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Aubagne
Aubagne railway station
Aubagne
Location within Provence-A.-C.d'A. region  Aubagne
Administration
Country	France
Region	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Department	Bouches-du-Rhône
Arrondissement	Marseille
Canton	Aubagne-Est and Aubagne-Ouest
Intercommunality	Pays d'Aubagne et de l'Etoile
Mayor	Daniel Fontaine (2008–2014)
Statistics
Elevation	74–701 m (243–2,300 ft) (avg. 101 m or 331 ft)
Land area1	54.9 km2 (21.2 sq mi)
Population2	46,093  (2008)
- Density	840 /km2 (2,200 /sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	13005/ 13400
Dialling code	0442
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Coordinates: 43°17′27″N 5°34′15″E / 43.2908°N 5.5708°E / 43.2908; 5.5708

Aubagne is a commune located 17 km (11 mi) east of Marseille in the Bouches-du-Rhône department in southern France.

The French Foreign Legion has its headquarters there. Public transport has been free at the point of use since the year 2000.

Geography[link]

It is located in the Huveaune valley and surrounded by the mountain ranges of Garlaban, and Sainte-Baume to the north and Douard to the south.

Population[link]

Transport[link]

The Gare d'Aubagne railway station is served by regional trains towards Marseille and Toulon. Aubagne was the first commune in France to be completely surrounded by motorways: the autoroutes A50 Marseille-Toulon, A52 Aubagne-Aix-en-Provence and the connecting motorway A501.

A 9 km tram network is planned, Line 1 from the station to Le Charrel and Line 2 from the station to La Penne-sur-Huveaune. Construction will start in 2012 for opening from 2014.^[1]

Aubagne made Public transport by bus zero-fare in May 2009^[2][3]

Personalities[link]

• François-Marie, marquis de Barthélemy (1747–1830), Director of the First French Republic
• Alain Bernard (born 1983), swimmer
• François-Urbain Domergue (1745–1810), grammarian and journalist
• Marcel Pagnol (1895–1974), novelist, playwright and filmmaker
• Count Honoré Joseph Antoine Ganteaume (1755 - 1818), French admiral.

In popular culture[link]

Aubagne is referred to frequently in the film Manon des Sources. It is the birthplace of Marcel Pagnol, the French novelist, playwright and filmmaker who wrote the novel on which the film is based.

See also[link]

France portal

• Communes of the Bouches-du-Rhône department

References[link]

• INSEE

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Aubagne

• (French) Official site

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Gérald De Palmas (born Gérald Gardrinier, on October 14, 1967 in Saint-Denis, Réunion) is a French singer.

Biography[link]

Early life[link]

Gérald De Palmas was born in France. His father was a land surveyor from Britanny and his mother was a French teacher from Réunion. At the age of 10, De Palmas' family left Réunion, to live in Aix-en-Provence, France. At the age of 13, he discovered ska music, and became a fan of the UK band The Specials. Then he met Étienne Daho and formed a group called Les Max Valentin together with Edith Fambuena and Jean-Louis Pierot. They released the single 'Les Maux Dits' in 1987, but De Palmas was uncomfortable with this group, and went solo. After seven years of writing and singing solo, Da Palmas won a talent contest on the French M6 TV network.

Career[link]

In 1994, Gérald De Palmas or just De Palmas as an artistic namereleased his first album La dernière Année (The Last Year), which contains the hit song Sur la Route (On the Road). He won a Victoires de la Musique award in 1996.

De Palmas released his second album Les Lois de la Nature (Laws of Nature) in 1997. The album was less successful than his debut album, probably due to the dramatic change in his style. He was in the slumps for 2 and a half years, until 2000. That's when Jean-Jacques Goldman restored his confidence and wrote a song for him titled J'en rêve encore (I still dream about it).

De Palmas composed and wrote 10 of the 12 songs in his third album Marcher dans le sable (Walking in the sand). 2002 was the year he was reborn as a star, as he won the Victoires de la Musique and the NRJ Music Awards, while playing more than 180 concerts. His songs even crossed the Atlantic, when Céline Dion sang his hit song Tomber (falling) in English, titled Ten Days. At the end of that year, Live 2002 was released on DVD and on CD, to commemorate his great tour of 2002.

Two years later, De Palmas returned with his fourth album Un homme sans racines (A man without roots), a more intimate album with less music, but still in the same melancholic style. After having problems with Universal, Gérald de Palmas is going to come back in November 2009 with his new album of which the first single is expected to be aired in May.

Personal life[link]

Gérald de Palmas is married and has two children, a boy, Victor (born in 1996) and a girl, Rose (born in 2003).

Awards[link]

• NRJ Music Awards :
  • Best francophone male artist (2003)
  • Best francophone album (Marcher dans le sable) (2002)

• Victoires de la musique :
  • Best male artist of the year (2002)
  • Male revelation of the year (1996)

Discography[link]

Albums[link]

Live albums

Singles[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• (French) Official website
• Biography of Gérald De Palmas, from Radio France Internationale
• Gérald de Palmas' music videos from his album "Sortir" : "Mon Coeur ne bat plus" & "Dans une Larme"