The ubiquity of bedbugs on trains, subways and airports
The widespread detection of bedbugs in France by October 2023 is causing fear among travellers and becoming a sore spot for the government as Paris prepares to host next year's Olympics.
Users social networks post personnel showing insects crawling on high-speed trains and the Paris Metro, and there are plenty of bedbug articles online in cinemas and even Charles de Gaulle Airport.
Banning electric scooters
In early April 2023, it became known that the rental of electric scooters would be banned in Paris. This is explained by the desire of local authorities to improve safety on the streets and roads of the French capital. Read more here.
Real estate
2021: Average monthly rent for a one-room apartment in central Paris - $1,422
Средняя стоимость месячной аренды однокомнатной квартиры в центре столиц countriesEurope, October 2021
The first public film show of Auguste and Louis Lumiere in 1895 at the Grand Cafe in Paris on Boulevard Capuchinoc (yes, it is Capuchinoc)
Tourism
2022: Paris leads cities in tourism revenue
On January 18, 2023, the World Tourism and Travel Council (WTTC) published the results of a study according to which Paris in 2022 ranked first in the world in terms of tourism's contribution to the country's economy. It's more like this here.
Ecology
2018: Tree cover - 20%
Data for 2018
History
2023: BlackRock office seized by protesters. Video
The office of the world's largest investment fund BlackRock in April 2023 was seized by protesters in Paris.
2022: King Mohamed VI of Morocco filmed drunk on video
In August 2022, a video appeared in the media in which the Moroccan king Mohammed VI is completely drunk, in Paris in the company of his friends, the Azaytar brothers and under the protection of his bodyguards.
1971
Philippe Petit's "Walk" Between the Spires of Notre Dame, Paris, 1971.
1969
Salvador Dali walks with an anteater through the streets of Paris. 1969.
1968
A street in the Latin Quarter after overnight clashes between students and police. Paris, France, May 1968.
1966
In one of the Paris cafes. France, 1966.
1963
An original approach in one of the Paris nightclubs: visitors themselves choose to which music they want to dance and it is she who sounds in their headphones. Paris, 1963
1960: Final of the European Football Championship with the participation of the USSR national team
Goalkeeper of the USSR national team Lev Yashin. The photo was taken in the tunnel of the Parc des Princes stadium before the start of the final match of the European Championship. Paris, 1960
1958
People waiting for a bus, Paris, 1958. Photo by Eduard Boob.
The first official bikini show. Paris. France. 03.06.1946.
1940: German occupation
Adolf Hitler gives honors at Napoleon's grave, Paris, 1940.
Eiffel Tower during the German occupation. The caption: "Germany wins on all fronts."
Gliding on Ice Bars, Paris, Place de la Concorde, 1940.
1933
Lamppost in Paris, 1933.
1932
Workers paint the Eiffel Tower, 1932.
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Women at the competition "The most elegant style of smoking" in Paris. 1932.
A lesbian couple in Le Monocle, Paris. 1932.
1929
Newspaper salesman, Paris, 1929.
1923
1914
Dr. Maxime Menard conducts a chest fluoroscopy in the radiology department of the Hospital Cochin in Paris, 1914.
1912
Austrian tailor Franz Reichelt began developing a suit that allowed the aviator to escape in the event of leaving the plane in July 1910. Several early experiments with mannequins seemed successful, but the successful result was unstable. Reichelt believed that the small height of his balcony on the fifth floor was to blame. In 1912, after repeated petitions, he finally managed to get permission from the authorities to experiment on the Eiffel Tower.
February 4, 1912 he appeared for the experiment. Those present were shocked to learn that he was not going to use the dummy, but would jump himself. It was not possible to dissuade Reichelt; he went out on the parapet and jumped. The parachute did not open, the inventor died.
The latest photo of tailor Franz Reichelt before the deadly jump from the Eiffel Tower in Paris wearing a parachute cloak.
It is sad that although parachutes did not yet exist at the beginning of Reichelt's work, at the time of the fatal experiment, Russian Gleb Kotelnikov had already invented a parachute-pack, and successful jumps had already been made in the United States with the help of dome parachutes.
1910
Disposal of urban garbage in the river Seine, 1910, Paris.
One of the first limousines, Paris, 1910.
Flood
Pedestrian bridges during floods in Paris, 1910
Paris Metro station during a flood, 1910
Flooding in Paris washed away the library. France. 1910
1908
Cigarette butt collector, Paris, 1900s.
1900: World's Fair
World Exhibition in Paris, 1900.
1898
Attractions at the Fair of Paris, 1898
Sweepers on the streets of Paris, late 19th century
1895
Train wreck at Montparnasse station in Paris, 1895.
Montparnasse station crash, 1895.
1890
Montmartre. Paris. 1890
Paris, 1890
1889: Completion of the Eiffel Tower
Paris, 1889
Engineer Alexander Gustav Eiffel poses on the completed Eiffel Tower in 1889
1887: Construction of the Eiffel Tower begins
Construction of the Eiffel Tower. Paris. France. 1880s.
The Eiffel Tower was built for two years, two months and five days - this was a record for that time and this kind of building. It was officially opened on March 31, 1889.
Groundbreaking of the Eiffel Tower, 1887.
1884
Statue of Liberty in Paris before being shipped to the United States. 1884.
1880
Workshop in Paris. Making the Statue of Liberty. 1880
1878
Balloon in central Paris, 1878.
1875
Construction of the Statue of Liberty hand in the studio. 1875 Paris. France.
Public toilet in Paris, France, 1875
1868: The first ever cycling race
The first ever cycling race was held on May 31, 1868 in the Parc Saint-Cloud, Paris, at a distance of 1200 meters.
1686: Le Procope Cafe opens
Paris's oldest cafe for 2022, Le Procope. It has been operating since 1686. At various times, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Denis Diderot, Honoré de Balzac, Victor Hugo and Napoleon I Bonaparte came here for a cup of coffee.