Carrefour
Carrefour S.A. (French pronunciation: [kaʁfuʁ]) is a French multinational retailer headquartered in Boulogne Billancourt, France, in the Hauts-de-Seine Department near Paris. It is one of the largest hypermarket chains in the world (with 1,452 hypermarkets at the end of 2011), the fourth largest retail group in the world in terms of revenue (after Wal-Mart, Tesco and Costco), and the third in profit (after Wal-Mart and Tesco). Carrefour operates mainly in Europe, Argentina, Bahrain, Brazil, China, Dominican Republic, Iran, United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Qatar, Lebanon, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, but also has shops in North Africa and other parts of Asia, with most stores being of smaller size than hypermarket or even supermarket. Carrefour means "crossroads" and "public square" in French. Previously the company head office was in Levallois-Perret, also in the Paris suburbs. The company is a component of the Euro Stoxx 50 stock market index.
History
The first Carrefour store opened on 1 January 1958 in suburban Annecy near a crossroads (carrefour in French). The group was created by Marcel Fournier, Denis Defforey and Jacques Defforey and grew into a chain from this first sales outlet. In 1999 it merged with Promodès, known as Continent, one of its major competitors in the French market.
Carrefour (disambiguation)
Carrefour is a French word meaning road intersection.
Carrefour may also refer to:
Carrefour, Ouest
Carrefour (Haitian Creole: Kafou; pronounced: [kafu]) is a largely residential commune in the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area. The city had a population of 373,916 at the 2003 Census, and was officially estimated to have grown to 511,345 inhabitants in 2015. It is mostly a bedroom community for those who work in central Port-au-Prince. The neighborhood is very poor and ill-serviced, however, as of recently, small-scale construction has gone on in the area along with street renovations.
Before the exile of Jean-Claude Duvalier, Carrefour was viewed as a Haitian tourist destination.
Carrefour, Cité Soleil, Delmas, Port-au-Prince, in relation to one another
Carrefour, Cité Soleil, Delmas, Port-au-Prince, in relation to one another
Computer generated aerial view of Carrefour and Port-au-Prince
Computer generated aerial view of Carrefour and Port-au-Prince
List of communal sections of Carrefour.
- Morne Chandelle
- Platon Dufréné
- Taïfer
- Procy
- Coupeau
- Bouvier
- Lavalle
- Berly
- Bizoton
- Thor
- Rivière Froide
- Malanga
- Corail Thor
'Carrefour' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:
I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
Actors: James Bell (actor), Tom Conway (actor), Alan Edmiston (actor), James Ellison (actor), Darby Jones (actor), Sir Lancelot (actor), Norman Mayes (actor), Jieno Moxzer (actor), Clinton Rosemond (actor), Arthur Walker (actor), Martin Wilkins (actor), Melvin Williams (actor), Doris Ake (actress), Edith Barrett (actress), Richard Abrams (actor),
Plot: A young Canadian nurse (Betsy) comes to the West Indies to care for Jessica, the wife of a plantation manager (Paul Holland). Jessica seems to be suffering from a kind of mental paralysis as a result of fever. When she falls in love with Paul, Betsy determines to cure Jessica even if she needs to use a voodoo ceremony, to give Paul what she thinks he wants.
Keywords: alcoholism, b-movie, based-on-novel, black-magic, boat, brother-brother-relationship, calypso, canadian, caribbean, claim-in-titleGenres: Horror,
Taglines: See this strange, strange story of a woman whose lure set brother against brother; whose love caused hate - and whose beauty bowed to the will of an evil spell in whose power we must refuse to believe - EVEN IF IT'S TRUE! the blackest magic of voodoo keeps this beautiful woman alive...yet DEAD! Blonde Beauty - Doomed to be one of the walking dead! SEE This strange and startling story of a woman to whom it all happened! She's alive... yet dead! She's dead... yet alive! Who said the dead don't walk? See it happen--right before your startled eyes...in the screen sensation that rips the mask from the darkest secrets of forbidden voodoo!
