Despite confirmations from multiple sources that Cesc Fabregas is leaving Chelsea to move to AS Monaco, the deal is still not done.
Media outlets reported on Monday that Chelsea has agreed to let Fabregas go, with manager Sarri even announcing that the player needs to leave Chelsea.
Some publications reported that the player has agreed terms with Monaco, but others reported that the two teams have not agreed a transfer fee, with Chelsea also apparently holding out for a replacement before agreeing to close the deal.
Monaco said Chelsea’s asking price is too high, and so, at the time of writing, nothing has been announced officially.
Meanwhile Portuguese player Pepe is said to be inching closer to a Monaco move.
Compagnie Monégasque de Banque renews Grimaldi partnership
On Friday 4 January, Compagnie Monégasque de Banque renewed its patronage of The Grimaldi Forum, which has been in place since 2005.
The bank was represented by Mr Etienne Franzi, President of CMB, and Mr Werner Peyer, CEO, expressing its support for the actions and events of the Grimaldi Forum, both professional and cultural, for the year 2019.
But beyond this commitment to the Principality’s congress and cultural centre, Mr Franzi said, “CMB’s active sponsorship policy confirms its desire to contribute to Monaco’s cultural influence. We are very committed to associating ourselves with partnerships which enhance the Principality and our Bank.”
On the Monegasque cultural scene, the support of the Compagnie Monégasque de Banque is not only dynamic, it is plural, as if to better highlight its anchoring in the territory of the Principality since its creation over 40 years ago.
The bank has been working alongside the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra since 2012, even accompanying it on its last tour in Switzerland in 2018, and is also very active at the Oceanographic Museum in Monaco, demonstrating its commitment to environmental and climate issues.
Since 2016 CMB supports the “Open des Artistes”, organised each year by “L’Entrepôt” Gallery. In order to help the selected young talents, CMB even buys a work after each Open to add to its already substantial collection of works of art.
Grimaldi Forum exports FROM CHAGALL TO MALEVITCH exhibition to Madrid
The exhibition has been produced by the Fondation MAPFRE in collaboration with the Grimaldi Forum Monaco, which created in 2015 the original concept.
The From Chagall to Malevich: Art in Revolution exhibition brings together major works by artists who broke with the established models at the beginning of and during the twentieth century and anticipated modernity in a way that had never been seen before in Russia.
In this sense, they became precursors and introduced a new form of seeing, conceiving and depicting reality while in Paris as in Berlin, Moscow or St Petersburg what still prevailed was an academic style that satisfied young artists less and less. With the emergence of electricity, the railway, the motor car and the new forms of communication that led to a completely new language, artists demanded that art advance in the same fashion by drawing inspiration from these new rhythms and ways of life.
In 1898, in What is art? the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy expounded his ideas about his times and the future. He advanced the idea that the artists of the future would not belong as today to a determined class of society; all those who were capable of artistic creation would be artists. “The forms of art will be such as will be open to everyone”.
Under Napoleon III, in 1874, the Salon des Refusés in Paris was already showing new styles and the concerns of Impressionist painters who wanted to transform painting into a new paean to freedom. Unknown names were beginning to emerge that are today closely associated with a wealth of discoveries that marked the beginning of the twentieth century in the field of literature, music and dance but also in the visual arts. Sounds, words, forms… All the preconceived ideas were questioned at the time as innovation began to chip away at the rigid and archaic society.
There were many Russian artists who, at the beginning of the twentieth century, travelled to France in the same way that many French artists looked to eternal Russia in search of new aesthetic stimuli. There was a fruitful exchange of ideas, and the artists mutually influenced each other, and this in turn led to the emergence of schools and movements that concentrated all the energy and creative wealth of the early years of the new century: Impressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Cubo-Futurism, Rayonism, Suprematism and Constructivism; all those forms of art that had been hitherto unknown now had a name.
This exhibition, whose title already suggests artists of the significance of Malevich, also includes works by twenty-seven other great artists: Natalia Goncharova, Lyubov Popova, El Lissitzky, Jean Pougny, Alexander Rodchenko and more. The exhibition is complemented by an illustrated catalogue containing essays by the curator Jean-Louis Prat, Eugenia Petrova and Jean-Claude Marcadé, in addition to biographies and a chronology by Caroline Edde.
Nice Airport closes an eighth year of record growth
With passenger traffic up 4.1% to 13.85 million passengers in 2018, Nice Côte d’Azur is consolidating its position as the second largest airport hub in France. The increase in direct destinations in France and internationally reinforces the natural growth of traffic and connection opportunities for tourists.
