Chapter 38 Big Blue Hotel

Someone was recently dismantling a large nineteenth-century printing factory on the street where I lived, the Press Office for the Gazette.Because the building's facade is listed as a historic building, the interior walls of the building needed to be demolished.I am sorry, but one also hears this noise in this book, the clatter of the pickaxe, especially the vibration of the boulder being swung down by the lifting of the boulder, and the cries of the Arab workers who must Before the iron chain lifted the boulder and hit the wall, he tried his best to clear the field.A three-star hotel will be built here.The name of the hotel does not live up to its name: "Latitide"—that's the same as the Mediterranean.The workers in the printing factory have all left.The very pleasant, powerful, soft and harmless sound of the printing presses running each morning and sometimes all night during the special session of Parliament was never heard again.They will also build two additional floors.The printing factory was originally not high, no higher than the floor where I lived, and only as high as a three-story building.From Jan's room, through the opening of the patio, it was possible to see what time it was on the big clock on the bell tower of Saint-Germain-des-Prés.No more, it's over.From 11:55 on Friday, December 18, 1986, a large concrete wall blocked the opening towards the clock.The hotel will hold half of the investment of the Saint Bernard Bonaparte group.The facade of the building is reminiscent of the appearance of a large company in the bustling business district of Broadway.There are some fluted bronze columns on it, and some nice statues of angels.The hotel will open in the spring of 1987.There are three hundred rooms.Three Star.There is also such a title: "Latidide".Why not call it "Big Blue Hotel"③.The lack of culture in the real estate sales business is not difficult to detect.This hotel is in the heart of the sixth arrondissement, and they named it like a big cheap luxury hotel in the Languedoc region of France.It's something Bouygues made.You can't pronounce this word after a while, and the meaning is blurred.One might think that there is a meaning in it, but there is none.Over the past fifty years, he has made many concrete things, and suddenly he came up with such a hotel.Poor Bouygues.

① Latitudes (Latitudes), the original meaning is full latitude ②Saint-Germain-des-Prés, the oldest church in Paris, was built in 990-1014 and has the oldest bell tower. There are tombstones of Descartes and Boileau in the church. ③Military uniforms and work clothes are generally blue, named after this, which is an allegory of modern buildings with monotonous tones, ugly and ugly. ④ Languedoc region, in northwestern France.