Quotes:
Paul Holland: It's easy enough to read the thoughts of a newcomer. Everything seems beautiful because you don't understand. Those flying fish, they're not leaping for joy, they're jumping in terror. Bigger fish want to eat them. That luminous water, it takes its gleam from millions of tiny dead bodies. The glitter of putrescence. There is no beauty here, only death and decay.::Betsy Connell: You can't really believe that.::Paul Holland: Everything good dies here. Even the stars.Mrs. Rand: Don't worry about a sugar planter. Give him a horse and he'll ride to his own funeral.
Betsy Connell: [Betsy Connell and Mr. Holland are walking through the garden together] Why was the maid crying?::Paul Holland: I'm not sure I can make you understand. [He stops and points at an odd-looking sculpture in the garden]::Paul Holland: Do you know what this is?::Betsy Connell: A figure of Saint Sebastian.::Paul Holland: Yes. But it was once the figurehead of a slave ship. That's where our people came from. From the misery and pain of slavery. For generations they found life a burden. That's why they still weep when a child is born and make merry at a burial... I've told you, Miss Connell: this is a sad place.
Betsy Connell: Frankly, it was something of a shock to see my patient that way for the first time. Nobody had told me Mrs. Holland was a... mental case.::Paul Holland: A "mental case"?::Betsy Connell: I'm sorry...::Paul Holland: Why should you be? My wife IS a mental case. Please remember that, Miss Connell. Particularly when some of the foolish people on the island start regaling you with the local legends. You'll find superstition a contagious thing. Some people let it get the better of them. I don't think you will.::Betsy Connell: No.::Paul Holland: Come along. I'll introduce you to Dr. Maxwell and your patient.
Betsy Connell: [first lines, narration] I walked with a zombie... sounds strange to say.
Dr. Maxwell: She makes a beautiful zombie doesn't she?
Paul Holland: I want you back in Canada.
Betsy Connell: [Noticing Alma having difficulty trying to lead a stubborn horse] Alma, try it this way... Turn your back on him. You see, that's the way it is with a horse: you can't lead him and look at him at the same time.::Alma - Maid: [Chuckles] Sounds sorta' man-like, don't it?
Ti-Joseph: Oh Lord God most holy, deliver them from the bitter pains of eternal death. The woman was a wicked woman, and she was dead in her own life. Yea lord, dead in the selfishness of her spirit. And the man followed her. Her steps led him down to evil, her feet took hold on death. Forgive him oh Lord, who knowest the secret of all hearts. Yea Lord, pity them who are dead, and give peace and happiness to the living.
Broken Strings
Let me hold you
For the last time
It's the last chance to feel again
But you broke me
Now I can't feel anything
When I love you,
It's so untrue
I can't even convince myself
When I'm speaking,
It's the voice of someone else
Oh it tears me up
I try to hold on, but it hurts too much
I try to forgive, but it's not enough to make it all
okay
You can't play on broken strings
You can't feel anything that your heart don't want to
feel
I can't tell you something that ain't real
Oh the truth hurts
And lies worse
How can I give anymore
When I love you a little less than before
Oh what are we doing
We are turning into dust
Playing house in the ruins of us
Running back through the fire
When there's nothing left to save
It's like chasing the very last train when it's too
late
Oh it tears me up
I try to hold on, but it hurts too much
I try to forgive, but it's not enough to make it all
okay
You can't play on broken strings
You can't feel anything that your heart don't want to
feel
I can't tell something that ain't real
Well the truth hurts,
And lies worse
How can I give anymore
When I love you a little less than before
But we're running through the fire
When there's nothing left to save
It's like chasing the very last train
When we both know it's too late (too late)
You can't play on broken strings
You can't feel anything that your heart don't want to
feel
I cant tell you something that ain't real
Well truth hurts,
And lies worse
How can I give anymore
When I love you a little less than before
Let me hold you for the last time
