ON THE STREET WHERE SERIZIER SOUGHT SHELTER AND WHAT WAS LEFT OF HIS BATTALION PRESUMABLY DISPERSED...
This well-designed residence for seniors one of four that are almost side by side with three others nearby:
(Rue du Château des Rentiers)
Fixing pipes: Upkeep is excellent. Notice also the clean street.
Help for someone who has had an accident.
During the heat wave of 2020 the City distributed electric fans and bottles of water. During covid the caretaker disinfected floors and door handles three times a day and placed an antiseptic solution and paper towels in the entry. The City distributed masks with filters.
Posters at the entry :
Accompaniment for seniors who fear withdrawing cash from ATM machines (the service is free and tips are forbidden) / Excursions outside Paris, the fee based on income.
Free activities for residents include workshops
in crafts and writing, yoga, a chorale, theater and dance
and visits with a lecturer to the Musée d'Orsay.
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The mayor, Jerôme Courbet, comes for the Christmas apéritif. He tells residents what City Hall has done in the year and what it plans for the future.
The caretaker, Cindy Laurent, is to his right. Members of his team surround them.
He gives everyone a box of excellent chocolats and speaks personally to whoever comes up to him.
When the elevator is stalled and the muscular young men hired to help the elderly carry groceries are not present, Madame Laurent takes them up groceries up five flights of stairs.
When a person threw himself out of a window in sight of some of the residents, she had City Hall send two psychiatrists to meet with them. She thought particularly of Vietnamese and Cambodian refugees, for whom the tragedy might evoke terrible memories.
It is always reassuring to see Madame Laurent in her kitchen at night.
"The residents are like my family,"
she said with tears in her eyes
when an aged man died.
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