Day: 17 April 2018

Charlotte Casiraghi, President of the Monaco Philosophical Meetings, and Robert Maggiori, philosopher and founding member, together presented their book “Archipelago of the passions” at the Princess Grace Theatre on Thursday, April 12.

Published by Éditions du Seuil on March 1, 2018, this treatise on passions, is the result of many conversations between the former student and her teacher, who became friends over time. It is built around forty passions, such as: Love, Cruelty, Patience, Modesty, Disgust, Adoration, Admiration, Arrogance, Mercy, Fraternity, Sweetness, Boredom, Sadness, and Jealousy.

“Everyone can appropriate the book and discover themselves in all the chapters, the list of emotions is long and other entries could have been added. In this sense, there is no end, the rest remains open, Charlotte Casiraghi said.

Robert Maggiori insisted on the very personal aspect of the book: “no text has been written without our being fully involved.”

Together, they hope that “Archipelago of passions” will be accessible to all because:
“No one can say that they are a stranger to philosophy, it does not provide advice but it helps to understand oneself. Everyone is concerned.”

With the approach of the summer season, Ministers Marie-Pierre Gramaglia and Jean Castellini on the morning of Tuesday, April 17, met the traders in Larvotto to discuss with them various topics of interest concerning the Portier Cove land extension project.

Topics included the work schedule for the project, the monitoring of water quality at the popular beach and future renovation work.

“These meetings are always very useful. They offer members of the Government the opportunity to interact directly with those who offer services at the beach at Larvotto, which is a major centre of summer activity in the Principality,” said Jean Castellini, Minister of Finance and Economy.

Marie-Pierre Gramaglia, who holds the portfolio for Infrastructure, added: “It was important to remind the merchants of Larvotto that the state is attentive to the smooth running of the extension works at sea and rigorously controls the bathing water, the quality of which must be optimal.”

A rare BMW 507 that was first owned by Greece’s last monarch, King Constantine II, will be offered  for sale at Bonhams’ Monaco auction on May 11. The 1959-vintage car could sell for up to 2.5 million euros, according to estimates.

The 507 roadster was produced in a run of 252 cars, although the original intention was to build 5,000.

King Constantine sold the 507 in 1961, and after falling into considerable disrepair over time it has been with its current owner since 1989.

A three-year restoration by 507 specialist Brummer was undertaken at a cost of 300,000 Deutschmarks, since when 50,000 kilometres were added to the clock as the car was entered into a number of competing, including four times in Italy’s Mille Miglia. The original licence plates for the car, a simple ’36,’ are also included in the sale.

Following the offer from AS Monaco to refund ticket and travel costs to supporters who watched the 7-1 massacre at Paris Saint-Germain on Sunday, April 15, the official supporters’ club has urged fans to reject the club’s offer to reimburse them.

The Supporters’ Club went further in a message to its members in suggesting that Monaco players perform better when playing for their national teams. The Club said that if fans turned down the offer of a refund it would demonstrate their love of the club.

In a Facebook posting on Monday, the club wrote: “Yesterday evening, like two years ago in Lyon, our players took themselves for tennis players. That’s intolerable in our eyes.”
The 7-1 defeat of last year’s Ligue 1 champions still leaves Monaco in second place, four points on front of L:yon and Marseille, and with the chance of redemption in the group stages of the Champions League.

The Agoa Sanctuaries in the West Indies and Pelagos in the Mediterranean have signed a memorandum of understanding during Monaco Ocean Week, in the presence of HSH Prince Albert and HE Mr Xavier Sticker, Delegate for the Environment.

The Memorandum is to share good practices, promote exchanges and set up joint initiatives. These two Sanctuaries, the largest French marine protected areas, have a common goal: the protection of marine mammals.

The signing ceremony took place at the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco on Friday, April 13, in the presence of HSH Prince Albert, HE Mr Bernard Fautrier, Minister Plenipotentiary and Deputy Chairman of the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation, HE Mr Xavier Sticker, Ambassador-Delegate for the Environment, Mr Cyril Gomez, President of the Meeting of the Parties to the Pelagos Agreement, Ms Fannie Dubois, Executive Secretary of the Pelagos Agreement and her Deputy, Ms Costanza Favilli, and Mr Robert Calcagno, Director General of the Oceanographic Institute of Monaco.

The Agoa Sanctuary and the Pelagos Sanctuary are two marine protected areas of the same kind, Marine Mammal Sanctuaries, which have the same objectives: to guarantee a favourable conservation status for marine mammals by protecting them, as well as their habitats, against direct or indirect negative impacts of human activities.

In recent years, cooperation between the two Sanctuaries has been strengthened under the auspices of the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation, and during the passage of the Yersin ship in the Sanctuary Agoa in Martinique as part of the Explorations of Monaco in October 2017.

The Agoa Sanctuary for Marine Mammals in the French West Indies covers the entire exclusive economic zone of the French West Indies (Martinique, Guadeloupe, Saint-Martin and Saint-Barthélemy), covering an area of 143,256 square kilometres. It is one of the largest French marine protected areas. Its governance is ensured by a management council bringing together 53 local actors of the sea: elected representatives, professional fishermen, recreational users, tourist operators, environmental protection associations, experts and state services.