Jean Prosper Gay-Para sur l'optimisme et l'ouverture mon s Libanais vers "une société nsommatn ensoleillée" - mediaclip

Contents:

• PERD VUE ... JEAN-PROSPER GAY-PARA : L PL BELL NUS LIBANAIS, C'T LUI(PHOTOS)
• DISPARN L’ANIMATR S NUS BEYROUTH, PROSPER GAY-PARA, N’T PL
• GUY GAY-PARA
• JEAN PROSPER GAY-PARA SUR L'OPTIMISME ET L'OUVERTURE MON S LIBANAIS VERS "UNE SOCIéTé NSOMMATN ENSOLEILLéE"
• JEAN-PROSPER GAY-PARA
• GAY-PARA – MA TRAVERSéE DU SIèCLE

PERD VUE ... JEAN-PROSPER GAY-PARA : L PL BELL NUS LIBANAIS, C'T LUI(PHOTOS)

Personne n’a oublié Jean-Prosper Gay-Para. «La richse l’homme, c’t garr la cursé l’pr», fa partie s proverb préférés Prosper Gay-Para.

Prosper, fils d’Alphonse Gay-Para et Nada Modié, t né le 24 avril 1914 dans une fale rtratrs.

DISPARN L’ANIMATR S NUS BEYROUTH, PROSPER GAY-PARA, N’T PL

Celui qui a transformé l nus beyrouth, Prosper Gay-Para, PGP pour l tim, s’t étet à l’âge 89 ans à l’hôpal Rizk, s su d’une pnmonie.

Pour cet événement annuel, lancé en 1956, Gay-Para ava misé sur ux idé: présenter un spectacle édie ançaise et privilégier le folklore libanais. Cette affaire ava développé la productn mile Liban…En 1967, Gay-Para t parti pour la France pour ouvrir un hôtel, Le Byblos, à Sat-Tropez.

GUY GAY-PARA

The young actrs already had a huge fan base, cludg Jean-Prosper Gay-Para, a Lebane entreprenr who had the Byblos Hotel, named after one of the olst ports of Lebanon, built hope of woog Bardot. And while she attend the flamboyant guratn, much to Gay-Para's disappotment, she didn't show any tert him.

Gay-Para's visn for the Byblos was a Provençal hamlet wh stuc aprit and salmon-pk hued buildgs terspersed wh small squar planted wh swayg palms that slope down towards the pool. In Gay-Para’s day, part of the spa was actually a gentlemen’s n of somewhat secret gogs-on straight out of A Thoand and One Nights.

JEAN PROSPER GAY-PARA SUR L'OPTIMISME ET L'OUVERTURE MON S LIBANAIS VERS "UNE SOCIéTé NSOMMATN ENSOLEILLéE"

Guy Gay-Para t un énomiste et homme d'affair an-libanais, né à Beyrouth le 20 août 1950 et mort le 7 octobre 2007. Son père, Jean Prosper Gay-Para (1914-2003), fut, dans l anné 1950-1960, l'un s pl importants homm d'affair du Liban et le créatr, en France, du Byblos, le famx établissement Sat-Tropez. Par BOULOS JEAN-CLAUDE, le 30 mai 2003 à 00h00 Jean Prosper Gay-Para, un homme à qui le Liban do beup dans l’expansn son dtrie hôtelière et qui t mort dans sa quatre-vgt-dixième année dans l’timé faiale et lo s honnrs qui lui étaient d.

Enre, no avons dansé dans l’timé du Corsaire, le night-club du Palm Beach (transformé pl tard en Théâtre 10 hr) étns un groupe d’universair le vendredi 25 mars 1955 à l’guratn du rtrant night-club L v du Roy, dont Prosper Gay-Para alla faire le night-club le pl célèbre du mon, vérable stutn natnale libanaise que le mon entier no a envié avons admiré le urage fou Prosper quand il a ouvert le Byblos Sat-Tropez, portant sur la Riviera ançaise, le nom prtigix du pl vix port notre Phénicie historique.

JEAN-PROSPER GAY-PARA

Jean Prosper Gay-Para, un homme à qui le Liban do beup dans l’expansn son dtrie hôtelière et qui t mort dans sa quatre-vgt-dixième année dans l’timé faiale et lo s honnrs qui lui étaient d.

She also spired a smten Lebane bsman named Jean-Prosper Gay-Para to build a hotel and nightclub the place that Bardot had e to love hop of woog the actrs. Opened 1967, the Byblos Hotel and s on-se nightclub, L Cav du Roy, quickly beme synonymo wh celebry joie vivre (Gay-Para was unable to w Bardot’s affectns, but she did show up for the openg ftivi, which spanned three days and totaled 700 guts). Although high-society photographer Slim Aarons never shot at Byblos, his axm about the plac he ptured, “attractive people attractive plac dog attractive thgs, ” easily appli to Byblos and L Jon at Hotel Byblos, 1978Photo: Edward Qun / Courty of Hotel ByblosGay-Para, who sold the properti to French bsman Sylva Floirat a few months after their guratn, imaged his hotel would remble a fairy tale–like mix of a Provençal hamlet and the ty port of Byblos, one of the olst villag Lebanon, and which uld rival a palace One Thoand and One Nights.

It’s fair to say Gay-Para achieved his dream: Perched on the hight hill St.

GAY-PARA – MA TRAVERSéE DU SIèCLE

Not your average csh, to be sure, but the bedazzled, distant, hopels love that Jean-Prosper Gay-Para, the billnaire Lebane hotelier, harboured for the ptivatg and pric actrs Brigte Bardot 1960, at the height of her fame. On a terrace the Lebane port cy of Byblos, found by the Phoenicians, Gay-Para told a iend of his fatuatn.

“So build a hotel St Tropez worthy of Bardot, ” suggted the iend, and that is jt what Gay-Para proceed to do. The fantasy hotel that Gay-Para nstcted homage to Bardot was somethg not seen before on the Côte d’Azur. Ined, you have to look hard to fd all the treasur, maly early Christian sculpture, that Gay-Para stalled, but they are worth seekg out: rved stone tab doors om Palmyra the otherwise low-key lobby; the arrtg Vallris ceramics of Roger Capron and Jean Derval; and the tritely rved, 17th-century wood ceilg and walls of the Salon Libanais, now a treatment room the soothg Sisley spa.

Two months after he opened the hotel wh a celebry-packed party for more than 700 guts, hosted by Bardot and Mireille Darc, Gay-Para lnched the hotel’s fabled club L Cav du Roy. In June 1967, the Six-Day War broke out and soon after Gay-Para returned to Beit to look after his terts there. In September of that year, self-ma lnaire bsman Sylva Floirat ma what he though was a risory offer for the hotel, but Gay-Para accepted and he and his fay took on.