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Paris to allow swimming in the Seine for the first time in a century

The city is cleaning up the river in time for the Olympic Games next year

Evening Standard

Biles, Ledecky, McLaughlin-Levrone all look for Olympic encores in Paris

The city itself will be one of the brightest stars at the Paris Olympics, with ceremonies on the Seine, beach volleyball under the Eiffel Tower and a marathon route that passes through Versailles

The Independent UK

France’s main grain port of Rouen adjusts to impacts of war in Ukraine

France’s primary grain export port is 100 kilometres away from the open sea – close to farmers, who have seen fluctuations in demand for wheat and other grains since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Russia’s recent pullout of the Black Sea grain deal, right at the start of France’s…

Radio France Internationale

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Paris practices for 2024 Olympics opening ceremony on the Seine

Around 60 boats took part in a rehearsal on the river Seine for the opening ceremony of next year's Paris Olympics, which will be the first in history to kick off the games on water.

Radio France Internationale

Olympic fever: Will Paris be ready for the 2024 Games?

Olympic fever is starting to crank up, a year ahead of Paris hosting the world's biggest sporting event. The French capital is determined ensure everything will be set fair for the opening ceremony on July 26, 2024. Although authorities say they're confident all the infrastructure will be ready for the…

France 24

Inside Dior’s luxury floating spa cruise on the river Seine

Wellness cruise? Check. Dior? Check. Amy Francombe on this summer’s chicest spa day on the river Seine

Evening Standard

Swimming in the Seine by 2025: Paris mayor announces three locations

BUSINESS DAILY – Monday, 10.07.2023: We take a look at how the investment of €1.4 billion to clean up the Seine river is beginning to bear fruit. The Paris mayor's office has unveiled the three sections of the Seine that will be safe to swim in by 2025, in a…

France 24

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Seine to open for public swimming after Paris Olympics, mayor says

Three monitored river bathing zones in the French capital will open in 2025, said the mayor, Anne Hidalgo

The Guardian - UK

Rogue swimmers reject Seine pollution fears as Olympic swimmers prepare to take the plunge

While the 2024 Olympics will stage events in the Seine river from the ornate Alexandre III bridge, a proud declaration of the waterway's environmental renewal, many swimmers in the capital are already defying decades-long bans to take the plunge.

France 24

Chanel haute couture makes a subdued ode to Parisian elegance in fall-winter collection

The cobblestoned banks of the Seine served as the stage for Chanel’s fall-winter runway show and celebrated the soul of Paris

The Independent UK

Chanel haute couture show is a postcard from idealised Paris

A charming cobblestoned stretch of the Seine is the scene for ‘sophistication and simplicity’

The Guardian - UK

Podcast: wheat on the Seine, denim goes home to Nimes, forgotten first woman filmmaker

How Rouen, a city on the Seine, far from the open sea, became France's largest grain port; denim production returns to its place of birth in Nimes; and the story of Alice Guy, the world's first woman director, forgotten by history.

Radio France Internationale

How to follow Paris’s secret Bièvre river to see a different side to the French capital

Thought the Seine was the only river in town? Think again, says Ulrike Lemmin-Woolfrey, who suggests you take a tour of the city’s alternative, hidden waterway

The Independent UK

‘The first feeling is fear’: the daredevil group bringing ropewalking and climbing to the theatre

It started with a tightrope walk over the Seine: now Rachid Ouramdane has coaxed highliner Nathan Paulin and free climber Nina Caprez into sharing their high-adrenaline experiences and unique relationship to the elements

The Guardian - UK

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Art Institute’s new Van Gogh exhibit a showcase for works we barely know

A new exhibition takes the first-ever in-depth look at artworks created by Van Gogh and four of his fellow Post-Impressionists in Asnières and other nearby locales along the Seine River just outside of Paris.

The Guardian - UK

‘The cycling was a breeze’: following the Seine through Normandy

The Seine à Vélo cycle route follows minor roads to major attractions, including a medieval chateau, Monet’s garden and Rouen cathedral

Radio France Internationale

Turning the tide: Olympic organisers hope to make murky Seine swimmable again

A costly and complex clean-up is resuscitating the River Seine in the French capital just in time for the 2024 Paris Olympics. The city and its region aim to turn the Seine's clouded waters into a venue for outdoor swimming events.

The Independent UK

Fancy a dip? An Olympic reboot for Paris' toxic River Seine

A costly and complex clean-up is resuscitating the River Seine just in time for it to play a starring role in the 2024 Paris Olympics

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The Independent UK

David Mylchreest: Normandy veteran and one of the first Allied soldiers to cross the Seine in 1944

At just 20 years old, Mylchreest helped liberate the key town of Vernon and took part in some of the fiercest battles of the Normandy campaign

The Guardian - UK

Paris in the springtime: 10 of the best hotels with a view

From buzzy rooftop bars taking in the Eiffel Tower to sunsets on the Seine, these are some of the best vantage points looking out over this ‘timeless town’

The Independent UK

Macron launches 500-day countdown to Paris Olympics

French President Emmanuel Macron has launched the 500-day countdown to the 2024 Paris Olympics and Paralympics

Radio France Internationale

Paris Olympics organisers urged to cut numbers for river Seine opening ceremony

Transport chiefs for the zones around Paris are urging 2024 Olympic Games organisers to limit the crowds for the lavish opening ceremony along the river Seine to 500,000.

Bangkok Post

500 days before the Paris Olympics, the race is on

PARIS - In 500 days on Tuesday, the 2024 Summer Olympics will burst into life in Paris as the teams float down the River Seine on barges in a unique opening ceremony.

The Guardian - UK

On the Adamant review – Berlin winner offers art and soul aboard a floating Parisian day-care centre

Nicolas Philibert’s warm and sympathetic documentary about a boat for mental-health patients on the Seine is a worthy winner of the Berlin film festival’s Golden Bear

Radio France Internationale

French documentary wins top prize at Berlin film festival

French director Nicolas Philibert's documentary "On the Adamant", about a floating day-care centre on the Seine in Paris, won the Berlin film festival's Golden Bear top prize on Saturday.

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