NEWS ❘ LES INFOS the number of 281
communes in France with the name of Saint-Martin
OLYMPIC WATCH – PARIS 2024
FANTASY OPENING
A newcomer to the 9th arrondissement of Paris, La Fantaisie hotel, roof-top bar and spa promises ‘the dream of the garden brought to life’, inspired by the story of master gardeners Jean and Jacques Cadet, who transformed the area during the reign of Charles IX.
www.lafantaisie.com
Swimming in the Seine in Paris will soon be legal for the fi rst time in a century
TICKETY-TOCK
A new study by Stasher has ranked 99 global tourist attractions to fi nd out what’s worth visiting and what’s not. The top-ranked destination in the world on Tik-Tok was Disneyland Paris, with tagged posts being viewed a staggering 7.9 billion times.
blog.stasher.com
MAKING A SPLASH SAVING THE SEINE
When President Emanuel Macron launched the Olympic Games countdown this spring, he said that ‘one of the most beautiful gifts that the Paris 2024 will leave behind is making the Seine and Marne rivers fi t for swimming again’. The mammoth effort to turn around the once heavily polluted waterways requires a €1.4bn investment, half of it provided by the public purse. Once the project is fi nished – by next spring, if all goes to plan – Parisians will be legally allowed to swim in the river for the fi rst time in a century, authorities having banned it in 1923 because of high levels of pollution. “Swimming at the foot of the Eiffel Tower will be very romantic,” said Emmanuel Grégoire, deputy mayor of Paris in charge of urban planning.
C’EST PAS VRAI! STRANGE BUT TRUE TALES FROM FRANCE Wonderfully weird happenings across France
WHAT INFLATION?
A Parisian institution, Le Bar Fleuri, on Rue du Plateau in the 19th
arrondissement, hasn’t raised the €6.86 price of its poulet-frites dish in 20 years.
ALL TOGETHER In an unprecedented experience in France, 1,000 singers answered the call for a performance in Montpellier organised by the Opera Orchestra.
NO WAVES
Three-star hotel Domaine de la Briandais, near Saint-Nazaire,
offers a tech-free oasis with no wifi , no Bluetooth, and all mobile devices on airplane mode.
SAINTLY HIKE Ann Sieben, a 59-year-old
American pilgrim, is visiting all the places named after Saint-Martin in France on foot in a trek set to take more than one year.
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