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Stations: an Occitanie entity
#SNCF –A Regional Directorate for Occitanie stations of SNCF Gares & Connexions has just been created. Its headquarters are based in Montpellier and nearly 300 employees have been working throughout the region since January 1, 2025. Hilaire Hautem, former deputy territorial director at SNCF Réseau Occitanie, is taking over the management of this entity. SNCF Gares & Connexions is responsible for the design, operation, maintenance and development of the 292 passenger railway stations and stops in Occitanie.
Today's figure: 2,278
#NÎMES – According to Capital, which relies on figures from Fnaim and trends from the Clameur Observatory, the sale price in Nîmes will be 2,278 euros per square meter on January 1, 2025. Over three months, a decrease of 3.4% was observed and over one year of 4.5%. The sale price of a house is 2,871 euros per square meter compared to 2,003 euros per square meter for an apartment. For rental, over the last four quarters, the median rent, all surfaces combined, in Nîmes reached 12 euros per square meter for an apartment.
200% Deposit Bonus up to €3,000 180% First Deposit Bonus up to $20,000Juliette Trey, first woman to head the Fabre Museum
#MONTPELLIER – In May 2025, Michel Hilaire will end his tenure at the head of the Fabre Museum in Montpellier, having been its curator since 1992. This Monday, January 20, 2025, the Montpellier Metropolis revealed the person who will take over. Juliette Trey will become the first woman to head the Fabre Museum since it opened to the public in 1828. “General Curator of Heritage, she will take over the management of the Fabre Museum in Montpellier in May 2025”, explains the Metropolis. Her career has taken her to the National Museum of the Palaces of Versailles and Trianon, to the National Institute of Art History, and to the graphic arts department of the Louvre Museum.
100% French Paracetamol: the State in Support
#TOULOUSE – The 100% French paracetamol plant Ipsophène, which is due to open in 2025 in Toulouse, will receive state aid. Indeed, Isophène is one of the seven projects supported by France 2030 for the relocation of the production of essential medicines. Of its overall project estimated at 28 million euros, the Toulouse company will receive 3.6 million euros from the State. Isophène had already received 4.2 million euros from the Occitanie Region. With an announced production of 3,400 tonnes, the plant should be able to meet 40% of French paracetamol consumption. The Isophène company plans to market its medicine in 2026 on its site which will be installed in a disused ArianeGroup building, on the island of Empalot, south of the Toulouse ring road. Paracetamol will be produced using an eco-responsible technology patented by Ipsomedic that optimizes the synthesis of paracetamol by reducing waste and energy consumption.
The thriller of the ex-robber
#HERAULT – In 2023, Michel Ucciani published Corse, en prison, his first book about his life in jail. Today, the ex-robber, who has been living in Mèze for a few years, is releasing his first thriller, Sur les chemins de la mauvaise vie (éditions du Cursinu). “My experience of prison and robberies was useful for the first pages, but the rest of the story takes place elsewhere and on other themes” , explains Michel Ucciani. Throughout these 230 pages, we follow the adventures of the Corsican Ange Colonna (he has the same surname as Yvan, a great friend of Michel Ucciani) who meets a godfather of the Cosa Nostra in prison. The author admits to already working on a sequel.
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