ÎLE DE LOISIRS DE CRÉTEIL Just half an hour from Paris by metro, you can go fishing, kayaking and windsurfing … This outdoor activity centre built around a lake offers many water sports activities, as well as a 1,300 m² pool with waves, water slide, paddling pool and fountains, fitness trails of different levels,cycling trails and play areas. The perfect spot for outdoor lei- sure activities on sunny days! 9 rue Jean Gabin. 94000 Créteil. M Créteil – Université.o 01 48 98 44 56. Daily. Swimming pool open from end of June DOMAINE to end of Aug. Free admission. Admission fee for swimming pool. http://creteil.iledeloisirs.fr DE SCEAUX Jean-Baptiste Colbert, minister to Louis XIV, purchased the estate of Sceaux in 1670. He commissioned the greatest artists of his day: Charles Le Brun for the painted interior decor, Antoine Coysevox and François Girar- MUSÉE DE LA RÉSISTANCE NATIONALE don for the sculptures and André Le Nôtre This museum created in 1985 retraces the for the French-style park. Today, visitors can history of the French Resistance from 1929 rediscover the ‘broderie’ motifs, of box and to 1947. Its vast collection of objects and coloured gravel imagined by the gardener documents, particularly photographs, bears of Versailles. The chateau (built in the 19th witness to the values and actions of this on the site of that of Colbert, destroyed in movement, which is inextricably linked to 1803) presents its newly laid out permanent the history of 20th-century France. In 2020, collections. It presents the history of the the museum moved to a brand new 1,000 m² estate and its successive owners. In addition site, and the presentation of its collections to the chateau, you can visit the Orang- was redesigned to highlight the challenges ery, completed in 1686 by Jules Hardouin- involved in the remembrance of the Resist- Mansart, where sculptures from the time of ance. The establishment is one of the sites Colbert are kept and where a music festival of the ‘Musée de la Résistance Nationale’ and the Petites Nuits de Sceaux are held; network in France, created in 1965 at the the Pavillon de l’Aurore (1672) and its dome initiative of historians and veterans of the painted by Charles Le Brun; the renovated Resistance. stables, which host temporary exhibitions. 40 quai Victor Hugo. 94500 Champigny-sur- The park itself (181 hectares), labelled Eve® Marne. RER A Champigny. Reopening (ecological green space) and ‘Remarkable scheduled for October 2020. Days, opening Garden’, welcomes cultural events all year times and rates variable, contact for round. information. www.musee-resistance.com Domaine Départemental de Sceaux. 92330 Sceaux. RER B Parc de Sceaux. 01 41 87 29 50. Daily, except on, Ja, 1 May, 25 Dec and the first 2 weeks in Jan. Chateau and Stables: March to Oct, 2pm- 6.30pm; Nov to Feb, 1pm-5pm. Park: daily. Permanent collections/full rate: €4. Permanent collections and temporary exhibitions/full rate: €5. Park: free. https://domaine-de-sceaux.hauts-de-seine.fr 78| IN AND AROUND MONTPARNASSE