Photo: Facebook Aéroport Nice Côte d’Azur
For the eighth consecutive year, Nice Côte d’Azur Airport recorded a fast growing passenger traffic. A year after having crossed the symbolic threshold of 13 million travelers, the second platform in France is close to 14 million, to 13.85 million is a gain of more than half a million, and now continues eight consecutive months a year with passenger traffic greater than one million. At the same time, Nice Côte d’Azur has seen fewer aircraft movements in the past year. This apparent contradiction can be explained by the attractiveness of the destination, which allows companies to achieve record fill rates of up to 99% during the height of summer, while larger, more modern and less polluting aircraft are positioned on the airport to support the growth of traffic.
In the summer of 2018, Nice Côte d’Azur reached an unprecedented 117 direct destinations, including 17 new ones. A growth of the links which will have been continued during the season Winter, marked by 12 novelties. Above all, the growth of passenger traffic during the five months of the Winter season (+ 7.8% versus 2017) will have been higher than that of the Summer season (2.6% versus 2017).
“Our proactive partnership policy with airlines allows us to mitigate more and more the seasonality effect that has historically shaped our business. The fall in royalties in the winter season is a strong marker, unique in France, as well as an additional flow generator, “says Dominique Thillaud, CEO of Aéroports de la Côte d’Azur.
Monaco Yacht Show gives €57,000 to Association Monégasque contre les Myopathies
For 2018, the MYS organisers give a donation of €57,000 to Association Monégasque contre les Myopathies (AMM) for supporting research on Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.
If the MYS has established itself as an important economic and media force for the Principality of Monaco, the MYS Organisers also defends the ethical and human values shared by HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco.
Monaco Yacht Show 2017. Photo: Facebook Monaco Yacht Show
The MYS indeed supports the Monaco-based Charity since its creation in 2001 by parents of children suffering from Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. AMM is today considered as the most proactive charity that has enabled the scientific and medical research to make significant progress over the last decade, notably with the tremendous gains in genetic therapy.
The substantial advancement is made possible with the world-renowned fundraising charity auction, Only Watch. Founded in 2005 by Luc Pettavino, President of AMM, and supported by the MYS Organisers from the very start, the biennial event of one-off luxury timepieces has raised over EUR 35 million in 7 editions to finance numerous scientific and medical research programmes.
Gaëlle Tallarida, Managing Director of the MYS, with Luc Pettavino, President of AMM and Founder of the Only Watch charity auction.
Held under the High Patronage of HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco, the 8th edition of the Only Watch charity sale will be auctioned by Christie’s in Geneva on November 9, 2019 at 2.30pm. The auction will again feature an outstanding collection of unique watches specially created by the finest watch manufacturers and associated to original experiences.
Prior to the auction, a two-month promotional world tour will unveil the 2019 Only Watch collection. The Monaco Yacht Show will play host to the touring exhibition as the inaugural stopover from September 25 to 28, 2019.
Monaco City Council presents Civil Registry stats for 2018
The most frequent service of the Town Hall, the Civil Status – Nationality accompanies the users throughout their life. It represents both the memory of the Principality with registers dating from the sixteenth century and the symbol of modernity including through the electronic identity card or, more recently, the request for online acts.
The Civil Registry’s mission is to record the main events that mark the life of each individual, namely births, marriages and deaths. It is aimed at Monegasques as well as people of foreign nationality born, married and / or divorced in the Principality.
The Monaco City Council presented the figures of the Civil Status – Nationality for the year 2018.
Of these 983 births, 982 were born at the Princess Grace Hospital Maternity Hospital (CHPG) and one in another location. 495 births are from marital unions (called “legitimate”), and 488 children are born out of wedlock. Concerning the place of residence, 227 families were domiciled in Monaco, while the 756 other births concerned parents domiciled outside the Principality – mostly in the communes of Menton (261), Roquebrune-Cap-Martin (103) and Beausoleil (132).
Finally, the top 5 of the most awarded first names in 2018 positions Léa, Victoria, Chloé, Emma and Sofia for the girls and Gabriel, Andrea, Lucas, Aaron and Adam for the boys.
More than 85% of deaths occurred in hospital (82%) or clinic (6%). Of those who died, 253 were domiciled in Monaco and 275 in neighbouring communes.
Finally, 183 marriages were celebrated in the Principality in 2018. Concerning the marriages of persons of Monegasque nationality:
7 marriages united two persons of Monegasque nationality
45 Monegasque men married a foreign woman
33 Monegasque women choose a foreign husband
The number of divorces has slightly increased, with 78 registered divorces in 2018 (compared with 69 in 2017), all nationalities combined.
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