grandly. > > Nathan > > Steve Unsworth wrote: > >> Chirac was a beer drinker wasn't he? >> >> Steve >> >> >> On 5/6/07 13:43, "Philippe Amard" <phamard@numericable.fr> wrote: >> >> >> >> >>> BTW ;: the current mayor put some of JC 's wine cellar on auction last >>> year; an amazing list in truth, means he left some BTW. >>> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> > >