(The gérants are appointed for a six-year term, which may be renewed).Lagardère's general partners are Arnaud Lagardère, son of the late Jean-Luc Lagardère, who set up this structure, and Arjil Commanditée-ARCO (ARCO), a company that the Lagardères control.
The instrumental accompaniment calls not only for Italian violins but also for the vigüela de arco, a bowed instrument with a medieval Iberian lineage, while the opera's fetching sequence of arias and choruses mixes Italian da-capo arias with Spanish-style songs that incorporate haunting miniature refrains.
This seemingly unassailable position made Arcos an important base for the Moors after Córdoba and Sevilla fell to the troops of the Reconquista.
Across the iconic Rialto bridge, on the other side of the Grand Canal and tucked down an alleyway, is tiny All' Arco (Calle Arco, San Polo 436, lunchtime only).
Bruce Duff, vice president for sales and professional services at Arcos, a software company that serves the utilities industry, says his firm toned down its annual user conference in 2009 and 2010.
According to Arial Ávila, a conflict analyst with Nuevo Arco Iris, a think-tank, Mr Cano had managed to build a consensus among the FARC's leadership to seek peace talks with the government.
In northern Europe, songs intended to accompany dance could also be played on the fiddle, and in Spain the vihuela de arco filled a similar function.
For fans of Carmen Miranda, the singer and actress who was Hollywood's top female box office attraction in the 1940s, this particular block is a pilgrimage site: though born in Portugal, she spent her early years in the shadow of the Arco, in a boardinghouse that her mother ran at Travessa do Comércio 13.
Launch off the 5,380 feet (1,615 meters) summit of Cerro Arco on a Mendoza Paragliding Tour and soar over the Andean landscape, or head to Colombia, where you can gaze down at the matchbox-sized houses of the city on a Bogotá Paragliding Adventure or swoop over alpine valleys and craggy mountains on a Medellín Paragliding Tour.
That rate has stayed at 18.4 cents for 20 years, and I'm sure Grover Norquist would chain himself to an Arco pump before he would let lawmakers pass a tax hike, or introduce a new sales tax.
