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Paul Myers

Paris revellers to ring in the New Year footloose and car free

An estimated one million people gathered along the Champs- Elysées in Paris to celebrate the start of 2023. REUTERS - SARAH MEYSSONNIER

Pedestrians will rule the streets of Paris on New Year's Eve and into the early hours of 1 January under an ambitious "car-free city" scheme set up to celebrate the end of 2023.

Under the city hall's "Paris Respire" project, the first, second, third and fourth arrondissements of the capital are already closed to most vehicles between 10am and 6pm one Sunday a month.

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