Kings of pétanque, assessment of Renfe, the “Venus” of Sète in Paris… the essential news in the region

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Firefighter and… midwives

#P-O. "An extraordinary moment experienced by a team of firefighters from the center of Perpignan Sud". So communicated the Sdis of the Pyrénées-Orientales on Friday after a young woman gave birth a few days ago in the fire brigade ambulance called a little earlier by the future father. A first for the team of firefighters who came first to bring the mother-to-be to the maternity ward. In May, the Gard firefighters used the same composure and professionalism to accompany a mother in Saint-Hilaire-de-Brethmas.

The kings of pétanque battle it out

#MONTPELLIER. Place for the finals this Sunday after the group stages of the Mondial Montpellier 3M pétanque competition played on Saturday on the grounds of the Place des Grands-Hommes and at Odyséeum. Around twenty world champions are there including Dylan Rocher, the "star" French, Stéphane Robineau, Henri Lacroix and the Italian Diego Rizzi. But not only. If France remains the dominant nation in the discipline, it now faces considerable competition. Teams from Morocco, Tunisia and Madagascar are lined up this weekend. Pétanque is also developing in Asian countries and players from Canada and the Netherlands are also present.

Six million euros for floating solar

#MONTPELLIER/SETE. SolarinBlue and its partners (Technip energies, the University of Montpellier, the Oceanographic Observatory of Banyuls-sur-Mer) have just obtained funding of 6 M€ within the France 2030 framework operated by Ademe (The Environment and Energy Management Agency), to develop "Méga Sète", the first Mediterranean offshore solar park launched by the Montpellier start-up. The company, hosted in the southern port of France in the Occitanie region, announced its ambitions a few months ago: to become within 3 years the world leader in floating offshore solar, having "vocation to find its place in the energy mix of coastal areas all over the world", indicated Aurélien Crocq, director of SolarinBlue. Méga Sète, with a power of 1MWp, could produce 1,300 MWh per year. Designed to withstand a 10 m swell, the park would be operational at the end of 2025, on an area of ​​1 ha, 2 km from the Sète coast. Electricity will be transported to land by an underwater cable.

Today's figure: 620,000

#FRANCE/SPAIN. In number of passengers transported, the results of one year of operation of the Madrid-Marseille and Barcelona-Lyon railway lines by Renfe. The Spanish company which puts four TGVs on the rails per day has been established in the French landscape since July 13, 2023. A market that the operator considers a priority in its international development, with in particular a connection to Paris… hoped for the year 2025.

Of "Venus" from Sète to Paris

#HERAULT. There are six of them and they are from Sète. They are the "Venus de Milo" which take place between the columns of the facade of the Palais Bourbon in Paris. The place which hosts the National Assembly also offers this exhibition of colorful sculptures until September 22. Works by Laurent Perbos, professor at the Fine Arts of Sète, these statues are "a logical choice" to represent the neoclassical city and sport. "I wanted to give power to women by representing them as goddesses of beauty and by making sport elegant", summarizes the artist’ . Unlike the statue exhibited at the Louvre, all the Venuses have arms. Except one, to highlight the Olympic Games as a whole.

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